What should be in your local paper

One of my favorite cartoonists is Keith Knight. For years he's drawn and written the weekly K Chronicles, a semi-autobiographical weekly comic that I never miss a chance to read at Salon.com.

Today is the first day of his new daily strip, The Knight Life.

The Knight Life has started to run in a handful of newspapers around the country, but probably not yet yours. Check it out over the next few days at http://comics.com/comics/knightlife/ and request it be run in your local paper if you think it is better than Mallard Fillmore, Apartment 3-G, F Minus, or whatever other crud that inexplicably is printed on the comics page.

Here's the first strip, run on May 5. Click on image to see full sized strip.