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*EMAILS OF THE WEEK..

(Re: This week’s K Chronicles (about Confession) )

Keef,

Classic. Of course, we'll lose half our advertisers, but I think we'll
run it anyway.


T.

(Ha!!  This is from my editor at the Sitting Duck up in Olympia.-k.k.)
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(Re: The last Life's Little Victories strip (which was all about the Boston area)

Hello, Keith


I am a huge fan of the your work. I'm also a proud fellow Maldonian. In

fact, I once took (wait for it) break dancing lessons from you at the Malden

Studio of Dance on Highland Ave. back in my Girls Catholic High School days.


The steps you taught me came in very handy at Dance Factory (rip) and The

Palace (rip) back in the day. Today, I occasionally amaze my friends when I

bust a move to "Rockit."


Anyway - your Life's Little Victories are my faves and your reference to the

Squire in today's strip was FUGGINAWESOME. It reminded me of the old, skinny

black-haired Squire stripper who was a regular customer at Mal's. Thanks so

much.


Go Tornadoes,

K.

(Man!! She’s really reachin’ back!! This is back to my Michael Jackson impersonator days!!-k.k.)

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Keith,

It’s wonderful to find out how far a state education can go!

Congratulations on your success, and I can benefit by telling my kids I know
someone famous.

My name is K. and I attended Salem State college from 87-92. I remember
you in Bowditch Hall and around the commons.

I think you were there also, but if I’m wrong make a cartoon of a stranger
claiming to know you.

-K.

(hmmm..a lot of Boston folk comin’ out of the woodwork..-k.k.)
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(RE: The Purple and Green people strip)

Keith,

I’m not prone to send fan-mail of any sort, but your cartoon “Who the heck
are all these green and purple folks white people are always talking about?”
really struck a chord with me. I’m a professor of Political Science who
occasionally teaches Ethnic Conflict (and I’m white, too!). I’ve been
overheard frequently while asking rhetorical questions of my students or
pontificating on some larger point saying something along the lines of your
recent cartoon. Needless to say, your work had the effect of holding up a
mirror, confronting me with the absurdity of my statements. My first
reaction was to LOL, but then quickly gave way to a momentary wave of
embarrassment. Touche! And, kudos!

But, while driving my daughter to the store this afternoon, I think I
figured out why white people talk so much about the green and purple folks
so much. Sly and the Family Stone’s “Everyday People” came on the radio and
I felt compelled to share with you where I think the origins of liberal,
white, misplaced-rainbow silliness reside:

Sometimes I’m right and I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then
Makes no difference what group I’m in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah
There is a blue one who can’t accept the green one
For living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one
And different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee
Oh sha sha – we got to live together
I am no better and neither are you
We are the same whatever we do
You love me you hate me you know me and then
You can’t figure out the bag l’m in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah
There is a long hair that doesn’t like the short hair
For bein’ such a rich one that will not help the poor one
And different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee
Oh sha sha-we got to live together
There is a yellow one that won’t accept the black one
That won’t accept the red one that won’t accept the white one
And different strokes for different folks
Anyhow, keep up the good work. I’ve read your strip religiously for years
and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon (although I may think twice about
lecturing on Skittle-colored people in the future).

Best,

C.

(I wrote back to him and said the Sly excuse doesn’t fly cuz he wuz on drugs when he wrote the above tune. And you DO see purple people when you are on drugs…not that I’d know.-k.k.)

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*NEXT APPEARANCES ARE SET..

Sun. Sept. 30- West Hollywood Book Fair, West Hollywood, CA. 9am-6pm (Tabling)

Thurs. Oct. 11- Barnes and Noble, Bethesda MD. 7:30pm (Slideshow with CWA)

Fri./Sat. Oct.12/13-SPX in Bethesda, MD. 2pm-8pm Fri- 10am-7pm Sat. (Tabling plus a comic strip panel)

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*THE IN-LAWS HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING *sniff*
The wifey’s parents headed back to Deutschland after a 3 and a half week stay. We rocked it on both coasts and had a great time. Now it’s time to grind out a butt-load of comics and gear up for my favorite time of the year: Autumn. Sure, leaves don’t change in Los Angeles. But at least it ain’t 105 in the shade anymore…

Stuff I’m working on:
*the new K Chronicles collection
*a super-secret project that will be announced soon
*a graphic novel proposal

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*WHERE TO FIND ME THIS MONTH..
I’ve got a most swanky interview in the Comics Journal this month (issue #285)

I’ve also got a new Bully Baby strip in this month’s ish of MAD magazine (issue #482)