Product Description

The Complete K Chronicles gathers together hundreds of Keith Knight's funniest, sharpest, most touching, and topical K Chronicles comic strips of the last several years! The K Chronicles is a weekly syndicated strip based on Keith Knight's life. With his signature wit and wacky, hilarious drawings, Knight brings laughs by the barrel as he examines life's pleasures and frustrations, both great and small, from the political to the personal. Dark Horse is honored to present this omnibus-sized collection of the brilliance and silliness of K Chronicles! Keith Knight is also the artist behind MAD Magazine's "Father o'Flannity's Hot Tub Confessions & Bully Baby," as well as the Sportsknight strip in ESPN the Magazine. He is also a rapper and gives multimedia lectures about race, media, politics, and cartoons.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #790799 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 500 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Like an urban Life in Hell, rapper/cartoonist Knight's ink-heavy strip is big on sight gags, inventive panel layouts and exaggerated gestures—and this omnibus volume shows a revealing arc in the strip's tone. The first part of the book, which begins in the early 1990s, sees Knight riffing on food, family, music and the life of a comic book artist in a scratchy, expressive style. As the strips progress and move into the 21st century, real-world events start to intrude, and the topic veers toward the political more often than not. Knight is at his best when he's in more lighthearted territory, and the second half of the book is more preachy than it ought to be. On the whole, though, it's time well spent with a very intelligent and percpetive writer, and also serves as an insightful historical document of the movement of the American zeitgeist over the past decade. (Aug.)
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From School Library Journal
Running for 15 years in over 30 weeklies, including Z Magazine and Salon, The K Chronicles marries sociopolitical commentary with autobiography, retooling these components into sometimes outrageous and always amusingly pointed vignettes. In this omnibus volume reprinting the first four collections of the award-winning strip, the African American cartoonist addresses racism ("The funkiest sho' on cable! Black Eye for the White Guy"), dates-from-hell suffered by his women friends ("Condoms? What for? I'm straight...I'm white...& I only do cocaine!"), his second job in a youth hostel, marriage to a copacetic German gal, the excesses of the Bush administration ("the U.S. war-gy!!"), and an attempted pickup at San Diego's Comic-Con ("We're not gay. We're cartoonists." "What's the difference?" "Gays make more money!"). Goofy, minimalist art enhances his verbal jabs, and the overall effect is subversive yet lighthearted. Recommended only for adult collections owing to sexual innuendo, references to illegal substances, and occasionally strong language.—M.C.
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Customer Reviews

KEEF RULZ!
I have been a fan of Keith Knight for years, and his humor is wise, and kind, yet incisive. What can I say? BUY THIS BOOK. You'll be sore from laughing before you get halfway through it.

...and that's just the start for Keith Knight's comics...
This book collects the first 4 "K Chronicles" books, reprinted large and many with commentary from the cartoonist, plus a foreword from Kyle Baker. This is not only a great collection for long-time fans of Keith Knight, but also a great introductory book for newer fans as well.

Of course, there's more to Keith Knight than this book. He does two other comic strips, "(th)ink," a political single panel comic and "Knight Life," which is basically a daily version of his weekly strip that's running in papers across America.

So if you've just started reading Keef's work, check this book out. If you've been following his work for years, check it out anyway.

My Life's Little Victory!
As a huge fan of Mr. Knight's work, I was first in line to order a copy of the Complete K Chronicles. Indeed it is a huge tome, almost as thick as my phonebook, and almost as funny. Collecting the first four collections of the K-Chronicles, the CK also offers up personal notes and sidebars for alot of the strips that help give some insight into the twisted world of its creator. Its nice to have all of my favorite strips in one handy and heavy book, along with some much apreciated peaks into Mr. Knight's sketch book. The only complaint I might have is that I would have liked to seen more commentary about the strips, but the work really speaks for itself. Funny, edgy, real, funny, original, and more than a little erotic. What more could you ask for?

I can't wait to see what type of work Keef's son produces after his dad forces him into cartooning.