More important, my older sister, Lisa, who is a senior at M&AA, told me ahead of time about all the sneaky, tricky stuff the judges were going to do, like make me switch keys in the middle, make me sing along with the song, that kind of thing. I’ve played that song seventeen gazillion times, give or take, so I play it really well.
My audition was playing “Song for My Father” on the piano. I’m basically the clown kid, because I faked my way in.
Though probably there are no clown kids.Įxcept me. On your instrument if you’re a music kid, and in your ballet shoes or your clown suit or with your paintings if you’re a dance kid or a clown kid or an art kid or whatever. It’s a school for gifted kids: you have to take a test to get in AND do an audition. Tomorrow is my first day of sixth grade, at Music and Art Academy. Well, my plan of hoping that summer would never end and school would never start has failed. Weekly, MAD Magazine, and The Funny Times. His art has appeared in various publications worldwide, including the Washington Post, Daily KOS, San Francisco Chronicle,, Ebony, ESPN the Magazine, L.A. 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. This is the work of a master." -Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
"It's hard to make a comic that is this funny while also so frequently profound. "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 from 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. Comedian, musician, and actor Craig Robinson transitions his flair for humor from the screen to the page in his authorial debut.
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