The K Chronicles Ends at Salon.com
Loading...It’s true! After more than a decade, The K Chronicles will no longer be posting weekly at Salon.com. I appreciate the exposure Salon has given the strip and wish it well…But it was made clear to me that it was time to move on.
What’s in store for the strip? For one thing, there’s this spanky new website!! We’ve still got plenty of stuff to add, but when we’re done you’ll be able to view the complete K Chronicle archive going waaay back to my college (!!) daze. Plus a few multi-page and full-color stories.
You’ll also be able to catch the strip over at Tonic.com. A site that posts only good news. I like that. Please head over there and tell ’em the K Chronicles makes you happy.
One last Salon note: A couple of Salon contributors, King Kaufman and Cary Tennis, got stomped by some serious illnesses, so a few folks have put together an E-bay auction to raise some $$$ to help with medical bills. I donated a K Chronicles original that is currently going for $9.99!! Get over there and help me save face (it’s for a good cause)!!
It’s about time you update your ass to WEB 2.0!
As ‘gards the auction–well, I’m just screwing myself over by posting this–but I couldn’t bear to have the action stay in single digits ONE MOMENT LONGER.
Hmm. Maybe next cup should be decaf.
Argh. Really? I’m not getting the K Chronicles at Salon.com anymore? This saddens me.
Nice site re-boot.
Salon just lost my eyes.
Keep on Keithing on, brotherlove
What!?!?! Your strip is/was the best thing on Salon. Phooey!
Alas, it’s hard to part away after so many years.
A K Chronicles archive, however, is WIN.
Feel free to let Salon know how you feel (in a nice way!!)..
Salon shit the bed with this one.
I will follow you to Tonic . The “new and improved ” Salon lost me months ago except for returning to their new and improved fucked up comics display Tuesday ,Wednesday and Thursday to catch Tom Tomorow Keef and Ruben . People unclear on the concept . Get rid of good content and make what remains difficult to navigate. They must have their fingers in their ears going NA NA NA NA NA NA.
Those bastards!
Yes, the new and improved Salon is neither. I have been a (paying!) subscriber for more than a decade, but the new layout makes it impossible to read. And now this! Worse than not having healthcare.
Keef: OH NO! Just when I thought it was safe to resubscribe now that the odious Camille Paglia had gone off to write another Very Important Book. Phooey, they’ll never get another nickel from me, but I have bookmarked this page. Keep up the great work!
I’m with the other posters who are giving up their Salon habit now that the website is completely unnavigable and they’ve lost their best cartoonist. What on earth are they thinking? I just hope it’s not impacting your $ situation too much, Keef, what with a baby and all.
Ah, what a pity. Salon continues its precipitous downhill slide with the loss of The K Chronicles, one of the best strips the site has run. I’ll be visiting Salon a lot less, it appears. Though, I still enjoy Tom, the Dancing Bug quite a lot. Glad to hear we can still find K on another site, though!
Dear me, how sad. First WayLay and now K-Chron. Piffle. I do hope Salon realizes that I don’t trust newspapers without comic sections.
Also sad to hear about King Kaufman. Did not know about his illness.
Keef: I left comments on a couple of threads at Salon.
No more Salon for me, then.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Bleah – I’m really sorry to hear about this. I’ll write Salon a letter but to be honest I think it’ll just end up going into the Pit of Void that passes as their feedback system. Count me in with those who hate the redesign and hate the apparent direction the site is going. And now, no K Chronicles? Just about no reason to visit Salon anymore…
Tom Tomorrow was good enough to point folks here.
It’s Salon’s loss.
Website bookmarked!
Can you make the Knight Life link more obvious? I had to dig around to even find the name of the strip . . . I’d seen it in the Chron on my last visit to SF but forgot to write down the title.
Oh, never mind. The link is right there in the left column under “About.”
What? How dare they! What am I going to do now? Your stuff is funny, trenchant, intelligent and weird….and they’re giving that up? Brain-dead trottels.
I’m writing Salon to give them a piece of my mind….politely of course…..I will take my eyes and brain over to Tonic.com (and let them know they better not let you go, nicely, of course.)
I wondered what happened at Salon. I always looked forward to wednesdays and to get my fresh K Chronic. This site will be a regular stop now!
Well, that’s a minute or so less each week I’ll be looking at Salon; glad to find this site, though.
Yeah, that’s the final straw for me with Salon. Ridiculous. But i love you, keef! i’ll be here at your site instead!
TKC was the only reason I went to Salon, though I often browsed other sections while I was there. Sorry to hear about King Kaufman and Cary Tennis – I did enjoy their columns when I read them. However, I’m glad there’s a new hangout with lots more Keef content!
