{"id":13856,"date":"2020-09-09T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13856"},"modified":"2020-09-09T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:42:20","slug":"episode-396-keith-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-396-keith-knight","title":{"rendered":"Episode 396 &#8211; Keith Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_396_-_Keith_Knight.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual Memories Show 396: Keith Knight<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3667\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13856-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_396_-_Keith_Knight.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_396_-_Keith_Knight.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_396_-_Keith_Knight.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_396_-_Keith_Knight.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=13856-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_396_-_Keith_Knight.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_396_-_Keith_Knight.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There have been plenty of woke moments throughout my life, but the police incident in San Francisco made me double and triple down the work I did about it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a 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data-image-title=\"MV5BNDIzOTJjM2QtNjkwNS00NGFhLWJhYjgtZjAxZGZmYjFlZTg4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNTM2Mzc@._V1_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MV5BNDIzOTJjM2QtNjkwNS00NGFhLWJhYjgtZjAxZGZmYjFlZTg4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNTM2Mzc%40._V1_.jpg?fit=442%2C620\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13859\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MV5BNDIzOTJjM2QtNjkwNS00NGFhLWJhYjgtZjAxZGZmYjFlZTg4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNTM2Mzc%40._V1_.jpg?resize=314%2C440\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MV5BNDIzOTJjM2QtNjkwNS00NGFhLWJhYjgtZjAxZGZmYjFlZTg4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNTM2Mzc%40._V1_.jpg?resize=314%2C440 314w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MV5BNDIzOTJjM2QtNjkwNS00NGFhLWJhYjgtZjAxZGZmYjFlZTg4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNTM2Mzc%40._V1_.jpg?resize=442%2C620 442w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MV5BNDIzOTJjM2QtNjkwNS00NGFhLWJhYjgtZjAxZGZmYjFlZTg4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNTM2Mzc%40._V1_.jpg?resize=768%2C1078 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MV5BNDIzOTJjM2QtNjkwNS00NGFhLWJhYjgtZjAxZGZmYjFlZTg4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNTM2Mzc%40._V1_.jpg?w=1069 1069w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a>To celebrate the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/series\/woke-034909c6-8c46-4cad-8d0d-062574a9e5f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WOKE<\/a>, his fantastic new comedy series on Hulu, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kchronicles.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keith Knight<\/a> rejoins the show! A lot has gone on since our <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-149-keith-knight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 conversation<\/a>, so we get into how the country has changed, how his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kchronicles.com\/lectures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slideshows about police brutality and racial illiteracy<\/a> are more in demand than ever (pandemic notwithstanding), and the reasons behind the surge in approval for BLM. We talk about how <em>WOKE<\/em> came together, the choice of Lamorne Morris to play Keef, why he wanted to be involved in producing <em>WOKE<\/em>, rather than selling the idea &amp; walking off, what it was like to work in a collaborative environment after years as a solo artist, how different TV writing is than comics, the fun in casting the voices of the objects that come to life in the show, and how closely the lead character&#8217;s woke experience parallels his own. We also discuss his drive to keep making comics, the good fortune of finishing shooting the series right before the pandemic shut everything down, and why he sure wishes he &amp; his family could have gotten out of NC for a few weeks this summer for their annual Schwarzwald trip to see the in-laws. <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_396_-_Keith_Knight.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Give it a listen!<\/a> And go watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/series\/woke-034909c6-8c46-4cad-8d0d-062574a9e5f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WOKE<\/a> on Hulu!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We figured out a fine line of talking about serious issues but using humor and magical realism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gz9jqepUznY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;TV is a big learning curve, but it&#8217;s not rocket science. I had to remind myself when I got too stressed, &#8216;We&#8217;re just making television.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/5T6L35N3v5uAdTmBzFVO5Z\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As horrible this pandemic is, it&#8217;s revealed how untenable capitalism-over-everything society is. If you don&#8217;t ensure that everybody is doing okay, then that&#8217;s when you have problems.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/embed\/player\/t157158297\/\" style=\"width:100%; height:100px;\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_396_-_Keith_Knight.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>&nbsp;Then check out&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the archives<\/a>&nbsp;for more great episodes!