Seven Days, the Vermont alt-weekly, now includes K Chronicles by Keith Knight. Knight, a recent visiting artist at The Center for Cartoon Studies, has been publishing his semi-autobiographical webcomic since 1993 and it is syndicated across the country. In 2015, Knight published a collection of 20 years of strips commenting on police brutality, They Shoot Black People, Don’t They? With the current political and social issues, his body of work is even more important. As Seven Days writes, “Black Lives Matter protests across the country show: Art about race and racism is as much a part of this moment as COVID-19 case counts.”
Keith Knight’s life has also inspired a live-action/animated comedy, Woke, being picked up to series by Hulu. Knight wrote the script with Marshall Todd. Lamorne Morris (New Girl) stars in the series about an African-American cartoonist on the cusp of mainstream success when his mild comics take a provocative tone after a run-in with police.
Read in Seven Days about the new syndication, and visit his site to find more of his work: kchronicles.com.
Tags: cartoonist, CCS Visiting Artist, K Chronicles, Keith Night, Lamorne Morris, Marshall Todd, Seven Days, Woke
