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3.01.2006

Boondocks kaput, finally

Well, I'm happy to report that Aaron MacGruder has given up the pretense of calling himself a syndicated cartoonist for (sigh of relief) the time being. You'll remember that I've previously railed on about his comic strip being included in the funny pages when he hasn't drawn it since not long after he began, he literally phoned in (to another artist who drew and designed the strip) all the ideas and often reran the same pic with different text, and because in general, he rehashed the same ideas over and over again.

Here's the clip in the Washington Post (AP).

Deb at 10:33 AM  |  link to this   

3 Comments

Ghostwriting issues aside (hell i didn't even know until you started railing ...) it was still easily the funniest laugh out loud strip in the paper. i really have no reason to read the funny pages anymore.

i'm sorry it's over :(

KH

Blogger alternative3 at 3/01/2006 1:46 PM   

Though I do admit Boondocks is one of the five comics I've chosen for my comics page, finally had the opportunity to see the Boondocks animated series a couple weeks back. So very disappointing on every level. A bad sign, if that's what he was putting his energy into . . .

Blogger Bram at 3/01/2006 11:14 PM   

Yeah, I've TRIED to be open-minded and I watched the animated series...it's...ouch. It looked horribly produced and led me to begin complaining about the quality of these chopshop new shows that keep going to air on Adult Swim. For every excellent new show, there's something that looks like Animation 101 for beginners....

Blogger Deb at 3/02/2006 10:45 AM   

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