Cartoonists With Attitude

You get what you pay for. If you’re an insurance industry lobbyist, that is.

This woman was paid real U.S. currency to write these words:

By staying in Hawaii, the president has sent the message that the situation really isnt all that serious, that things can proceed just fine until hes back. And isnt it that kind of reasoning that emboldens our never-vacationing enemies into thinking Christmas Day is the perfect time for them to strike?

The president took a nap! Do terrorists take naps? No, they don’t! They are specially trained with advanced methods of sleep deprivation. While the president sleeps, America’s enemies are loading their underwear with explosive chemicals and accidentally torching their testicles. Is the president torching his testicles? We can’t have a torched testicle gap!

Perhaps this picture is a more adequate rejoinder.

(th)ink by Keith Knight
the K Chronicles by Keith Knight

*GREETINGS FROM THE BLACK FOREST OF GERMANY…
They just reran my interview on the Story last night–Welcome all y’all who’ve never read my stuff before. I hope you’ll stick around..

I’m currently chillin’ in the tiny little town on Monchweiler, Germany with my wunderbar in-laws. We’re eating spaetzle and cake and schinken whilst drinking the local beer (Tannenzaepfle!!).

We took the Incredible Cuteness of Being sledding for the first time at 17 months. It probably wasn’t the most responsible thing I’ve ever done, but I didn’t crash the sled til I went on my solo runs.

The boy traumatized not by the snow, but by the horrendous temperature. We arrived on a day of record-setting cold. Minus 30 degrees celsius!! But it kicked up to zero the next day. Pretty harsh for a kid born in Southern California…

*GOOD RIDDANCE 2009!!
I don’t know about you, but this past year ranks up there as the worst of my short existence. Death, sickness, pain, suffering–And that’s just what’s happened to the print and comics industry!!

Nah–in all seriousness, I lost some close people this year..And as I stumble haphazardly into middle age, it’s just going to get worse. Ye olde circle of life I suppose..

But 2010 is shaping up to be a tasty year! I’ve got a new (th)ink collection coming, and the first collection of my daily strip, the Knight Life. Plus my first time as a special at the San Diego Comic Con. Also: the return of T-SHIRTS!! Bow down , fools!!

Just hope all of us and bounce back economically and start throwin’ some cash to where it really counts: Cartoonists and people who sell sh** on Etsy!!

Tschuss!!

It’s a classic Slowpoke this week, though one so old that I had to spend an hour removing Zip-a-Tone dots from the original scan. (For those of you not in the know, or too young to remember Zip-a-Tone, it’s a film we used to use to add dot shading to cartoons before the miracle of Photoshop.) So unless you own my first collection, Café Pompous, you probably haven’t seen this one.

Taking a week off over the holidays is part of my belief system (Slowpokedom), though I haven’t had much of a vacation. I’ve actually been moonlighting as a hostess and sommelier at a log cabin restaurant in an undisclosed location in the Rockies. (Longtime readers know I repair to my underground bunker in a cold, snowy place each holiday season.) Yes, the collapse of print media has come to this: cartoonists pouring wine in rustic dining establishments. I’m doing it partly for fun, though the extra cash is welcome too. So the next time you go out for dinner, be nice to the staff. Some of them might be syndicated. (You should, of course, be nice to the staff anyway.)

Comics!

• Rall on newspapers
• McFadden on the headlines of tomorrow
• Tomorrow on the headlines of past, part one and two
• Wheeler on the head trips of the past, present and future.

And at warisboring.com, David Axe presents an interesting take on the worries about Afghan soldiers being stoned all the time. He doesn’t seem to think it’s a big problem. “Afghan soldiers smoking pot is nationalism,” he says. “Everyone in Afghanistan smokes the reefer…it’s a national pastime.”

How’d we get stuck with baseball?

In today’s Minimum Security comic, Nikko hacks under protest: http://ping.fm/b7Zsj

Due either to distractions of the holiday season or cuz I’m just brain dead (or both), I forgot to note that I am the subject of a cartoonist survey at David Wasting Paper. Like yours truly, David is in his forties, draws, and plays guitar, all with the forbearance of a long-suffering wife. He has some other great surveys, including one with Bill Griffith.

Also cuz I yam braindeded, I mis-identified my choice of brush pen. It’s really a Pentel, not a Pilot. Like you give a shit. But somewhere in this infinite universe it matters. Some child’s cancer was cured. Some lonely man found love. Some woman found the missing mate to her hand-knitted sock. All thanks to the right choice of brush pen.

“Barack ‘n Bernanke’s Repair Shop“

In today’s “Minimum Security” comic, the lion denies eating anyone raw in days: http://ping.fm/XtinI

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Sorry for the late update. I just got back from spending the holiday far away from the internet.

Next Week: The Power of Ignorant Thinking