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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
 


*SURE, THING'S ARE LOOKING GOOD...
..for November 4th, but you gotta remember: This is America. There's gonna be election fraud all across the country. Votes will be lost. Voters will be deceived. Obama's gonna have to be leading in the polls by 25% if we wants to squeak by with a win.

Political Video of the weak.


*SURE, THINGS ARE LOOKING BAD...
..as far as the economy goes..But is it really such a bad thing?
I was listening to a radio show where people were calling in to share what they were doing to deal with the bad economy. Folks are riding bikes. Eating at home a lot more. Getting rid of cable. Going to the library. Hanging their clothes out to dry. Telling their kids they can't have everything they see. Saving their money. It's really gonna change they way a lot of Americans live their lives.
So it ain't all bad.

*ANYHOO..
We here are K Chronicles.com ink are hard at work putting together the 2009 calendar to bring to APE in San Francisco. I'm just waiting to get an okay to use some Knight Life strips in their too.

*THE FETUS FORMERLY KNOWN AS LIL' GRAVY..
..continues to astound with feats of amazement. He's discovered his hands and is trying to figure out how to pick locks and noses. He's also suffering from a scratchy head-rash from hell. Anyone have any ideas?

*KNIGHT LIFE DAILY COMIC STRIP UPDATE..
Don't know if you follow the strip at my website or the syndicate website. But they recently started coloring the dailies at the syndicate website, and a few of 'em aren't quite up-to-snuff (including one that depicted Kerstin's German dad as a black man). But I've just sent off Keef's Ten Color Commandments off to the syndicate, and the colors will improve soon...

Hey!! Let the Washington Post know you want to see the Knight Life in their Sunday pages permanently!! Go here and let 'em know!!

Cheap ass move of the week: Canter's Deli had an anniversary special today: Corned Beef sandwiches for 60 cents!!

Ciao!!

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posted by keef at 12:22 AM


Saturday, July 12, 2008
 
IN THIS ISSUE:
*WHO’S YO’ DADDY?!!
*500 PAGE DARK HORSE IN STORES NOW!!
*KEEF SLIDESHOW AT COMIC-CON
*KEEF EXHIBIT AT CARTOON ART MUSEUM
*KNIGHT LIFE BEING TESTED IN SAN FRAN, B’HAM
*KEEF NOMINATED FOR 2ND HARVEY
*KEEF CARTOON WORKSHOP AT HAMMER MUSEUM

Dearest K Chronicles/(th)ink/Knight Life reader,

Holy @#%!! I’M A FATHER!!
I won’t bother with the details, but wanted to let y’all know that the fetus formerly known as Lil Gravy entered the building last week. He’s a big boy, and will be kicking my ass in no time.

Due to a few complications, he remains in the hospital. But we hope to have him home soon.

If there EVER was a time to order stuff, now would be that time.

*THE 500-PAGE K CHRONICLES COLLECTION...
..arrived in stores the day my son was born!! (great timing, cuz the book is dedicated to him Dark Horse has collected the first four K Chronicles collections and reformatted them nice and big, I added notes and sketches, and Kyle Baker did the introduction. What it amounts to is the must-have book of 2008!!
You can order the book thru my site (http://www.kchronicles.com), but I won’t be selling it outta my crib like the other books. So if you want ‘em signed, hit me up at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con.

If you have the book already, please consider posting an online review at Amazon and all them other places.

Also keep in mind that the 500 page collection DOES NOT include the strips contained in the latest K Chronicles compendium “I Left My Arse in San Francisco”. So there.

*SLIDESHOW AT COMIC-CON (Thurs. July 24th Noon-1pm, rm 4)..
Not only will I be signing that big ol’ Dark Horse book at this year’s Comic Con, I’ll also be doing an all-new slideshow on Thursday, July 24th at noon (room 4). The panel’s called “FROM THE K CHRONICLES TO THE KNIGHT LIFE: KEITH KNIGHT” and .I’ll chronicle the development of all of my strips, present a preview of the Complete K Chronicles collection by Dark Horse, do a little drawing demo, and show some baby pics!!.

I'll also be doing horrible caricatures to raise money for the Cartoon Art Museum on Friday July 25th from Noon -1pm..

SEE YOU THERE!!
REMEMBER: COMIC-CON GOES FROM WEDS.,7/23-SUN 7/27. AND YOU CAN ONLY REGISTER FOR IT ONLINE.

