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*K CHRONICLES.COM NEWSLETTER

IN THIS ISSUE:
*THE K CHRONICLES NOMINATED FOR HARVEY AWARD
*KEEF IN NEW YORK CITY NEXT WEEK
*KEEF IN D.C. WEEK OF JULY 4TH

Dearest K Chronicles/(th)ink reader,

It’s that time of year again..The time when I ask faithful readers to write to whatever paper/website/magazine you see that runs my work and thank them for running my stuff. It’s great for me to hear from folks who like the strip, but it’s even better when folks hit up the publications too.

*”THE K CHRONICLES” NOMINATED FOR A HARVEY AWARD!! (ballot deadline: Aug. 3, 2007)
For the 2nd year in a row, “The K Chronicles” has taken home the Glyph Award for Best Comic Strip and has been nominated for A Harvey award for Best Syndicated Panel or Comic Strip. (Tony Millionaire’s “Maakies” won last year) I’m hoping you and/or all yer industry friends vote for “the K Chronicles”, cuz I’m up against some serious competition ( Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury”, “Maakie’s” again, and Patrick McDonnell’s “Mutts”, and Maakie’s again). Let’s shock the world!! Anyone in “the industry” can vote. Go here for a ballot:
http://www.harveyawards.org/ If you ain’t keen with voting online, print out a paper ballot. Or I’ll send you one. Just send me your address…

*KEEF AT MOCCA 2007 IN NYC THIS WEEKEND (June 23-24)!!
Ahh! I’ll be back in the Big Apps once again for New York’s premiere Festival for indie cartoonists. And this year I’ll be doing my WORLD FAMOUS SLIDESHOW on Saturday afternoon at 2:45pm (Just after Alison Bechdel!!) at the Mocca Museum at 594 Broadway, two blocks away from the Festival. Please note that this is the first year where slideshow and panels will be in a separate building from the Fest itself.

MoCCA Art Festival 2007
June 23-24, 2007
Puck Building (293 Lafayette at Houston), New York City

for more info: http://www.moccany.org/artfest-main.html

*KEEF IN WASHINGTON D.C., JULY 3-7TH
I just became a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and will be attending their 50th anniversary convention in the nation’s capital early next month. I’ll be doing two slideshow performances: One on July 3rd with a gaggle of Editorial cartoonist superstars

Cartoonapalooza, Fireworks in Pen and Ink: Ted Rall, Keith Knight, Mark Fiore, Tom Toles and more!
Tue Jul 3 6:30pm – Tue Jul 3 8:30pm

Renaissance Mayflower Hotel 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington DC 20036 202-232-5300

Cartoons & Cocktails and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Present:
Cartoonapalooza: Fireworks in Pen and Ink!

Join Tom Toles, Ted Rall, Mike Peters, Mike Luckovich, Rob Rogers and five other brilliant, ground-breaking editorial artists as they talk politics, the election, Bush and beyond. The public is invited to a cocktail reception before the panel discussion to meet the artists. Door prizes at the reception will include signed original cartoons and books. The proceeds from this event will go to support Newspapers In Education’s “Cartoons for the Classroom” program, a non-profit program that provides editorial cartoon-related lesson plans for teachers. Cartoonapalooza is the must-attend event of the year for all political buffs and cartoon afficionados!
Featured Cartoonists:

* Ted Rall, Universal Press Syndicate
* Tom Toles, Washington Post
* Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
* Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News
* Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
* Jack Ohman, The Oregonian
* Ruben Bolling, Tom the Dancing Bug
* Ann Telnaes, Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate
* Keith Knight, The K-Chronicles
* Mark Fiore, Animated Political Cartoonist

Ticket Price: $25 in advance/$35 at door

For more info and to buy tickets:
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoonapalooza.cfm

**I’ll also be doing a slideshow booksigning with my Cartoonist’s with Attitude brethren and sistren. Details below:

DC: Slideshow w/ Ted Rall, Keith Knight, Ruben Bolling, Mikhaela Reid, Masheka Wood, Stephanie McMillan, Jen Sorensen, August J. Pollak, Mat Bors, Ben Smith and Brian McFadden @ Borders

Sat Jul 7 2pm – Sat Jul 7 3:30pm

Borders 18th & L Streets NW Washington, DC 20006 202.466.4999

Free slideshow & signing with groundbreaking alternative cartoonists from Cartoonists With Attitude

*KCHRONICLES.COM RE-VAMP..
I’ll be changing https://kchronicles.com over the next few months…and I want to hear from you about what you’d like to see on the re-vamped site. Please email your suggestions to moi at keef@kchronicles.com

*TO ALL YOU SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOLKS..
My close personal friend Brian Copeland is bringing his one-man show “Not a Genuine Black Man” down to Malibu starting next week. If you like my comics, you’ll love this show.

Get tix and info here: http://www.briancopeland.com/
And tell him Keef sent you.

In my Mix:
*Knocked Up
*Change (the band)
*the taco truck at the end of my street

*LETTERS OF THE WEEK…

Hi Keith,
Thank you so much for participating in the League’s art auction last Friday,
your piece was a HUGE hit. There was a bidding war and it sold for $700.
Thank you so much for all your help with publicity and all that!
You are great, the League of Young Voters is lucky to have your support!

H.
—
League of Young Voters
www.indyvoter.org/donate/
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Keef –

I really dug the new “Life’s Little Victories” strip — the numbers were
an especially nice touch. The line “and it turns out to be the best one”
landing in the 1980 panel was my favorite. Whether the subtext was
deliberate or not, I think we can agree that one can never praise
“Empire” too much…

Nice work!

Cheers,
Bob

(hA!! he’s referring to the latest life’s little vics that takes place at the Star Wars 30th anniversary convention. I numbered the vics from 1977-1983, the years the good movies came out.

what I didn’t do was purposely refer to “the best one” in vic #1980 (ie: the Empire Strikes Back), but when i was finished with the strip, i noticed and pointed out the brilliance of it to the wifey, and she just looked at me with a puzzled expression. Ha!!-kk)

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Dear Keef,

Just visited yo’ sto’ and see a listing for Dances with Sheep, but not
for Fear of a Black Marker. Am I being punished for not buying these
back in November? Refuse to use Paypal, so please tell me if I should
send a check for just Dances with Sheep or if maybe you have another
Fear of a Black Marker somewhere just waiting for the right home?

Very truly sincerely yours,
D.
Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)

(i actually have a very small stash of the out-of-print “Fear of A Black Marker” here at the bungalow (that’s what we call tiny ass apartments here in L.A.)..not enough to list on the website, but if you want to order one, email me at keef@kchronicles.com and we can work it out.-kk)

*SEE YOU IN NEW YORK, SUCKAS..
I’ll be there for a coupla extra daze, swinging by the MAD offices , signing with gigantic syndicate deals and overall acting deviantly. Come by the MoCCA Fest and say HI!!

Ciao!!