I guess Salon had to clear the decks for more shitty opinion pieces cribbed from human interest wire stories. Pretty lame.
First they drop Carol Lay, now K-chron. What’s up with that? Not much reason to visit Salon anymore. I’ll be back here and on Tonic for my fix from now on. Keef – keep up the good work!!
Keith, in all seriousness YOU were the reason I became a subscriber to Salon in the first place eight years ago! Add me to the growing chorus of disenchanted readers who will cease giving money to a very, very different Salon…
I was afraid this was what had happened when I noticed that K-Chron hadn’t been on Salon for a couple of weeks. First Carol Lay and now you? What are they thinking? And did they tell us you were no longer there? No. The comics were the only reason I go there any more. One less reason.
At least they had the decency not to remove the link to this site from their archive pages.
I’ve been in online dev since before the Internet and I’m always amazed that after over a decade keep making the same mistakes. Well, you’re actually better off on your own in the long run, Keef, because the business model for publishing of all kinds has changed (and the folks at Salon are still trying to hang onto the old model).
I was a Salon charter subscriber who cancelled my subscription after they brought back Paglia, began publishing articles that apparently never saw an editor while focusing on pandering to the “American Idol” crowd and started pushing the “free” content to cut expenses. You, Andrew Leonard and the occasional book review were all that kept me coming back. Without you, I just deleted it from my bookmarks.
Thank you for offering a great originally for the charity auction. And I hope to catch your next appearance in Seattle or if I’m in L.A., perhaps I can catch a show there. Please keep up the great work and keep the products coming. *And make your donation button bigger and add a subscription button.* I know my husband would be more than happy to pay a $2-3 monthly or annual subscription to keep you publishing.
Wow, I just thought I was getting lost in the very messy and difficult to navigate new design. Well, now I really have no reason to go to Salon anymore, but I am so happy that I will be able to enjoy (rant and squirm with) your comics anyway.
Keith,
I just deleted my salon.com bookmark. You were the last reason I had to visit their site. I’ll keep reading at your homepage. Keep it up!
I asked Carol why she was no longer doing Waylay and she said the strip had run out of gas. You, on the other hand, are going strong and I’m not clear why Salon would want to drop TKC. Thank Grid it’s still available here. I’ve enjoyed watching the progression from dreads to porkpie hat, single free spirit to dedicated family man. Keep up the good work & best of luck!
I too am sick of Salon. Like hundreds of others, I’ve complained about their Website redo which is not only ugly, but impossible to get around. I’ve complained about them dropping Waylay and now you. I’ve complained about their contents which has turned from alternative news to liberal whining. (If I want to hear liberal whining, I can talk to myself).
But, despite the thousands of complaints from people like myself, they’re too busy preening around with their head up very dark anatomical part of their body. I’ve already told them that I’ve canceled my subscription.
It must have been all the whining on their forums about your Canadian “racism”. How dare you make fun of Canadians! Don’t you know they’re an oppressed group? They have to live in Canada after all. It’s like living in a suburban Minneapolis, but not as exciting.
Sorry to hear you aren’t going to be on Salon anymore. Their comics are the primary reason I go to their site anyway — now my visits will be down to twice a week. See you on Tonic!
Salon is dead to me.
Keith, at first I thought you might just be on vacation, but after a few weeks I needed to come here and see what the deal was. I discovered your strip in Salon years ago, so I am pretty sad. Why on earth would they want to lose you? I read that site less and less these days anyway, so like some other commenters, I’ll just switch over to Tonic. I’ve written Salon an email too to let them know that they’re idiots. (In a nice way!)
Hi Keith,
Glad I’ve found where I can get my weekly fix of TKC again. :)
I’ve copied in my feedback to Salon below.
–Philip;
Hi,
I’ve read Salon for many years primarily for the tech stories & comics but also enjoyed the serendipity of discovering articles about things I didn’t know I was interested in.
While I used to visit the site a number of times a week over the past couple of years I’ve noticed my visits have become much less frequent.
I discovered today that The K Chronicles is no longer part of your line up and realised that my last reason for visiting salon.com once a week just disappeared.
Thanks for providing my K fix weekly over the past years, perhaps one day you’ll reconsider re-instating it. In the meantime I’ll be getting my fix over at http://www.tonic.com/the-k-chronicles/.
As an aside, I’d have more respect for Salon if you actually acknowledged the completion of the comic’s run on the site.
but your strip was the only reason I read salon!
and now they’re acting like you were never there!