*KEEF CARTOON ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION
From now until Nov. 9th, the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is hosting a 40 piece exhibition of my work. Starting with stuff from high school, up until the launch of my daily strip.

I hope to make it up there for an official opening in August. In the meantime, go check out the show and email me about it. Also, can someone take photos?
(C.A.M. is located at 655 Mission St. in San Francisco…http://www.cartoonart.org)

*KNIGHT LIFE GEING TESTED IN S.F,. CHRONICLE/BIRMINGHAM/ MORE..
Can you take a minute out to vote my daily comic in at the following places?

San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/12/DDCOMICS12.DTL

Birmingham News:
http://blog.al.com/bn/2008/07/what_do_you_think_of_knight_li.html

Washington Post:
http://comicsurvey.washpost.com/survey.cfm

Raleigh News Observer:.:
http://share.triangle.com/node/3528?page=63

Orange County Register :
http://ocregister.upickem.net/engine/ApprovedSubmissions.aspx?contestid=1864

Baton Rouge Advocate:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/includes/comic-survey.html


Thanks!!

*K CHRONICLES NOMINTED FOR 2ND HARVEY AWARD!!
Nice!! The K Chronicles has again been nominated for Best Comic Strip in 2008. Industry professionals can download a ballot at http://www.harveyawards.org.
Let’s shock the industry one more time!!

*CARTOONING WORKSHOP AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM
On Sunday, July 20th, I’ll be conducting a cartooning workshop for kids aged 8-12 at the Hammer Museum here in Los Angeles, courtesy of 826la. The 2-hour class will cover the basics of doing a comic strip. Space is limited for the class, so act now!! Go to http://www.826la.org for more details and sign-up info.

IN MY MIX:
*Maconium
*Gigantic, milk-filled breasts
*DEADLINES

http://www.kchronicles.com
http://www.knightlifecomic.com

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posted by keef at 12:43 AM


Wednesday, June 25, 2008
 
*K CHRONICLES NOMINATED FOR A 2008 HARVEY AWARD!!
Whoa!! I could really get used to this!! The K Chronicles has been nominated for Best Comic Strip for a third year in a row. The Harvey Awards are named after the late great Harvey Kurtzman, whose work was a big influence on the K Chronicles.

Lost the first year, won the second. But I hear the 3rd time is also the charm, so all you folks in the industry, please download and fill out a ballot here. Let's shock the world once again!!

*THANKS TO EVERYONE..
..who participated in the online Q & A at the Washington Post online last week. A lot of great questions, and a coupla weird ones. You can still check out the interview here.

*FROM THE K CHRONICLES TO THE KNIGHT LIFE: SPOTLIGHT ON KEITH KNIGHT..
..is the title of the panel Ill be doing at this year's San Diego Comic Con on Thursday, July 24th at 4:30pm. I'll be doing my world-famous slideshow that'll highlight work featured in my new Dark Horse 500 page collection, and a look into how I developed the Knight Life, my new daily blazing a trail across newspapers nationwide and beyond (including Honolulu and Trinidad!!)!!

*KEITH KNIGHT COMIC ART EXHIBITION AT THE CARTOON ART MUSEUM IS NOW OPEN FOR VIEWING..
..in glorious San Francisco from now until November 9th. If you go see it, take some pics and send em my way. I won't be up there for a while. For more info on it, go to http://www.cartoonart.org.

*LETTERS/EMAILS OF THE WEEK...

Keef,

Because I have been reading K Chronicles for thirty-five years, I feel I have an
understanding of your work.

It is obvious The Knight Life is a love letter to wifey and your family.

And for letting us read that,

Thank You

Yours,
J.
Denver

-----
(RE: Alien Abduction Knight Life Strip)

K,

Barney and Betty Hill, perhaps the first and most famous alien abductees, were an interracial couple. Their account of their abduction introduced several features that are now commonplace in abduction stories (fragile gray aliens, surgical probes).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Hill

--------

(RE: K Chronicles Vaccination strip)

Hey Keith!
I'm a devoted fan for your wit, wisdom, humor and slice-of-life
installments of The K Chronicles!
But, getting chicken pox as a kid was no big deal to me, fun to stay home
and miss school...at the time.
As an adult, I've become one of the 20% who suffer from SHINGLES, which is
no fun!
Medical science has learned that shingles is the SAME virus that is
responsible for chicken pox.
Read all about it at:
http://www.stopgettingsick.com/Condtemplate.cfm-1341-82-1

Also, be sure to check out Jenny McCarthy's info about "Green Our Vaccines"
and spacing out childhood immunization programs to avoid possible links to
AUTISM complications associated with multiple vaccine programs. Just
sayin'!!

