“Boondocks” Cancelled - McGruder Kills His Strip
Author: Stephen Gerding
September 26th, 2006
Seems that with the success off his animated series, Aaron McGruder’s decided to pull the plug on his six year old syndicated comic strip citing the need to refresh his creative juices.
It’s over for “The Boondocks” comic strip, at least for now. After six years — a remarkably short run for a strip that found its way into 300-plus newspapers, including The Washington Post — Universal Press Syndicate told subscribers yesterday they should start looking for someone to replace political/social satirist Aaron McGruder.
McGruder, a Columbia native who in his twenties became the Garry Trudeau of the hip-hop generation, took a sabbatical six months ago to recharge. The syndicate kept checking with him, reminding him that its newspaper clients needed several weeks in order to prepare for his return or his departure.
More from the Washington Post’s article here.
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13 Responses to ““Boondocks” Cancelled - McGruder Kills His Strip”
September 26th, 2006 at 11:46 am
The title of this entry makes it look like the TV show was cancelled so MacGruder pulled the strip.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
This isn’t a suprise- when you compare what little the censors allowed him to do in the newspapers to the freedom he had on TV, why wouldn’t he leave?If you want to know why newspaper strips are dying, that says it all…
September 26th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
boondocks was one of the few strips I actaully would want to read when i picked up a paper.
Get Fuzzy being the other one.
It will be missed
September 26th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
I actually prefered the comic strip to the animated tv show…
September 26th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
ABC’s “World News” webcast did a story on the “Boondocks” today:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2493638
Check it out.
September 26th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Natalie, do you work at ABC?
January 14th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
I got bad news for you folks. If you were amused by Boondocks than there is a good chance you are a moron. Perhaps one of the STUPIDIST, most trite attempts at humor since the return of Marmaduke. I find it hard nausiating to watch and terribly un-funny. Without the race topic, McGruders got nothing up his sleeve. Sorry.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Wow, nicely done with the thread necromancy. Will you be telling us how overrated the Dreamcast is next?
January 15th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Good call on Marmaduke, though. Ha ha ha.
February 11th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Is the show cancelled or what?
June 7th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
I don’t think that the show is cancelled because if you look at the Boondocks episode list on tv.com right now it says returning series.
July 29th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
A marginally skilled artist with shitty political views. Not only should his cartoon have never have gone on the air, but his comics should never have been published.. there are MANY more “middle of the road” cartoons with a fair political adjenda… buuut, in the age of whining democrats, pussy liberals, shotgun toating republicans, and everyone blaming eachother for everything and not doing anything about it.. what do you expect.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I Love KFR!