*LETTER OF THE WEEK...

Hello,

I hate to ask but are you okay? I have not seen any new comics recently to tell you the truth I can only read the old ones so many times!

Hopefully the lack of comics is because you are on to bigger and better things. Perhaps an update on your website would help your fans cope with the loss.

Good luck with all that you do.

Sincerely,

M.Eau Claire, WI
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I think this letter and others like it are coming from folks who read my stuff at the Ucomics/Gocomics.com site run by Universal Press Syndicate. I am no longer uploading strips to their site. My contract with them was up in September. Both the K Chronicles and (th)ink will begin up on the comics.com site run by United Media sometime in 2008.

For those of you who have fallen behind on my work, check it out at Buzzle.com or Salon.com. But starting in just a coupla weeks, kchronicles.com will relaunch with all the comics I do right on the site, plus forums, new work, never before seen stuff and plenty more krappe.

*WHAT THE HECK HAVE I BEEN WORKING ON?
A trillion things, really:

Due in Feb: A new K Chronicles collection. It'll be available exclusively from this website and I'll have it at all my usual convention stops and slideshow gigs.

Due in May: My super-secret project that ain't really super-secret if you've run into me over the past year. But at least two of you will be surprised.

Due this summer: The Complete K Chronicles. The 500-page Omnibus collection that's going to be published by Dark Horse. With sketches, notes & commentary. Introduction by Kyle Baker.

Also Due this summer: My first kid!!

*UPCOMING GIGS:
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (slideshow)
Weds. Feb. 6 @ 7pm

EUPHRAT'S MUSEUM OF ART (De Anza College, Cupertino) (slideshow/gallery exhibit)
Thurs. Feb. 21 @ 1:30pm (time not set in stone)

WONDERCON COMICS FESTIVAL (artists alley)
Fri.-Sun. Feb. 22nd-24th 10am-7pm

*ABOUT THIS WEEK'S K CHRONICLES STRIP..
A lotta hockey type things kept on poppin' up in my world. (the New Years Day game.. the Canadian barista at my favorite cafe was talking hockey) a convergence of sorts. So when I opened up the paper and saw the story of Willie O'Ree, I had to do a strip about it.

And heck..You gotta find some perverse joy in Georges Laraque beating the hell out of people. Watch this clip til the end to see how polite he is.

*THIS WEEK'S TOILET READING..
-the latest Funny Times
-the Life and Times of R. Crumb
Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me- Robert Crumb letters 1958-1977
-The Death of Black Mane- Michael LaRiccia
-Bad Cat by Jim Edgar

*THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO IS DONATING TO THE BABY FUND!!


Cheers,

Keef

Labels: letter of the week, toilet reading, upcoming events

 
*HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season. We stayed down here in Los Angeles, and went to the beach on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I even hit tennis balls on Christmas day. It was nice.

We brought the new year in at home, too. Eating fresh crab and watching Holocaust movies.

We watched "the Trial of Sophie Scholl". Great film, inspirational, but super depressing. We paused her beheading to bring in the New Year. After watching that, 2008 can only get better.

But mostly I've been working. Doing a lot of drawing. It's shaping up to be the biggest year yet here at K.Knight Komix. There are many projects in production (including a kid!!) I hope you'll follow me throughout the year to see what's in store.

*KYLE BAKER TO WRITE THE INTRODUCTION FOR THE DARK HORSE K CHRONICLES COLLECTION!!
Just got word that the great Kyle Baker will be doing the Foreward to the Complete K Chronicles Collection, which collects the first four K Chronicles collections, along with commentary by yours truly, sketches and notes.

*MY 5 FAVORITE MOVIES FOR 2007 (in no particular order)
*Michael Clayton (this was done by a first time director??)
*No Country For Old Men (although the ending was sorta wack)
*Ratatouille (I don't know how to spell it)
*3:10 to Yuma (That was Peter Fonda?)
*Once (great songs and music/I thought the bad acting actually made it more realistic, 'cept the studio guy and the bank guy)

*5 MOVIES FROM 2007 THAT I STILL NEED TO SEE
*Persepolis
*King of Kong
*American Gangsta
*The Savages
*Eastern Promises

*5 GREAT MOVIE PERFORMANCES
*Amy Ryan- Frighteningly realistic Bostonian white trash in "Gone Baby Gone"
*Amy Adams- I cannot explain how good she is in "Enchanted". If she wasn't , the movie would be unbearable
*Javier Bardem- Effing badass in "No Country.."
*Tom Wilkinson-Is he nuts? Is he a pervert? Is he a genius? In "Michael Clayton"
*Josh Brolin/Phillip Seymour Hoffman make at least 7 2007 movies better because of their existence.

Looking forward to Batman, Bond and Indiana Jones (though I'm afraid of what I might see).


*WE'RE OFF TO BARBADOS!!
..in a coupla weeks. Barbados is where my father's side of the family is from and I've never been there!! I'm looking forward to the misbehavior that will ensue.

*IT'S 2008!!
Whaddaya mean, ya haven't ordered a K Chronicles/(th)ink/Little Victories Calendar yet?!!

Labels: 2008 calendar, holiday orders, holocaust, kyle baker, movies