<\/p>\n<p>Lots of ways to follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em>! <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vmspod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXoLbP-9GbhHJZpCQP5TR5A\/videos?view_as=subscriber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kchronicles.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13858\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-396-keith-knight\/fup-400-2014-keith-knight-eroeffnung-comic-sammlung-jfki\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI.jpg?fit=525%2C394\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13858\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI.jpg?resize=620%2C465 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI.jpg?resize=440%2C330 440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/fup-400-2014-Keith-Knight-Eroeffnung-Comic-Sammlung-JFKI.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kchronicles.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keith Knight<\/a> is an award-winning cartoonist whose \u201cKnight Life Chronicles,\u201d and \u201c(th)ink\u201d strips ran for more than a decade in such newspapers as <em>the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> and <em>the Boston Herald<\/em>. His funny yet hard-hitting cartoons fuel a comic strip slideshow he tours on America\u2019s racial illiteracy called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kchronicles.com\/lectures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Red, White, Black and Blue<\/a>. Combining cartoons, storytelling, historical facts, and humor, the slideshow scored him a Belle Foundation grant and a NAACP History Maker award. Knight is also the illustrator of the critically acclaimed tween book, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9780553523546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake the Fake Keeps It Real<\/a>. He will beat you at pinball.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Keith on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeefKnight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iamkeithknight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, and show him some support on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/keefknight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Fella<em>&nbsp;by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/may4th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hal Mayforth<\/a>, used with permission from&nbsp;the artist. The conversation was recorded remotely via <a href=\"https:\/\/zencastr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zencastr<\/a>. I used a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000SOYOTQ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000SOYOTQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=04f89e1b44161aff17be7ee9479f6d64\">Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000SOYOTQ\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> feeding into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004MQSV04\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004MQSV04&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=1a177654d0c55797588bc43949ef369e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cloudlifter CL-1<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004MQSV04\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003VZG550\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B003VZG550&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=M2DKYCZ52E6ZFUA3\">Mackie Onyx Blackjack 2&#215;2 USB Recording Interface<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B003VZG550\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">. All processing and editing done in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DRPVEUK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00DRPVEUK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=902a694e24a241f7cee18f483a6ce2dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe Audition CC<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00DRPVEUK\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">. Photo of Keith by someone else. It&#8217;s on my <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show 396: Keith Knight &#8220;There have been plenty of woke moments throughout my life, but the police incident in San Francisco made me double and triple down the work I did about it.&#8221; To celebrate the launch of WOKE, his fantastic new comedy series on Hulu, Keith Knight rejoins the show! A lot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-396-keith-knight\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 396 &#8211; Keith Knight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,26,5981,4,40,1183,17,32,3,19],"tags":[6180,6177,6174,1173,6179,1707,6173,3993,6175,4001,6176,4252,6178],"class_list":["post-13856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-business","category-comics","category-covid-check-in","category-literature","category-music","category-podcasts","category-politics-explicit","category-sports","category-suburbs","category-urban-issues","tag-blake-anderson","tag-dee-brown","tag-eric-christian-olson","tag-evan-dorkin","tag-george-floyd","tag-james-baldwin","tag-john-will","tag-keith-knight","tag-marshall-todd","tag-maya-angelou","tag-mo-marable","tag-ralph-ellison","tag-richard-wright","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/keithknight2020comp.jpg?fit=1359%2C800","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3Bu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16313,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-555-keith-knight","url_meta":{"origin":13856,"position":0},"title":"Episode 555 &#8211; Keith Knight","author":"Gil","date":"September 19, 2023","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 555: Keith Knight \"All the stories start in truth, but I wanted to make sure they ended in good ways.\" How did the writers' strike get Keith Knight to finish his long-awaited graphic memoir, I WAS A TEENAGE MICHAEL JACKSON IMPERSONATOR (Keith Knight Press)? 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