Buzzle.com Cartoonist Wins Glyph Award For Outstanding Achievement In Black Comics

The K Chronicles won this year’s Glyph Award for best comic strip at the 2006 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) in Philadelphia. Keith Knight’s self-syndicated strip was chosen over four other comics:

The Boondocks, Aaron McGruder (Universal Press Syndicate)
Candorville, Darrin Bell (Washington Post Writers Group)
Mama’s Boyz, Jerry Craft (King Features Weekly Service)
(th)ink, Keith Knight (self-syndicated)

The Glyph Awards recognize the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year. It strives to honor those who have made the greatest contributions to the comics medium in terms of critical and commercial impact.

KEITH KNIGHT IS NOMINATED FOR 2006 HARVEY AWARD AS BEST STRIP

The K Chronicles has just been nominated for the 2006 Harvey Award, as best syndicated strip or panel. The other nominees are:

The Boondocks, Aaron McGruder (Universal Press Syndicate)
Maakies, Tony Millionaire (self-syndicated)
Mutts, Patrick McDonnell (King Features Syndicate) The Amazing Spiderman, Stan Lee and Larry Leiber (King Features Syndicate)

KEITH KNIGHT APPEARANCES IN JUNE 2006
Cambridge, MA

Book signing @ Million Year Picnic
99 Mt. Auburn St, Harvard Sq. Thursday, June 8th6 pm
New York City
MOCCA Festival @ The Puck Building
Lafayette St. Sat/Sun, June 10/11th 10am-6pm
New Orleans, LA
Book signing/slide show @ Handsome Willy’s
218 S. Robertson St., Friday, June 23rd 7pm

The K Chronicles is a weekly, semi-autobiographical comic strip based on the life of cartoonist & rapper Keith Knight. It offers a strange and hilariously twisted view of the world through the eyes of a young, urban, African-American male. Fresh, sharp, edgy, and topical; the K Chronicles threaten to bring back the "funny" to the funny pages.

Keith Knight is an award-winning cartoonist and part of a new generation of talented young African-American artists, who infuse their work with urgency, edge, humor, satire, politics and race. In addition to The K Chronicles, Knight produces (th)ink, a weekly single-panel; he is also a frequent contributor to MAD Magazine and ESPN The Magazine. His work has been collected in six books so far.