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Chargement... The Knight Life: "Chivalry Ain't Dead"par Keith Knight
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. When I received my advance reader copy of "The Knight Life" I expected to be underwhelmed. The author, cartoonist Keith Knight is a young, urban, hip, black man. I am an old, ordinary, suburban, white woman. I was skeptical about finding that our sense of humor might have anything in common. I was wrong. Not only was I wrong, I quickly discovered that his cartoons are laugh-out-loud funny. The book contained only a handful of strips with which I was unable to connect. With over 200 pages in the book, that means I had a strong connection to his brand of humor. Thanks, Keef, for a good read. If you're anything like me, the first thing you've always done with the Sunday paper is pull the comics out to read them and get your laugh on. "The Knight Life" is a nationally syndicated strip that I had not seen before. "The Knight Life" is a collection of the strips from the past two years. You are introduced to Keith's (otherwise known as "Keef) German wife Kerstin, his father, his mother, and a motley cast and crew of recurring characters. This book is FUNNY! I found myself smiling in some places, chuckling in others, and downright laughing out loud in some places. The book is generously sized at 8-1/2" x 10-7/8" and would make a great coffee table book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The Knight Life is a hilariously twisted view of life through the eyes and pen of its creator, community-oriented urban hipster and award-winning cartoonist Keith Knight. The Knight Life deftly blends political insight and neurotic humor in a uniquely fluid and dynamic style, offering a comic strip that's fresh, sharp, topical and funny. Designed for daily newspapers, The Knight Life follows Knight's long-running, 2007 Harvey Award-winning weekly comic strip "The K Chronicles," which appears on salon.com. An unabashedly provocative political and social satire, The Knight Life tackles contemporary issues like consumer culture, bacon, the media, race, family and everything else, gently mocking the minutiae of daily life with self-deprecating humor, honesty and goofiness-a combination that's perfect for the comics. And The Knight Life's energetic style reminds readers that comics can look funny as well as read funny. The result is accessible yet edgy, compassionate and political-and never preachy. Cartoonist and comic historian R.C. Harvey said, "The Knight Life is undeniably the best new laugh- and thought-provoker on the comics page. Not since Calvin and Hobbes has there been so novel an entertainment in the funnies." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I don't normally read comics (as I don't normally read the newspaper) but as a kid that was the first section I read. While I'm not familiar with The Knight Life I did find it quite interesting.
I really liked Keith Knight's sense of humor. He is witty, self-deprecating, and smart. The humor in these comics strips was right up my alley. I liked the notes that he put with some of the strips. He lets us know when some were changed for publication, what he liked about them, why he wrote them, etc. It was nice to get inside his head a bit.
Being that the strip is auto-biographical it makes me wonder. Obviously the scenes are sensationalized a bit, but you wonder what really happened to make him write that particular strip.
There were quite a few good ones that I had to share. Some of them really make you think for a minute before you start the next one. I guess that a sign of a great cartoonist, being able to get a point across without being blatantly obvious.
I liked this one and I'll be keeping my eyes open for more of his comics. ( )