Keith Knight’s compendium of his strip, The Knight Life: Chivalry Ain’t Dead (224 8.5x11-inch pages, b/w
dailies and Sundays in color; paperback, $17.99) is in hand. It reprints 3
daily strips to a page, leaving lots of white space, which makes Keef’s minimal
artwork seem even more minimal; 4 to a page wouldn’t have crowded up the pages
at all and might have created a better visual impression. But that’s a quibble.
Keef’s irreverent humor is amply evident, on every page, and he’s added
footnotes of relevant comment to many strips. On a Sunday, for instance, the
subject is “ye olde comic book convention,” and Keef appends: “Someone wrote to
say how stupid I was for spelling ‘old’ wrong.” About the gray tone adorning
his wife’s torso: “Kerstin’s shirt became darker after the syndicate thought
she looked nude in a white shirt.” Clarence the street musician “has a
different instrument every time.” And more, much more, throughout the volume.
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