“Boondocks” cartoonist Aaron McGruder is just as politically extreme as Ted Rall, but unlike Rall he’s actually talented, and has a sense of humor. This New Yorker profile of McGruder tells us three things we didn’t know:
- He doesn’t actually draw the strip anymore, and has in fact “outsourced” it to an illustrator in Boston, though he still writes the dialogue.
- He voted for Nader in 2000, and mentioning this caused an entire room of lefty luminaries (including Jack Newfield and Eric Alterman) to walk out on one of his speeches, and
- When McGruder was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, “The Boondocks” was published for the first time in that school’s student newspaper, the Diamondback. You may have heard of the editor-in-chief at the time- Jayson Blair.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 13, 2004 10:14 PMI agree...though I don't agree with Mcgruder's politics, he has managed to turn a lot of things into humor within his strip.
I especially like when Al Sharpton and or Jesse Jackson are brought up. That's priceless.
Posted by: jaws at April 14, 2004 03:25 AM