Cartoonists With Attitude

*EMAIL/LETTERS OF THE WEEK…

re: Star Wars strip-

(Holding up a beer) Here’s to you, guy.

That was one of the funner bits I’ve seen in a while. (Especially the
gentle kick-in-the-knee to the one guy in Hollywood who would laugh with
you, which would be Kevin Smith.)
I assume you’ve avoided the new cartoon movie, too.

-Jeff // San Francisco
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My younger daughter turned 16 yesterday; my older daughter is leaving home
day-after-tomorrow. We’ve been in a record heat wave. I shopped ahead. I started
baking before the heat of the day. Two layers, each sliced in two, filled, frosted and
chilled in a struggling dripping fridge. It is time to celebrate. I remember:
Candles!@#$? I look in the cupboard… and find two new packages, untouched, pearly
white, two packs of eight!

Keith, I’m sure you can reduce this to something universal. In case it is not clear,
I’ll tell you that yesterday this seemed a MAJOR victory! Thank you for your work, your
art, your expression of our fears and reminder of our joys.

Miriam (in Portland, Oregon)
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Hey Keith, I’ve been meaning to drop you a line for a while now. my
girlfriend (now wife) bought me one of your books 3 years ago and I’ve
been hooked ever since. she’s from san fran I’m from utah we met in
new england and are now living in DC. we got a lot of strange looks as
an interracial couple but now that we’re married, people actually
look at us and smile. love the strip, I have them all now and love the
band. anything new on the horizon?

at a recent game with a topic of famous people i tried
to depict you, unsuccessfully. The new in-laws said it wasn’t fair
because you weren’t famous . I beg to differ, in my world your very
famous. keep up the good work and if your ever in DC look me up.

R.
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Hey Keith,

I am one of those old comic strip lovers. I have every
Trudeau/Doonesbury book and a hundred more from people like Addams and
Bizarro. I find the humor lifts the day and like your stuff gets me to
laugh and think at the same time but not necessarily in that order.

What got me to write was the “Hi-lingual” strip. As the T&D director of
a truly multi-national company and having to deal with the world
population every day, I love that strip and would love to share it with
some of my colleagues.

Should you find yourself in the Seattle area and need a tour guide, me
and the Mrs. would love to play host but in the meantime, keep on
cranking out the good stuff and hope the Seattle PI will keep your strip
running.

Cheers,

L.

And a video of the week.

This is yesterday’s cartoon from Pulitzer Prize Winner Michael Ramirez.

Hillary is taking the “I” and “Y” in “Unity” to build “Hillary.” But why is there a giant red “H_LLAR_” right next to it? Where did those letters come from? There’s also the problem of it not even remotely representing what Hillary did at the DNC Convention.

A disappointing choice from McCain. I was looking forward to drawing Romney again.

The only worthwhile criticism they have of Obama is that he doesn’t have enough foreign policy experience. (John McCain, you may have heard, lived for some time overseas.) Are we to believe Palin has more experience than Obama and is ready to face down Ahmadinejad?

Here are some covers I drew for the Anchorage Press around the time Palin was taking the Governor’s office there.

I have refused to believe for quite some time now that the McCain campaign would be generous enough to actually consider Sarah Palin as his running mate, and now everyone’s going insane suggesting it might really be her.

Palin is governor of a state with a smaller population than Barack Obama’s state senate district in Illinois. She has served less than half a term, her largest elected role before that being mayor of a town of 3,000 people. She’s currently being investigated for abusing the power of her office. And this is the person who’s going to be projected as ready to lead the United States if a 72-year-old McCain keels over? Alrighty then.

Palin eliminates the greatest talking point the GOP has over Obama- that he’s not experienced enough to be president- and suggests that their plan will be pulling in disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters. Which is really a stunning example of how the Republican Party has no understanding of women whatsoever. I’m sure a few Hillary supporters remain upset that their choice didn’t make a ticket, but I don’t think McCain picking a younger, prettier, but immensly less-qualified woman to get the promotion Hillary didn’t is really going to be a choice move for middle-age female voters.

I have refused to believe for quite some time now that the McCain campaign would be generous enough to actually consider Sarah Palin as his running mate, and now everyone’s going insane suggesting it might really be her.

Palin is governor of a state with a smaller population than Barack Obama’s state senate district in Illinois. She has served less than half a term, her largest elected role before that being mayor of a town of 3,000 people. She’s currently being investigated for abusing the power of her office. And this is the person who’s going to be projected as ready to lead the United States if a 72-year-old McCain keels over? Alrighty then.

Palin eliminates the greatest talking point the GOP has over Obama- that he’s not experienced enough to be president- and suggests that their plan will be pulling in disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters. Which is really a stunning example of how the Republican Party has no understanding of women whatsoever. I’m sure a few Hillary supporters remain upset that their choice didn’t make a ticket, but I don’t think McCain picking a younger, prettier, but immensly less-qualified woman to get the promotion Hillary didn’t is really going to be a choice move for middle-age female voters.

*LOOKING FOR SF FOLKS TO POST FLIERS..
I’ve got posters for my three events happening in San Francisco in September. I need some good folk to post some around town. If you’re into it, send me your address (keef@kchronicles.com), and I’ll mail these suckas out to you.

*EXTRA!! EXTRA!! ADDITIONAL EVENT IN SAN FRANCISCO!!
I just found out that the hostel organization that I used to work for is having their own Keith Knight Hostel Comic Art Exhibition!!

If you’ve been reading the K Chronicles over the years, you know that I used to work at a San Francisco Youth Hostel. I’ve drawn more than a few strips about my adventures there.

Now my old co-worker, Greg H., has organized an exhibit in my honor!! Nice!!

The opening is happening on Saturday, sEpt. 20th, from 7pm-9pm. There’ll be wine and cheese and moi (and a lot of confused hostellers).

The hostel is located at 685 Ellis St. near Larkin. (note: this is one of the sister hostels to the one I used to work at).

*THE BEST THING I GOT FROM THE SAN DIEGO COMIC CON..
..was a comic book called “Pug Davis”, by Rebecca Davis. It’s about a guy who was a janitor, but now has a giant dog head and flies around the universe kicking ass with his homosexual sidekick. Nutty stuff. Check out Rebecca’s website at www.sugarboukas.com.

And, of course, the new Bob the Angry Flower Book.

Really?

Really?

Oh, and that speech thing. Totally awesome.

Really?

Really?

Oh, and that speech thing. Totally awesome.

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Woooo! Woooo! Wooo!

Next Week: The GOP’s Black Republican Jam