Best Regards,
B. in SLC

Keith,

I've been a fan for a while now, but your recent articles have really hit close to home
since my wife is preggers with our first kid too!

After your most recent comic, I'm sure you're going to get a bunch of emails from
anti-vax folks telling you not to vaccinate your kid at all. Just wanted to temper that
a bit with some facts. Make your own decisions, but please inform yourself with the
science. Personally, I don't think there's any reason not to give all the vaccines to
your kid at once (they've been shown to be perfectly safe), but you're well within your
rights to space them out as makes you comfortable.

Don't listen to the anti-vax crowd. They completely ignore the sound research and divert
research dollars from where it should be going - to fund research into what actually
causes autism, and to finding a cure. Instead the NIH has wasted millions of dollars
appeasing these folks by funding study after study that tells us the same thing -
vaccines are safe. The "toxins" they claim to be in vaccines are not in there. The CDC
took the mercury out of childhood vaccines to appease these people, and there was no drop
in the autism rate (interestingly, the anti-vax crowd still claims that it's in there).
I can assure you that there is no anti-freeze or formaldehyde in any vaccine, they simply
do not understand the chemical nomenclature.

Alright, that's my rant.

best,
m.
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(RE: K Chronicles Bucket List strip)

Mr. Knight,

We have a 6 month old, and while our lives are different (I?'m not used to be
up and sober at 4am), you?ll be amazed at what you can still do with kids.
Our daughter comes to happy hour (I call ahead to work it out with the
restaurant), formal dinners, goes on planes, buses, trolleys, and just took
a 3 ½ week cross country road trip with us. She loves new places, and is
actually far more flexible than we, the adults, are.

Good luck!

-E.
---
(Re: (th)ink U Miss. Pot strip)

Hi,

Saw your great comic in the chronicle this morning...Good stuff.

My husband is on the board of Norml and I know he'll get a great laugh. So thanks and in
October we are holding the Annual Conference in Berkeley if interested.

Take Care,
T.

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Keith -

You got my vote in the WashPost survey. I've enjoyed your stuff in "Funny
Times" for years. Keep up the good work, and good luck with making it as a
regular in the "Post".

- A.

(folks can still put in a good word for my daily strip at the Post and a few other places:
go by their website and say something nice about the strip:

http://comicsurvey.washpost.com/survey.cfm

Another important paper testing the strip is in Raleigh, NC.:
http://share.triangle.com/node/3528?page=63

Also, the Orange County Register is taking a survey about what they should add to their paper:

http://ocregister.upickem.net/engine/ApprovedSubmissions.aspx?contestid=1864
thanks!! k.k.)

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Keef,

I don't know if you remember me - I've E-mailed you a few times in the past asking for information in getting my own comic strip out there. (No luck yet, incidentally.)
Anyway, the topic this time is completely different - I'd like to bring up something that I think should be addressed in your strip. I know that you've got a lot to draw on in your own life at the moment, what with the upcoming baby and all (congrats, by the way), but I really think this is something that the more people know about, the better.
The topic I refer to is that of Zimbabwe. I don't know if you've been keeping abreast of the political situation over there at the moment, but let me tell you, it makes ours look like a cakewalk. Bush may be an idiot and a warmonger, but Robert Mugabe is an out-and-out MONSTER.
The reason I know about this is that my mom grew up in Zimbabwe, and she still has family and friends living there. They have been corroborating the news reports via E-mail, and adding to them. It's not just as bad as people have been saying - it's worse. The people are not only being starved, they're being beaten, bullied, killed, tortured and indoctrinated. Food is now seen by the government as a weapon - in a country that is dying of starvation, feeding someone is now a potential crime. Why? Because they might have voted for the MDC (the opposition party to Mugabe's ZANU-PF). Anyone who might have voted for the 'wrong side' is now automatically a target.
Keef, you have often addressed issues of racism and politics in your strip - and rightly so; as a black man in America, you've seen the discrimination that still exists in our society. What's happening in Zimbabwe is worse - far worse. It started with the reverse of what we're used to - blacks against whites - and has steadily snowballed into a nightmare. Racism is wrong, no matter who initiates it, and Zimbabwe is a prime example of how it can be used in the wrong hands.
Now, none of this affects me - I don't live in Zimbabwe, and neither do any of my immediate family or friends. But that changes nothing. What's happening there is wrong. It's wrong, it's horrifying, and something should be done about it. South Africa, Zimbabwe's neighbor to the south, has proved that something CAN be done about it - our protests helped lift Apartheid.
Is there any chance you could address this subject in one of your strips? Right now, Zimbabwe is just a blip on the news to most folks, but your strip has a pretty loyal following, and could help bring things into focus for a lot of people. At the very least, would you mind printing this letter on your site?
Thanks, either way. The 'K' Chronicles is still one of my favorites!

