Drawing Controversy

6. Keith Knight on Newspaper Comics, Civil Rights History, and Getting a Hulu Show

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Keith Knight (cartoonist behind The Knight Life, K Chronicles, (Th)ink, and Father O'Flannity's Hot Tub Confessions) joins Jordan to provide an inside look at several years' worth of his comics, as well as the inner-workings of his two season Hulu TV show, WOKE. Keith also shares his insights on Civil Rights history, life inside prisons, and his Black Mugshots project. 

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Follow Keith at @keefknight on Twitter and @iamkeithknight on IG

Keith's Web-store (https://keithknight.bigcartel.com/) 

WORKS CITED:

  • Best of Keith's work from the Mad Magazine "Strip Club" (https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2012/03/12/the-mad-strip-club-%E2%80%94-father-oflannity-donald-trump, https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/22/the-mad-strip-club-father-oflannity-kanye-west) [5:00]
  • Famed Photo of Civil Rights Icon/Little Rock Nine student, Elizabeth Eckford, and article on her legacy (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/09/littlerock200709) [32:50]
  • NPR article on WOKE (https://www.npr.org/2020/09/08/909707072/in-woke-cartoonist-keith-knight-drew-from-a-real-life-wake-up-call) 
  • Controversial "race card" comic (https://neighborhoodview.org/2020/08/27/keep-drawing-keep-thinking-the-keith-knight-story/) and Obama voter comic (https://www.comicsbeat.com/keith-knight-cartoon-causes-kerfluffle-in-jersey/) [42:00-43:00]
  • Keith's Slideshow Comic (https://kchronicles.com/lectures.html) 
  • Collection of Keith's race-politics cartoons (https://theworld.org/stories/2016-10-03/keith-knights-cartoons-get-heart-us-conversation-race) 
  • Nikole Hannah Jones denied tenure story (https://www.npr.org/2021/07/06/1013315775/after-tenure-controversy-nikole-hannah-jones-will-join-howard-faculty-instead-of) [44:00]
  • Article Explaining Ilya Shapiro controversy (https://www.readtpa.com/p/ilya-shapiro) [45:00]
  • Most comprehensive statistics report on prisoners and incarceration (https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html)
  • The Dangers of Mugshots (https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/racist-police-practices-mug-shots-normalize-criminalization-black-americans-ncna1235694)
  • Info on Riker's Island (https://www.pbs.org/wnet/rikers/incarceration-faq/). See here too (https://www.vera.org/its-a-torture-chamber#:~:text=The%20notorious%20jail%20complex%20Rikers,as%20they%20wait%20for%20trial.)
  • Utah's new mugshot law (https://www.standard.net/news/government/2021/feb/05/utah-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-prohibit-mugshot-distribution-until-after-conviction/)
  • Uvalde "Far Side" Parody strip (https://kchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-07-18_uvalde.gif) [58:00]
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