Knight is also the recipient of the the NAACP History Maker award. He’s also one of the most highly regarded cartoonists in America, and the creator of three popular comic strips: the Knight Life, (th)ink, and the K Chronicles. Keith Knight is a rapper, social activist, father, and educator. "It's hard to make a comic that is this funny while also so frequently profound.This is the work of a master." - Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius "Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe." -Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury Mansbach’s work has also appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered. His novel Rage Is Back was an NPR Best Book of the Year. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go the F*ck to Sleep and You Have to F*cking Eat, Mansbach has recently expanded his writing repertoire to include his debut thriller The Dead Run and middle-grade novel Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in My. Robinson continues to act, perform, and cheer on the White Sox.Īdam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, cultural critic, and humorist. Robinson pulls on his life’s most hilarious moments and his experience attending Chicago’s first public magnet school to bring Jake the Fake to life. He is best known for his work on NBC’s The Office, Hollywood comedy blockbusters This Is the End, Hot Tub Time Machine, and Pineapple Express, and the upcoming drama Morris from America. (Mar.Comedian, musician, and actor Craig Robinson transitions his flair for humor from the screen to the page in his authorial debut. Knight’s zippy b&w spot illustrations play up the story’s gross-out humor-as in a scene of laser-beam-wielding dolphins decapitating radioactive kangaroos during Jake’s book report about an imaginary book-and a supporting cast of quirky art-school types rounds out this offbeat novel, first in a planned series. Allen, Jake pushes the definition of artistic in order to “throw everybody off the scent of my fakeness,” finding freedom (and a cover) in intentionally bizarre behavior such as trash sculpting or creating bands that don’t play music.
Under the very loose tutelage of free-spirited Mr.
Jake’s gifted older sister, Lisa, thrives at the academy, where students are encouraged to get creative through assignments like chewing a piece of gum for six hours, then writing a play about it. Jake, an African-American sixth grader, has a severe case of imposter syndrome after cheating and faking his way into the elite Music and Art Academy. Actor/comedian Robinson, Go the F**k to Sleep author Mansbach, and The Knight Life cartoonist Knight team up for a slightly edgy spoof of touchy-feely,
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