*GREETINGS FROM THE WORLD'S WORST BLOGGER...
So I'm still trying to find out when my new daily, the Knight Life, will be launching in the Washington Post and the Boston Herald. I'll post it as soon as I find out.

Meanwhilst, it has started in the Detroit News and will be launching in Albany, New York, where I gave the worst interview of my life. I kept on talking about Detroit, then I realized two-thirds of the way through that I was talking to a reporter from Albany.

Wanna get away?

The posters are slugging it out on the Sacramento Bee's forum about the strip. If you want to put in a good word, head on over to the site by clicking here.

*I'LL BE IN SANTA ROSA AND SAN FRANCISCO THIS WEEKEND!!
Doing the artist in residence thing at the great Schulz Museum on Sunday May 18th from 1-3pm. I'll be drawing and signing copies of my new K Chronicles collection, I Left My Arse in San Francisco.

My Arse will be in San Francisco, Tuesday May 20th at Intersection for the Arts. It'll be a graphic novel panel sponsored by the JCCSF and will feature Miriam Libicki, Ariel Schrag, Jaime Cortez and yours truly. Slideshow and panel starts at 7pm.

Attend both and win a prize!!

*LETTERS/EMAILS OF THE WEEK..

When I flipped to the comic section this morning I
nearly flipped out in surprise. They are test-running
your strip in our paper!

I've followed your strip on Salon, bought all the
K-Chronicle books and am gearing up to get the latest
one. I sincerely hope your new strip will catch on
with the readership... tho fearfully I suspect
Sacramentans are "Garfield" people. But I went
straight to the paper's web forums to post my props,
and saw a whole bunch of others voting "yes" for
Knight Life in 08! Here's hoping!

Also, congrats on the Solo Show @ Cartoon Art. Totally
swinging down there in June to support your work.

L. aka C.

Hi Keef,

I am stoked to open my Sac Bee and see you in the pages. Congratulations! I wore my Keef on the Throne t-shirt today as a sign of support, and I will tell the Bee that this is the most brilliant strip I have ever read and will cancel my subscription if they don't pick you up for good -- even if you left SF for LA.

It's got to be tough to break into the daily paper. Some of your work that are my favorites deal with some of the less than family friendly topics. But don't forget the politics. And we love our babies; do you have your own little diaper soiler yet?

Best of luck to you, and hoping to see you every day,

m.

K,

"Once upon a time in the play ground"

You should win a Pulitzer Prize for that one!
I am behind the curve, I should have said these years ago!

Much Love for what you do,

A.

(going waaay back for that one. before the war started.-kk)

Keef,
I've been a fan of yours for some time, reading your work on
Salon.com. When I saw "The Knight Life" in the pull-down on
comics.com, I was expecting... well, some sort of midieval
Wizard-of-Id thing. Figured I'd check it out. Didn't even have to
see the byline to know that I would now be seeing daily goodness from
you.

(Adds to bookmarks)

I must admit, though, that I am DYING to see how far you push the rules of
syndication.

Rock on, man.

--C.

(i'm dying to see how far I can push it, too.-kk)

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*SAN FRANCISCO RELEASE PARTY WRAP-UP..
It's taken a week for me to recover from my trip to San Francisco for the "Arse" release party. Special thanks to the Cartoon Art Museum and Andrew Farago for making everything run oh-so-smooth. And thanks to all the folks that came out and bought books

If you haven't grabbed the latest K Chronicles collection, act fast!! They're signed and numbered and only available in the store section of this website.

And yes, #666 is already taken.

*EMAILS/LETTERS OF THE WEEK..

Keef,

Just wanted you to know that you're my favorite comic strip artist of all
time (my 54 years of it, anyhow). You are funny, sensitive, sweet,
talented, kind-hearted -- and you radiate the true love of God in a very
special way. I get a blessing, along with my laughs, when I read your
strips.

Some of them, of course, are the inverse of funny. I printed off the strip
titled "How Not to Start the New Year" and taped it on the wall over my
computer because I went through some of the same thing back in October. It
blesses me to see that you were so THERE for your wife, and I pray that both
of you -- and your child -- are healthy, prosperous and happy.

This Monday, after the eagle flies, I'm going to start buying your books.

Brightest, warmest blessings to you!

W.

(letters like this make it worth drawing comics!!-kk)
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Hello, Keith,

I'll send a money order for one of every book and cd that you have. By my count that
comes to $148 for 10 items, including $10 for ten items.

You really are an excellent artist. Many peoples' cartoons don't hit the target, or are
too vague, or lack punch. With yours, every frame and word counts, you stay on track, and
you hit the target, and you do it all so elegantly!

There are very few political cartoonists who are worth their pay these days. My
favourites are Ben Sargent, Ted Rall (except that he can't draw well), and Tom the
Dancing Bug.

You handle complex issues without getting lost, and you're right up there now, in my
opinion, with the best of them, including Bill Watterson, Carl Barks, Dr. Seuss.

It'll be interesting to hear your band and your singing/rapping, as well.

So; are the items in stock and my calculations correct?

J.
Quebec
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(folks!! passion of the keef and dances with sheep are now in stock fro a very limited time!! order now!!-kk)

Keef!

So it's 2 am and I am working in the Graveyard. In come a couple of guys off the street, one of them says "Is this the hostel Keith Knight used to work at" I tell them no, he used to work Downtown, he's a good friend of mine. He then asks if I'm the one he wrote the dead cat story about, I said I am.

It really made my day! I can't believe anybody remembers that story, that was....years and years ago. It was funny too, that these two guys would be wandering around the Tenderloin in the dead of night, stumble upon the City Center Hostel and find somebody whose story made them laugh a long time ago.

Cheers!

G.

(nice!! that's my man, greg at the city center hostel in san francisco. the best hostel in the city.-kk)
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Hello Keith,

I've been a major comics fan for 40+ years. I receive about 150 strips a
day. I own hundreds of books of cartoon art and history. So it is with
some authority that I can say that K-Chronicles is an excellent strip and
you are a great cartoonist. (Ignore the fact it is April 1. I sincerely
mean what I say.)

But what has happened to the Chronicles? It has not updated on GoComics.com
since September. I couldn't find anything newer on your website, and it's
too difficult finding anything on Buzzle. So what's happening/happened?

The downside of loving comics is the sadness when a great strip ceases.
Sometimes they must when nature runs its inevitable course (as when T.K.
Ryan retired from Tumbleweeds), and sometimes they end from tragedy (as when
Doug Marlette of Kudzu was killed), and sometimes the creators just get
tired of all the work for so little reward (Citizen Dog, Big Top, Bo Nanas)
or even just tired of the fame and money, hard as that may be to believe
(Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side). Too bad that so many strips (Peanuts,
Dennis the Menace, Nancy, etc., etc.) don't know when to quit and stop
denying newspaper space to better strips.


If there is any way K-Chronicles continues, this fan will be reading it.
Whatever is happening, I wish you the best.

P.
Devon, PA, USA

(there IS a lot happening, but I am still drawing the k chronicles. my contract was up at gocomics, and I signed a contract with another site that should start running it soon. meanwhilst, buzzle.com and salon.com are the places to go to see the strip weekly...though i hope to have them running regularly at this site soon.-kk)

*THIS WEEK'S K CHRONICLES..
What can I say? I was touched by a Love is strip. And not in a Catholic priest sort of way.
Anyhoo, if you don't think Love is can be funny, check out these strips.

Ha!!

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