Keith Knight (cartoonist)

Keith Edgar Knight, Jr. (born August 24, 1966 in Malden, Massachusetts) is an American cartoonist and musician. While his work is humorous and universal in appeal, he also often deals with political, social, and racial issues. His regular feature The K Chronicles appears in Salon.com and previously appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, while (Th)ink was published on several websites, especially African-American sites. A syndicated daily strip for United Media, The Knight Life, was launched in 2008. Knight is also the artist for two strips appearing in Mad, "Father O'Flannity's Hot Tub Confessions" and "Bully Baby".

Knight also appears in The Marginal Prophets, a hip-hop band. Previously a resident of San Francisco, in 2007 he moved to Los Angeles, California. He was raised in the Boston area.

Awards

In 2007, The K Chronicles won the Harvey Kurtzman Award for Best Syndicated Comic Strip. The other nominees were Antiques: The Comic Strip, Doonesbury, Maakies and Mutts. [1]

The K Chronicles has twice won "Best Comic Strip" in the Glyph Comics Awards, in 2006 and 2007.

Bibliography

• Dances with Sheep (1997, Manic D Press) ISBN 0-91639-750-5
• Fear of a Black Marker (2000, Manic D Press) ISBN 0-91639-763-7
• What a Long Strange Strip It's Been (2002, Manic D Press) ISBN 1-89183-030-9
• Red, White, Black & Blue: a (th)ink anthology (2004, Manic D Press) ISBN 0-91639-788-2
• The Passion of the Keef (2005, Manic D Press) ISBN 0-91639-767-X
• Are We Feeling Safer Yet? A (th)ink Anthology (2007, Top Shelf Productions) ISBN 978-0-97880-530-2
• The Complete K Chronicles, a compilation of the first four K Chronicles books (2008, Dark Horse Comics) ISBN 978-1-59307-943-7
• Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts (2005, New Village Press) ISBN 978-0-97660-543-0
• I Left my Arse in San Francisco (2008, self-published)
• The Knight Life: "Chivalry Ain't Dead" (2010, Grand Central Publishing) ISBN 978-0-44654-866-3

Discography

• Twist the Nob (1997)
• dead hippie bootleg : the Marginal Prophets live!! (2002)
• Bohemian Rap CD (2004)

References

• Lanier, Chris (November/December 2008). "'The comics page shouldn't be like a jury...'". The Believer 6 (9): 71–78. 

External links

• The K Chronicles
• The Marginal Prophets
• The Knight Life