*Tom Gammill sent over the cover of the Harvard Lampoon he did all those years ago. I reference it in the strip I did about the Simpson’s reading.
Excellent! I especially love the dog!
*LETTERS/EMAILS OF THE WEEK:
Greetings Mr Keef.
I’m in on the $100 sponsorship & just paid via Paypal. I’d love to get the newest th(ink) book you’ve got coming out. Don’t know which prints I’d like signed yet – have to think about it and get back to you. Deadline on that?
I enjoy all your work and really admire your . . .well. Actually, I’m not sure what exactly I admire and my brain’s too pasty right now to think it through. But I admire it like all get out. Thanks for the laughs over the past decade or so. If you’re ever in Portland and want to stay in Suburbia with our two-parent four-kid whitebread family and have my oldest wanna-be-a-political-comics-artist son bludgeon you with hospitality, by all means look us up. Have Kerstin check your meds first, but, by all means, look us up.
M.
(If you’d like to join M. and donate to make my mercury rise, go here.-kk)
Hi Keef,
I just read your “it ain’t that different” comic in my City Weekly in slc, ut. That’s a weird one. I mean I guess it’s all the same but it’s dark this time.
You cool, man? I said that cause it’s funny. And the Subject of this email was an autocorrect. It should read “Keef”, but kerf is funnier.
But really, everything ok?
B.
iPhone over and out.
(i’m okay b!! -kk)
Sigh. Yet another one of the “Lost Tribe of People Who Don’t Have Cell
Phones” has been hunted to extinction. I know how the Buffalo felt. Every
day I turn around and I swear the cell phone kiosks in the mall creep closer
to me.
(actually, I suspect you already had a cell phone, but it is weird to be one
of the few people in Canada or the USA not to have a cell phone, and I was
tickled to see this cartoon)
Love the work…when I get back to work…soon, dammit, I hope…will have
to buy some books.
Sincerely,
E.
I’m going to be honest, I hated your comic up until this point. Not that you care, but I thought I’d let you know that this weeks comic changed that. I look forward to your next one.
j.
Hi,
I need to know if prophets are true or not. If so, I feel so lost that I can
not take a decision in my life. Also, my brother has a bg problem. Can a
prophet tell me what would God tell me? I am really depressed as well as my
brother is.
I need a prophetic help. I am fed up with running after false things.
I am a true Christian lady who believes in the power of prayers.
Thank you a lot!
A.
(should I send this lady a marginal prophets “dead hippie bootleg” cd?-kk)
I’ve been doing a whole bunch of interviews lately. Partly for the new book and partly just good timing!
Interview #1 is in, of course, Danish. I’m huge there, I tell ya, HUGE!!
Interview #2 is the first for a new podcast by Tom (Tall Tale Radio) Racine, called Geek Papas. I’m honored to be the first. Thanks Tom!
Interview #3 is with Arturo Garcia from Racialicious.com. (I probably shouldn’t have done this interview while working on an original art piece under a time limit):
The first to guess the right amount of times I say “ya know” wins a prize!
Interview #4 is with Tom Spurgeon, the Comics Reporter!
What all these interviewers had in common is they asked really good questions. Not the sort of questions that you get from a general newspaper piece. Cool!
It was another fabulous San Diego Comic Con! Thanks to everyone who came out and picked up the new (th)ink collection. The mystery of page 31 will be addressed in this very blog soon.
Thanks to everyone for coming out last Sunday for my slideshow at Revolution Books. When I rolled up at 2:50pm, there was absolutely nobody in the store. Half hour later, all seats were filled.
It was especially nice to see fellow cartoonist and writer Tom Gammill in the house. I met Tom at the National Cartoonist Society’s annual convention when I crashed it in downtown L.A. He makes funny videos about cartoonists:
Anyhoo…I incorporated a lot of new stuff into the slideshow, and folks snatched up a whole lotta books and prints… especially the large print of my Gil Scott-Heron piece. The store asked me to bring more by to sell.
*NEXT TWO SIGNINGS: MEDIA PARK (DOWNTOWN CULVER CITY) & LEIMERT PARK BOOK FAIR!!
-I’ll be sharing a table with fellow Culver City Cartoon Art Collective member Darrell Fusaro a Culver City’s annual Merchant’s Fair, Weds. June 22, 3:30-7pm , at Media Park in downtown Culver City.
-And I’ll have a table at the Leimert Park Book Fair, one of L.A.’s fastest growing book festivals, Saturday, June 25, 10am-5pm. I’m trying to get them to let me do a slideshow.
*Looking forward to my slideshow event this Sunday at Revolution Books on Hollywood Blvd. I first visited the shop when my bud Eric Drooker came to town for an event celebrate his work on the film about Allen Ginsburg’s Howl.