Sincerely,

D.

(thanks for this, d. is it a black on white thing in zimbabwe? or a black on everybody who oppses him thing? cause all i ever see in the news is black folks getting hacked up, beaten and killed-kk.)

--- -

Mr. K,

It just hit me today why I like your strip so much. [I read it in Salon] You're always so enthusiastic, and your illustrating style makes the excited. It's great to see so much un-abashed, un-ashamed, un-ironic enthusiasm in anything.

That's all I really wanted to say other than good luck with the kid, I love the restaurant review idea, and better luck in the next life with Linda Carter.

Keep up the good-
-C.

(thanks!! when we moved down here to l.a., my wife & i agreed that we can have one celeb sleep over if they would like to. and mine is lynda carter. -kk.)

Cheers!!

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posted by keef at 12:47 AM


Friday, June 20, 2008
 
EXTRA!! EXTRA!! KNIGHT LIFE Q&A!!

Folks,

I'll be doing a live, online chat about my new daily strip with the Washington Post today (Friday) at 1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific.

Feel free to join in and ask questions. This is a great chance to make a good impression at the Post.

Here's the link to get in on it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/16/DI2008061602062.html

Cheers!!

Keef
The K Chronicles: 2008 Glyph Award Winner for Best Comic Strip
Coming soon from Dark Horse Comics: The Complete K Chronicles
Pre-order now at http://www.kchronicles.com

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
 
*NEW YORK CITY/PHILLY WRAP-UP..
Had a marvelous time hitting the east coast for the AAN Convention and MoCCA Festival. Always a pleasure hooking up with folks like Mike LaRiccia, Pete Friedrich, Hilary Price and my infamous gang of radicals, the Cartoonists with Attitude.

One of the coolest things I did and one of my cheap-ass moves of the week was to take the Chinatown bus from NYC to Philly. Have you ever taken one of these things?It takes you from one Chinatown to the other. $20 round trip. 2 hours. Clean. Efficient. Excellent. I recommend it over Greyhound, Amtrak, and all the others alternatives. They also do Boston, D.C. and a lot more. http://www.apexbus.com

I made some nice connections at AAN, which is the yearly Alternative Newsweekly Convention. I think I'll be picking up at least a coupla papers in the near future, including one in Vermont and Washington D.C.

One more cheap-ass move: If you're gonna take money from an ATM, and your bank 's ATMs are nowhere to be found, use the Chinese or Korean bank ATMs. The Bank of America surcharge for using their ATMs is $2.00. The Chinese bank that I used: .50c!!

*SPEAKING OF WASHINGTON D.C...
I cannot overstate how important it is for me to have my daily strip, "the Knight Life", secure a permanent place in the Washington Post. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE go by their website and say something nice about the strip:

http://comicsurvey.washpost.com/survey.cfm

Another important paper testing the strip is in Raleigh, NC.:
http://share.triangle.com/node/3528?page=63

Also, the Orange County Register is taking a survey about what they should add to their paper:

http://ocregister.upickem.net/engine/ApprovedSubmissions.aspx?contestid=1864

*MY CARTOON ART MUSEUM ART SHOW OPENS THIS WEEK..
..though I won't be there. I'm gonna try to come up for a late opening event in August. I gots ta wait for the little one to arrive, and the big book, too.

For more info: http://www.cartoonart.org

*CARTOONING WORKSHOP AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM..
I'll be conducting a cartooning workshop at one of L.A.'s swankiest museums, courtesy of 826LA, in July. It's open to kids, aged 8 to 12. For more info, go to

http://www.826la.org/workshops/


*HOW SWEET IT IS..
..to be a Boston sports fan. Sure, the Pats blew it, but they've tasted victory in the past few years already. Congrats to the Boston Celtics for hoisting for the first time in decades.

