Cartoonist Keith Knight: "Comics Can Save the World!" (Valente)

Using his own work and the work of others, Keith makes the case that cartooning can be a bridge to understanding, compassion, and even, liberation.

Keith Knight is a critically acclaimed comics creator and cartoonist. He has received the Comic-Con Inkpot, a CXC Master Cartoonist Award, several Glyph Awards for best comic strip, a Harvey Award and has been nominated for an Eisner, and an NAACP Image Award.



Knight is the creator of the long-running autobio comic strip, the K Chronicles. One of the most widely distributed alt-weekly comic strips since its launch in the early nineties. His socio-political single panel cartoon, (th)ink, has graced the pages of both Black newspapers/websites, and alt-weeklies.  And he drew the daily syndicated strip, the Knight Life for over a decade until 2019.



In 2020, Knight's life and comix were the inspiration for the comedy series, Woke, on Hulu.  Knight served as co-creator, writer, and executive producer on the show. It ran for two seasons.



Knight is a graduate of Malden High School and Salem State University, where he received an honorary doctorate from the school in 2022.



Photo Credit: Cornell Watson