Some of the characters in the second panel are based on people in the photos I took on Inauguration Day. Little do they know!
On a totally unrelated note, as I sit here in the midst of a two-day long spell of freezing rain — I can’t believe winter isn’t over yet. Seems like it has been cold and bleak for long enough.
(th)ink by Keith Knight
the K Chronicles by Keith Knight
*YEAH, YEAH..THE K CHRONICLES THIS WEEK IS FROM 2002!!
It just seemed appropriate to run it again.
*LETTERS/EMAILS OF THE WEEK…
Sir!
First, thanks for the book. Writing/drawing it I mean. Don’t worry. I paid for mine.
(POWELL’S! Best reason to live in Portland!)
The commentary at the bottom of the strips was great. I’ve been reading the strip for a
long time now (I think in The Metro at first), and to see what you like or think about a
given strip was really cool. The girl on the train tracks in particular stuck with me a
long time. Oh, and the face on “Keith experiences a bidet for the first time” may be
your finest work. F—ing brilliant.
One note, and this is a product of having worked (once upon a time) at Streetlight
Records’ San Jose store for way too long: Your editor goofed on the band I.D. for your
note on page 317. The Nails did “88 Lines About 44 Women,” not Jim Carroll. I don’t
doubt the editor was thinking of “People Who Died.” Yeah, I know. Too much free time.
Eight years in a record store doesn’t wash off easily. (An aside: I still chuckle over
the old Marginal Prophets album flyers. The “black/jewish relations” dental photo still
occupies a synapse or two.)
Cheers, and maybe The Oregonian will be more amenable to the new strip (now that I’m up
here),
P.
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Good job!
I wanted to write and thank you for your cartoons.I read them in the Funny Times.Your comics are clever,thought provoking,positive,and above all – funny! While many other cartoons demonstrate a rather narrow view of the world,or seem to have an axe to grind,yours are refreshingly broad in thier topics and at the same time genuinely hilarious.
Thankyou-
S., Glenwood Springs Co.
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This isn’t the most timely news, but your 10/31 link has a bad link for the
phrase “here is an interview I did today”. You link to the GIF in the
article, but you wanted this link:
http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2008/10/30/interview-keith-knight/
My wife and I are big, long term fans, buying all the books, reading you on
salon. I was just setting up a new computer and I stumbled across your
blog.
cheers,
t
*THIS JUST IN!!
I’ll be doing my world famous slideshow at Wondercon 2009 in San Francisco at the end of Feb.
when: Saturday, Feb. 28th 4:30pm-5:30pm
where: rm 236/238
I’ll be showing K Chronicles, (th)ink and the Knight Life, with a special focus on last year’s historic election!!
*IT STILL FEELS FUNNY HEARING “PRESIDENT OBAMA”…
The Fetus formerly known as “Lil Gravy” began crawling this week. Funny thing is, he wouldn’t do it when we were in the room. We would walk out of the room and come back 5 seconds later and he’d be across the room. He’s a ninja!!
*THE FUNNIEST CONDOM COMMERCIAL EVER!!
So Gitmo is set to be closed down…eventually. It’s going to take the Obama administration a year to do it, with Karl Rove predicting he won’t succeed.
I do have one question that I’d like to see a reporter ask Obama. Since the illegal detentions began, those that resisted their imprisonment through hunger strikes have been tied down and force fed. Is this happening right now?
Is there any chance the Minnesota courts might just rule that Norm Coleman is legally too stupid to be a senator?
I was trying to come up with a funny cartoon about weird jobs that would be “recession-proof”, but I came up with crap. No one is safe when things suck this much. But although the economic crisis is hitting every sector, it sucks the most for people who were already living on the margins or in lower income brackets. My sympathy for unemployed bankers with offshore tax shelters to keep them warm while they scale back on private-jet travel is less than minimal.
If this cartoon makes no sense to you, then you have blissfully managed to avoid passing within 50 feet of any magazine rack selling celebrity gossip rags.
By the way, the WSJ is actually one of the few papers that is doing quite well, I just put in in here because I wanted to make a joke about a pregnant stock index. But the Detroit Free Press actually is in major trouble, if you haven’t heard–they actually stopped delivering the print paper most days of the week. In retrospect, I should have squeezed the NYTimes in here–they just had to take a $250 million loan to stay in business.
Newspapers everywhere (the ones that still remain, anyway) have been taking all kinds of drastic measures to stay afloat, including jumping on some disturbing trends–like eliminating all their comics and editorial cartoons! So this really isn’t all that far-fetched. I’m so NOT in a recession-proof industry.
Finally, how sick are you of the phrases “Baby Bump,” “Baby Joy” and “Celebrity Baby Boom?”
Update: I just read that News Corp. (parent company of Dow Jones) is actually having a hard time after all, and the Journal has had to make layoffs, though not as many as at other papers. Sigh…
This was of course inspired by my own unexpected trip to the ER when I broke my foot while making a dare-devil attempt to… pull on my boots. Thing is, heath care is not a finite thing you can save for–like a car, or a house, etc. It’s something you need insurance for, because you could suddenly and very unexpectedly need a hell of a lot of it. If I didn’t have health insurance, all those X-rays and trips to the ER and the doctor would have cost… eeek!
Universal health care now! Etc.
By the way, here’s another cartoon I did about HSAs after I first heard the daft idea in a Bush speech: “Too Darn Healthy”, and here’s one about crappy health insurance in general, “Gold-Plated Health Plans.”
P.S. Yes, I’m catching up on cartoon posting, I’ve been quite indisposed with my borken foot–it got all painful and swollen and I had to keep it way up in the air for a few weeks, not a good position to use the computer in!
