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*SETTLING IN TO OUR NEW PLACE..
..just three blocks away from our old one. I’m just starting to catch up on many of the book orders and correspondence. Thanks for your patience.

The wifey is coming along, and that’s why she’s the subject of this week’s K Chronicles strip. I think she’s just starting to move into the phase of the enjoyable part of pregnancy…we’ll see.

*YES, THE PRICES GOT RAISED IN THE BOOKSTORE..
..after I took a few orders to mail out and saw that I grossly under-priced them when you factor “postage and handling” into it. Those who ordered early got a nice deal. The rest of you: FEH!!

*SAN FRANCISCO BOOK RELEASE PARTY BOOKED!!
It’ll be at the world famous Cartoon Art Museum (655 Mission St. near 3rd in S.F.) on Sat. March 29th from 6-8pm. Nothing too crazy. A little wine, a little beer, some weirdos… I’ll be spinning some of my favorite San Francisco tall tales, and also give some anecdotes about my first year in Los Angeles.

For more info on how to get there, go to http://www.cartoonart.org.

*WIZARD WORLD LOS ANGELES THIS WEEKEND…
I’ll be attending my first Los Angeles convention this weekend. Wizard World LA is the little sister to the big Chicago convention, and I don’t know what to expect. I’m hoping it’ll be worth the three straight days I’ll be sitting there in Artist’s Alley. I’m sharing a table with David Malki and I’ll have plenty o’ copies of the latest book “I Left My Arse in San Francisco”, so come on out of the sun and say hello.

LETTERS/EMAILS OF THE WEEK…

Mr. Knight-

I’ve been reading you on Salon for some time now, and I just wanted to write
to thank you for an excellent strip. I always enjoy reading your strips and
I like to think I even catch some of your in jokes (“Are you Aaron
Macgruder?”). As a longtime comic reader, your style and content are always
refreshing. I look forward to each strip, and I read Salon’s comic page
just for you and Tom Tomorrow.

Keep up the great work!

Sincerely,

B. K.

Greetings Keef,

I was just wondering if a guy already owned your first three books, if the new Dark Horse Omnibus held anything new for me?

Thanks,

J. B.
Baton Rouge, LA

(good question!! the dark horse collection comprises of the first four k chronicles books (sheep, marker, strange and passion), three of which are now out-of-print, in a lavish 8 and a half by 11 inch package with personal notes and anecdotes by yours truly about almost every strip, an introduction by Kyle Baker, and several pages of sketches. It is truly the cat’s bottom and a must -have for every k chronicles reader!!-kk)

You can pre-order the Dark Horse collection right here.

Keith,

I lived in the City back in the late 80s and have been a fan of your work for a long time (bought a couple of your early books). Haven’t checked out your strip in a while though, and in doing so today was surprised to discover you’ve moved to L.A. Your Jan. 2007 reminiscences on your blog about living in SF make me homesick all over again. Wish I could talk my husband into moving back there! Hope L.A. life is just as much fun. Keep up the good work!

best,

L.
Athens, GA 30612
(the state that chose Obama and Huckaby in its primary….)

Dear Keith,

Although we’ve never met, we’ve corresponded for years… just wanted to tell you that
your concept of Life’s Small Victories has kept my spirits high through a shitrain of
karma.

Yesterday, I fixed my mom’s kitchen faucet. It was a hundred-dollar Moen, salvaged from
my collection of hardware, and it leaked. So I replaced an O-ring. No luck. I
replaced another O-ring. No luck. And when I came to final O-ring, I prayed not to
the god of plumbing but to the idea of life’s small victories — success. All I
wanted was for the faucet NOT TO LEAK. And, it didn’t.

So, never doubt that your Keeftoons change the world for the better. Yesterday, they got
me through. They guided me through the valley of the shadow of Doubt, and helped me
fix a simple plumbing problem that would have really hurt me, if I couldn’t prevail. I
would have felt like an abject failure; instead, I won one of LSV. Thank you, Keith.

Toon on,

J.

(nice!!-kk)

Keef,

My 20 year old daughter is a student at Faculte Saint-Jean, the French campus, at the
University of Alberta. She and 8 other Residence Assistants have flown to New Orleans to
work with Habitat for Humanity in the town of Thibideau rebuilding. I just received this
email from her, thought you’d appreciate her views.

“We actually did go to the lower 9th ward today. I’m just so mad at this moment. You
seriously just drive over a bridge and then you just see all this leveled bare land. You
are in this lovely area that is rebuilt and touristy then you drive 5 minutes and there
are houses that look exactly the same as they did 2 years ago.
I’ll give you a call tomorrow. I’m so mad at the United States.”

So, here we have a 20 year-old white Canadian student, the daughter of an ex-pat
American, seeing the fruit of a policy that began over three hundred years on the shores
of Africa, the auction blocks of Charleston and the fields of countless plantations
rotting on the soil in one of the wealthiest nations ever. Sad.

Your friend,
D.

Dear Keith:
I am sitting here waiting for my teriyaki chicken and rice bowl and considering it a personal victory of restraint that I am leaving you and your wife in peace. I wanted to tell you how brilliant your strip is, but you already know that, right?

Of course, if I see you again, you will totally have to deal with some adulation. Sorry!

-D.

(the above email is a lie, for he came up to us as we were leaving the restaurant. oh, how i hate it when people come up to me and say nice things..;) -kk)

oh!! and the restaurant we were in is my favorite in all of the city of culver: tokyo 7-7 is so perfect, from the $2.35 breakfast specials before 11am, to the autographed photo of erik estrada on the wall, this spot is the coolest and hardest to find place in culver city!!

Keef~

I have a small favor to ask, would you consider please, sparing a few lines of space on your blog, to help get the word out about this site. It’s called freerice.com, where you play a word game, for every word you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Food Program. It’s a really simple way for people who may feel like they don’t have time to help others.

The site also explains how much each country is contributing to this program, we are at the bottom, and a form letter people can copy and send to their government, asking them to increase their participation. Anybody who has 5 minutes to spare on the internet, should be on this site. It’s a quick and easy way to make a difference.

Thanks!
G.

(just cuz i posted this message above doesn’t mean i’m gonna post a message about your pet cause…g. is a close personal friend of mine that i used to rob old ladies with, so i’m making an exception.-kk)