A coupla things:
*The Celts were always known as the white guy team. Not anymore. Wonder how the Townies feel about that
*I went to high school with the black dude sitting behind the Boston bench (Mr. Ellen Pompeo).

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posted by keef at 11:44 PM


Friday, May 23, 2008
 
*NEW PAPERS FOR THE KNIGHT LIFE..

Folks!

My new daily comic strip, The Knight Life, is currently being tested at the following
newspapers:

The Washington Post in D.C.

The Contra Costa Times in Northern California

and the Sacramento Bee.

If you have a moment, please send these folks an email (or call!!) to give a thumbs up to
the strip. It would be most appreciated. The links are below.

The Wash, Post:
http://comicsurvey.washpost.com/survey.cfm
and/or email: comics@washpost.com
and/or call: (202)334-4775

Contra Costa Times:
cctcomics@bayareanewsgroup.com

Sacramento Bee:
http://www.sacbee.com/dyn/comments/standard/comments_separate.html?uri=http://www.sacbee.com/107/story/808707.html&o=d&ud=u&avatar=n&tie_to=808707&url_type=1&headline=New%20Comics%3A%20Tell%20us%20what%20you%20think

Haven't seen the strip yet?

http://www.knightlifecomic.com

Early copies of the 500-page K Chronicles Omnibus Collection just got back to Dark
Horse. I hear it looks spectacular. I'll have a copy to show at Mocca in New York in a
coupla weeks.

Thanks for your help!!

Keef
The K Chronicles: 2008 Glyph Award Winner for Best Comic Strip
Next signings: NEW YORK CITY- Mocca Comics Fest Sat./Sun. June 7/8
the 5th K Chronicles Collection: "I Left My Arse in San Francisco"
Available at http://www.kchronicles.com
Now running in a paper near you: "the Knight Life" Keef's New Daily!!

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
 
*EXTRA!! EXTRA!!
Just got word that I'll be having a solo exhibit of my work at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco (woo hoo!!) from June- October of this year!!

Haven't worked out all the details, but it looks like approx. 40 pieces will adorn the walls in the back gallery California artist section.

The exhibit will include the K Chronicles, (th)ink, my MAD magazine work, my sports strip from ESPN the magazine, and a few choice strips from my new daily comic, the Knight Life!!

*THE KNIGHT LIFE LAUNCHES!!
Thanks for all the well-wishes concerning the launch of my new daily strip. They want to hear feedback in the Seattle Post Intelligencer and the Sacramento Bee, so please send positive emails telling them to keep it.

My evil twin sis sent contact info for the Seattle Paper:
TEST COMICS: We're running a month's worth of two new comics. Please e-mail us your
thoughts at picomics@seattlepi.com.

The Boston Herald hasn't started running it yet. I'll let you know when it does. Also, it recently got picked up in Denver, Albany , NY., and Provo, UT. Look for it to start up in those locations soon.

If you work for a paper, and you're interested in adding the new strip, contact me at syndication@knightlifecomic.com.

And the new website: http://www.knightlifecomic.com

*CHEAP-ASS MOVE OF THE WEEK..
We're shopping for Baby stuff for the upcoming arrival of "He-Who Cannot-Be-Named", and we've found that craigslist is ideal for picking up inexpensive, uppity baby stuff fer cheap.

The key is to limit your search to all the rich sections of town. We've found some incredible deals if we search for stuff in Santa Monica, Brentwood ..and all the other uppity places in L.A.

*WHAT IS UP WITH SOME OF THESE (TH)INK READERS?
I recently did a (th)ink for Earth Day where the Moon, looking like a doctor, tells the Earth that it is infested with "destructive parasites"...

I don't know if someone whined about it on talk radio, but I got a few emails of folks who were extremely bent out of shape. Here's a sample:

"What about all the doctors, musicians, artists, engineers, pilots, taxi drivers, teachers, mail carriers, fire-fighters..just parasites?

I'm a hard-working, honest citizen trying to earn a decent living for my family. I don't like being thought of as a destructive parasite. Should I tell my children they are destructive parasites too?"

Another person wrote; "What if I called African-Americans parasites? Not so funny now, is it?"

Geez Louise. Relax, will ya?



