KEEP ME DRAWING
The comics industry is going through tremendous changes. Cartoonists like myself are trying to negotiate the new terrain and adapt as quickly as we can.
Some are thriving, others are throwing in the towel. Every month or so, I’m hearing about another cartoonist who is hanging up their pen because they’ve lost too many clients and/or venues for their work. But I’ve also had dozens of conversations with survivors as to how they’ve weathered the storm and even thrived, and most everyone replied: their readership.
Every successful cartoonist knows they’d be nothing without their readers. Nowadays, that special relationship between cartoonist and reader is more crucial than ever.
My belief is that I have 1000 super hardcore fans, and a lot more casual ones. Folks who continually support what I do by buying books, calendars and original art, hyping up my work on various online social networks, inviting me to speak at their school or festival, or syndicating or purchasing reprint rights to my work for their publication, presentation or on their website.
My goal is to get 250 of you to sponsor my work annually and permit me to do what I’ve been doing for close to two decades. Give you the funny, the political, the social, the racial, and the warm & fuzzy, without censorship.
Any amount is fine. $5 is as good as $5000. Just the fact that you’ve checked in sez, ” Hey, keep doing what you’re doing!”
What does your donation go toward?
$5-pays for a pad of smooth archival bristol paper (or a beer)
$10- pays for a six-pack of Micron Pigment markers (or a pastrami sandwich)
$25-pays for shipping another box of books from my publisher
$50-pays for a week’s rental of the studio I draw in
$250-pays for a table at a convention
$1000-pays for a month of medical insurance (or a serious bender)
If you’ve never dropped some scratch here, or haven’t in a while, please consider the delectable comic tasties I’m offering below as a way to support my work, this website, and my future endeavors. The offerings will change as time goes by.
$50 LEVEL- Gets you a choice of a special numbered and sketched Artist’s Edition of the latest book (the Knight Life: Chivalry Ain’t Dead OR {th}ink: Too Small 2 Fail) or the upcoming book (next up: K Chronicles 6: The Incredible Cuteness of Being ) before everyone else, plus an original sketch page, a 2012 Calendar, and a signed Keef trading card!!
$100 LEVEL-Everything in the $50 level, plus 2 signed prints of your choice!!
$250 LEVEL-Everything in the $100 level, plus a signed piece of (th)ink, Knight Life or K Chronicles original art!!
$500 LEVEL-Everything in the $250 level, plus a 2nd signed original, and your name in the “thanks” section of the next book!!
$1000 LEVEL-Everything in the $500 level, plus an original K Chronicles comic where YOU provide the story, along with a Keef Kommission of your choice!!
$5000 LEVEL-Everything..and I mean EVERYTHING…including every book I have in stock, coming to your town to do a slideshow performance and a cartooning workshop…and a guest appearance in a published comic strip!!
Thanks! And keep on reading!!
Is that really Drinky Crow in the May 29 strip?
@ Kenworth
Yup. Wow, that was quick. D’ya get the Sunday paper on Saturday?
Your strip today 5/29/11 is freakin’ BRILLIANT !!! I’m going to frame it, and put it in a place of prominence. Unfortunately, that attitude extends around the world. Kudos.
i would never support this comic strip. I just disgusted with black men like this narrator. I question why the character who played his wife was not a black woman.
Even my husband was surprised that a black man would make a comic stripe like that, its shameful.
Black men are so racially conscious and sensitive, YET they marry and date out like they don’t notice or see race. Someone cannot claim love is color blind, and turn around and speak and dwell so much on race.
Actually, um, I’ve met Keef before, and he’s this white guy.
He only pretends he’s black, just to piss people like you off.
Have fun voting for Herman Cain!
I am actually a short, heavy-set Korean girl named Soon-Yi.
Soon-Yi Previn!
I think you are terrific! I met you at Comic Con a few weeks ago, and you signed “I lost my arse…” Cool guy and a great strip!
Some one tell me tah um isn’t serious.
Oooops I meant to say “that um isn’t serious.”
you got to get space back in the Denver Post comics. They bagged you last spring probably because of a drop in circulation . It’s time to try gettin’ back in again.
Count me in as a core fan.
+1 for getting back in the Denver Post!