I did an interview on KPFK’s Michael Slate show this morning, despite being up til 3am working on deadlines. Thankfully, Mr. Slate made it real easy for me cuz he was extremely familiar with my work. We talked censorship, Katrina, politics and more. You can check out the show here..and listen to the interview before I go on–it’s effing harrowing!!
Anyhoo..The event starts at 3pm on Sunday, the exact time that J.J. Abrams does a free event at the Hammer Museum across town…which one are you going to?
the details: Keef (th)ink book release/slideshow
Sunday, June 12, 2011 3pm
@Revolution Books
5726 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 463-3500
*IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED FOR THE EISNERS YET..
Vote for my good pal Shannon Wheeler’s I Thought You Would Be Funnier collection of (mostly) rejected New Yorker cartoons. If you’re in the “industry”, you can vote online here.
*EMAILS/LETTERS OF THE WEEK
Hey Keith!!
Man, I can’t tell you how awesome it was to hear my favorite cartoonist on my favorite radio station!!! I can only imagine the look on my co-workers faces as I completely stopped working and just about had a geekgasm right here at my desk! =P It was amazing to hear you tackle questions from a true fan, and fellow political progressive. I only wish that Michael could’ve had you on for the full hour! =)
Ever since I heard that you were moving down here from the bay I’ve been hoping that you and KPFK would cross paths, so that your respective audiences could find each other. I’ve been hoping that you might be able to afford to donate some books to their fund drives as well. It just seemed like a great way to raise awareness of your ever-inspiring work to the KPFK audience. If you do want to do this, let me know. I’d love to make a big (or at least, as big as I can manage at the time) donation to you to support that. It would truly warm my heart to support both of my favorite progressive sources or both laughter and education in one action.
Keep up the great work, Sir!! Unfortunately, I won’t be able to catch you at Revolution books this weekend, but I hope to see you again soon….especially since I can’t afford to make it to Comic-Con this year.
Last week you had a wonderful strip where you debated your wife and compared babies to
immigrants who don’t know the language. I found that hilarious and a great way to look at
the issue–thanks.
I used the idea and did some research to find out that babies under 1 year old are 5% of
the population and “drain” almost $200M a year out of the local economy. And then I
posted such on my blog.
The “(Th)ink” cartoon that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle “96 Hours” supplement this past Thurday (5/26/11) was great!
As a program manager and 27 year veteran of a health care program in Stockton (California), I couldn’t help being drawn to your amusing picture of the nursing mom. Loved those street signs, too! I’m wondering if you realize how appropriate your message was! Not only does breastfeeding save tons of dollars, but studies have shown that breastfed babies have higher IQs… thus, going to college is more likely for breastfed babies, dollars saved or not!
In case you’re not familiar with WIC, it’s the federal supplemental food program for low-income women, infants, and children. There are over 80 agencies in California, and it’s a national program that came about in the mid-1970s and has expanded to all 50 states (as well as territories, military bases abroad,etc.)… In addition to providing vouchers for healthy foods (like fresh produce, lowfat dairy products, and whole grains), we are mandated to conduct nutrition education and promote breastfeeding.
I was inspsired by your cartoon and wonder if you think there’s a chance in the world that other cartoonists might consider a “theme day” in August when “World Breastfeeding Month” (WBM) is celebrated…. Wouldn’t it be incredibly fabulous if every cartoonist created a strip about breastfeeding for one day during that month? (The first week is the biggie with lots of festivities going on worldwide.) If you think that this could happen, let me know and I could send you more information about WBM, and maybe you could help such an amazing feat be accomplished! I know it’s kind of crazy, but … you are a creative person, so I thought you might have some thoughts on this.
Meanwhile, thanks so much for the positive attention to breastfeeding!
Sincerely,
J. in Stockton, CA
(i think it’d be a GREAT idea to get a ton of cartoonists to do stuff about breastfeeding in august..whaddaya think?-kk)
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Dear Mr. Knight,
It was a pleasure, as always, to see you at WonderCon this year. Still not sure how much of an
impression was made on my son Joseph – although I did point out to him, as you were drawing
in our copy, that this was the actual man who had drawn all the cartoons in the book.
One curious note – his older brother Dinzel (the one who is now 5’10” and 190 pounds) was somewhat
distressed that I’d gotten his brother a copy of “Chivalry Ain’t Dead”. When pressed, he finally admitted
that he thought your cartoons were fine for mature, wordly fouteen-year-olds like himself, but perhaps
a bit on the inappropriate side for innocent young ten-year-olds like Joseph.
I managed not to laugh out loud, as I know he finds that off-putting. Eventually managed to assure him
that these were Mr. Knight’s family-friendly, newspaper strips. He was mollified by this.
Sincerely yours,
R.
*AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST..
Marginal Prophet Chernobyl Def G recently pointed out that this Kia commercial from a year ago may be the coolest ad of all time. I concur. (the song is one of my favorite hip-hop songs ever!!)
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