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Heya, Keith!
My name’s Chris. Met you briefly at MOCCA and bought a couple of your books, which I found mightily impressive (so much so that one of the reasons I’m writing is to buy the others). W. B. introduced me to you.
You have an illustration in ‘Passion’ which made me think you’d be interested in one of my pasttimes — taking photos of political protest signs. (The cartoon I’m thinking of is the one where you recounted some of the signs you saw during the Feb. 2003 anti-war march in SF.) Like a half-million other NYers, I was in the two NYC pre-war marches and then the anti-RNC one last August, and boy, some folks are pretty damn creative with their signs. I’ve collected some of the more interesting ones and put them on-line for viewing at:
http://www.pbase.com/csw62/nyc_protest_signs
It amazes me how rabidly people object to these; one commentator suggested I should be swinging from a lamp post. I invite you to take a look.
The other big love of my life is cartoons. I’m an avid collector, especially of the single panel gag sort. At one point I had close to a couple thousand hardbound volumes, but I’ve pared the collection down considerably of late. Because it’s relatively easy to read about cartoonists’ works but often much more difficult to actually see the books/collections themselves, I’ve put images of some of my better stuff on the web:
http://www.pbase.com/csw62/cartoons
I’m in the process of posting short biographies and anecdotes and anything interesting about the individual cartoonists, but it’s a sloooow process. Anyone who happens by will observe that (as of last weekend!) you’re there too: …Walt Kelly, B. Kliban, Ken Kling, Keith Knight!, John Knott, Ed Koren…. So the other reason I’m writing is to ask your permission about posting a picture of you (the one that’s there now is from a Google search — guess I should be asking the photographer, too) and just, in general, running by you the idea of including you on the site.
I’ll send you a check or do the PayPal thing for the other books in short order. It was nice to meet you; I wish I’d been familiar with your work beforehand, though.
Regards,
–chris
dear keith,
tis I, Jake Friedman.
you probably don’t remember me, when you came to SUNY Binghamton in April 2001 to do a talk about comics. But i remember you. I was the comics page guy of the school newspaper, and in your lecture, you started bashing the comics in the school paper. thanks a lot, by the way… They were all about getting drunk, getting laid, getting high,,, ,you know, college stuff. But what’s the point, you argued, of using a vast venue like comics if you don’t use to SAY something that means something to you.
anyway, you gave me your 1-on-1 time, i bought your stuff, and from that point on my comics were me ranting to the school administration, the student population, and to the way things were instead of how they should be. For a time i had a lynch mob of frat guys after me. But i transferred to NYU to study animation, made a final student film speaking form the heart about issues that i waas concerned about, and got an award and a job out of it.
so in a flakey sort of way, i’ve been meaning to tell you that you changed my entire approach to creative arts, and made me much more critical of everything from indie films to the sunday comics page to modern art. And you know my friend and mentee Nina, so what a perfect excuse to drop a line.
i’m typing this from Nina’s sofa. just wanted to thank you for changing my life.
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
ttfn
jake
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