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Keef, an African-American cartoonist, is finally on the verge of mainstream success when an unexpected incident changes everything. He must now navigate the new voices and ideas that confront and challenge him, all without setting aflame everything he's already built.
“The new four-letter word.”
Lamorne Morris
Keef
T. Murph
Clovis
Blake Anderson
Gunther
Sasheer Zamata
Ayana
2022
After a year of rising as a prominent activist, Keef draws a strip that sparks a protest headlined by him. But can he live up to his new platform?
Armed with a new online following, Keef’s public response to a tone deaf ad leads to an interesting corporate proposition. Clovis tries something new.
Keef drops everything to help Clovis deal with a surprise guest. With the Bay Arean on the decline, Ayana struggles to find a new place to live.
When Keef’s new initiative launch doesn’t go according to plan, he enlists Ayana’s help. A shocking revelation leads Gunther to search for answers on how to be an ally.
To avoid getting evicted from the Bay Arean offices, Ayana throws a rent party that leads to a realization about her readership. Keef discovers something equally distressing about his past.
On the heels of the Who’s Your Kin debacle, Keef attempts to clean up the mess by hiring a publicist and embarking on an audacious plan.
Ayana takes the trip of a lifetime. An eye-opening revelation rocks Keef’s world.
The gang kills Keef Knight.
2020
When up-and-coming cartoonist Keef Knight has a traumatic run-in with the police, he begins to see the world in an entirely new way.
Keef grapples with the fallout from the previous day’s events while trying to put his life back in order.
Being “woke” doesn’t pay the bills. It also doesn’t save you from awkward small talk at parties thrown by rich white ladies.
Keef channels his creative energy in a provocative new way.
Keef and his friends head to an Oakland artists’ salon where he hopes to get in the good graces of the East Bay’s artistic elite.
After the events at the salon, Keef and Adrienne discuss how to move forward, Clovis helps Ayana get revenge on her ex-girlfriend, and Gunther tests the bounds of his sexual fluidity.
What should be a quick trip across town instead turns into the bus ride from Hell.
Months later, Keef thinks he's finally arrived in a better place until he's confronted with an unexpected face from the past.
