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Thanks for the links, impatiens.  I hadn't read that article about McGruder, it was very insightful.  Sounds like the end is near for the strip.  I had no idea he wasn't even drawing it anymore, that came as a shocker to read.  Although it does explain a lot - the strip does have a flatter, more sparse feel now then it did several years ago. That's why I really recommend that people check out "A Right to be Hostile" - it's the best of the best, when Boondocks was at its peak, both comically and visually.  Especially the entire last third of the book, post 9/11.   

Anyway, thanks again for posting those links....

for a free, daily dose of boondocks:

http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2005/07/15/

Well everybody, here's a sampling of some of my favorite "Boondocks" comics from "A Right to be Hostile."   Enjoy! 

They're coming out with an animated "Boondocks" cartoon series, which will air late at night during Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" program block.

The commercial for it is interesting - shows a bunch of rich, white, high society types all fancy dressed drinking wine and caviar, right, and the little kid from the comic comes up on a stage, lowers the mic to his level, and says "excuse me, I have a brief announcement.  Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lying about 9/11."  And of course total shock throughout the party.

So I'm intrigued.  We don't get the comic here but I've certainly heard about it.  THe one you posted, lyra, that has him call the FBI tips line to report Reagan supporting bin Laden was the one I think that a whole bunch of papers banned after 9/11.  Seemed like a great strip to me!   Don't know how the show will go, though, after all Cartoon Network is owned by Time Warner, so I suspect it'll be sort of a counter-control valve.  Like people know something's wrong, so they let themselves get led to Michael Moore or something like that.  More false paradigm kinda stuff, I dunno.

EDIT:  Forgot to mention it starts Sunday, NOvember 6 if anyone's interested.

I just added another eye opening bird flu comic to my previous post;  this one appeared today. 

Basically, if you read the interview that was posted earlier in this thread, Aaron McGruder doesn't give a crap anymore.  He doesn't want to be doing the daily strips anymore.   So the impression I'm getting is he's just going all out with it now.  He's laying it all out there, saying whatever he wants to say, no holds barred anymore.  It was eye opening and cool and unusual (to me) when he was ranting about our government and all that, because you NEVER find that in ANY mainstream comic strip, not to the level that you see in the Boondocks................but now he's flat out stating that the WTC was blown up from within, the government's got big plans for the population with the Bird Flu, etc. and so on.   He wants a way out I think, based on what he said in that interview.   And we're seeing it.   And all I can say is "YOU GO DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!"  I mean, it's awesome.  Good for him talking about the WTC being blown up.  Who else is saying that anyway in the mainstream??  And in a comic, no less?   NOBODY.   There was a strip from a few months ago that wasn't political, but it was eye opening none the less, and full of truth.  He was ripping on McDonalds getting all "hip hop" and targeting the ghetto 'hood rat demographic.   It showed Huey walking along the street and there's a billboard above him with this cross-eyed, crazed looking black gangsta rapper holding a Big Mac in one hand and a gun in the other, saying, "McDonalds N****, WHAT!!"

I mean, the attitude is, "If I'm going down, then I'm taking it down with me."   If he's going to go out, then he's going out with a bang, no holds barred, saying everything he wants to say.

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