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posted by keef at 8:30 PM


Wednesday, April 30, 2008
 
IN THIS ISSUE:
-KEEF GOING DAILY!!
-PRE-ORDER THE 500 PAGE K CHRONICLES OMNIBUS AT 30%
OFF
-KEEF COMING TO SCHULZ MUSEUM/INTERSECTION FOR THE
ARTS

Dearest K Chronicles/(th)ink Readers,

Finally!! I can now blab all I want about the top
secret project I've been working on these past 9
months (the OTHER 9 month project)..

*INTRODUCING 'THE KNIGHT LIFE'..
The Knight Life is the new daily strip being
syndicated by United Features Syndicate!! It's
premiering on Monday, May 5th (Cinco De Mayo AND
National Cartoonist's Day)!!

Honestly, folks. This is a dream come true. This is
what I dreamt about as a kid. It's the big leagues.
I want to thank everybody who has supported my work
over the years. I hope you will continue to support
it as it grows and expands like an American waistline.

FAQs-
WHAT'S 'THE KNIGHT LIFE' ABOUT?

It's autobiographical like the K Chronicles. But
different. It has to be, because of the format. It's
a much more character-driven strip.

Sundays will be a combination of reformatted K
Chronicles and new stuff-- all in sparkling, vibrant
color!!

WHERE IS IT RUNNING?

It's starting up in a few choice places (Seattle,
Portland, Las Vegas, Detroit, the Boston Herald,
the Washington Post and more) , but not enough places.
THAT'S WHERE YOU COME IN!!

HOW CAN I GET 'THE KNIGHT LIFE' IN MY LOCAL PAPER?

I need everybody to send a polite email, letter, or
make a phone call to your local newspaper editor and
kindly request that they consider adding 'the Knight
Life' to their comics page. You can tell 'em that the
artist won a 2007 Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip,
and that their circulation will quadruple if they add
it. Don't threaten. Don't nag. Don't be too harsh
about other strips. It may back fire. Please be nice.

Newspapers will sometimes ask their readers directly
about the comics page. Others sometimes do a test run
of strips.

BUT GET THIS: THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE HAS NOT
PICKED IT UP!!

After all the years I gave to San Francisco. Damn.

Definitely send some emails the Chronicle's way.
They've been asking for feedback..

*Also, talk it up on yer blogs, podcasts, websites and
all that stuff.

*If you know any publications/radio/TV shows who could
possibly do a piece about the strip or mebbe an
interview, let me know!!

WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO THE K CHRONICLES AND (TH)INK?

I'm gonna keep on doing them. Plus the daily. Plus
MAD and ESPN. With a baby on the way. NO PROBLEM!!

IS THERE A PLACE ONLINE I CAN FIND THE STRIP?

You'll be able to see it at comics.com, I believe. I
will also be carrying it a week later on my site.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, FEEL FREE TO SEND ME AN
EMAIL..AGAIN, THANKS FOR YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT!!

*THE COMPLETE K CHRONICLES: NOW AVAILABLE FOR
PRE-ORDER!!
You can now go to my website and pre-order the
upcoming 500-page K Chronicles Omnibus Collection
(being published by Dark Horse this summer). It
collects the first four books (including the
out-of-print 'Dances with Sheep', 'Fear of a Black
Marker', and 'Passion of the Keef'), sketches, notes
and a foreward by Kyle Baker!! Click on the link
below to got to the pre-order:

http://www.kchronicles.com/store/index.shtml

I'm looking for places to promote this book as well.
Man, it just don't stop!!

*KEEF AT THE CHARLES SCHULZ MUSEUM/INTERSECTION FOR
THE ARTS
I'll be up in the Bay Area in late May for a couple of
events. On Sunday, May 18th, I'll be the guest
cartoonist at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, from
1-3pm. I'll be signing copies of 'I Left My Arse in
San Francisco'. If you've never been there, go!!
It's a really swanky place.
http://www.schulzmuseum.org

On Tuesday, May 20th, I'll be sharing the stage with
co-horts Miriam Libicki, Ariel Schrag and Jaime Cortez
for a panel discussion about graphic storytelling as
part of a month-long series of comic strip and cartoon
based events put on by the Jewish Community Center of
San Francisco. It takes place from 7-9pm at the
Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia St. (between
15th and 16th) San Francisco.

http://www.jccsf.org/content_main.aspx?catid=448

Oof!!

-Keef
http://www.kchronicles.com
http://www.knightlifecomic.com

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