Book A Slideshow With Keith Knight
Slideshow events now performed virtually or in person!
Cartooning Can Save the World (in fact, it already has) is the latest comic-strip slideshow from award-winning cartoonist Keith Knight (K Chronicles, Knight Life, (th)ink). The hour-long presentation humorously explores the way comics have historically been used in social justice movements, cultural storytelling, and speaking truth to power for centuries. Using his own work and the work of others, Keith makes the case that cartooning can be a bridge to education, compassion, rebellion, and even, liberation!
Keith Knight’s work and presentations have earned him an NAACP history maker award, a CXC Master Cartoonist Award, several Glyph awards, a Comic-Con Inkpot, and a Dr. Martin Luther King Leadership Award from his alma mater, Salem State University.
Keith Knight’s presentations are infused with urgency, humor, satire, politics, and race. His work is designed to provoke constructive, civil dialogue amongst people young and old, left and right, of all colors and orientations.
Here’s what happens
You fly Keef in, and he wows your campus/town/school/library/church or community center with a powerpoint/storytelling presentation showcasing some of his most powerfully moving, darkest, and funniest cartoons. Addressing issues of race, media, the justice system, and the importance of social activism— teetering between high brow ideals and low-brow humor. Followed by a Q&A and book/print signing.
Book A Slideshow With Keith
Words of Praise
“Keith Knight’s slide show presentations are a poignant and stirring mixture of lecture, activist essay and stand-up comedy. Our students especially appreciated Keith’s entertaining and charismatic delivery that still never lost sight of the seriousness of his material. This show is a must-see for anyone trying to better understand race-relations, police brutality and the cultural climate for African Americans in the United States.”
“Keith Knight’s presentation was lively, thought-provoking and hilariously funny. The diverse audience of students, faculty and staff, and community members loved it. Keith challenged them with his unique perspective on critical issues like racism, terrorism, the media and U.S. politics while managing to keep the laughs coming. One enthusiastic attendee told me that the event exceeded all of her expectations. We were delighted with the success of the event.”
“The presentation was searing, moving, poignant, and somehow very funny! The students were quite moved, and the presentation really helped to historicize and to contextualize for them what happened in Ferguson and New York this year..”
“In times of dying newspapers and dwindling opportunities for artists to be published, Keith Knight’s slide show tour is a refreshing approach to reaching new audiences. His sharp analyses of current political events, American culture and the ups and downs of everyday life are presented with the seriousness and simultaneously with the ridicule they deserve. Hilarious and depressing, fast-paced and thoughtful, entertaining and enlightening; Keith Knight’s presentation will stick with me for quite some time.”