词条 | The Boondocks (comic strip) |
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| title = The Boondocks | bgcolour = #DDBBBB | image = | caption = Boondocks cast. Clockwise from top: Huey Freeman, Michael Caesar, Hiro Otomo, Riley Freeman, Cindy McPhearson and Jazmine DuBois | author = Aaron McGruder | illustrator = Aaron McGruder (1996–2003) Jennifer Seng (2003–2004) Carl Jones (2004–2006) | rss = | atom = | status = Concluded daily strip | first = February 8, 1996 | last = March 26, 2006 | syndicate = Universal Press Syndicate (1999–2006) | publisher = Three Rivers Press Andrews McMeel Publishing | genre = Satire | rating = | preceded by = | followed by = }}The Boondocks was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006. Created by McGruder in 1996 for Hitlist.com, an early online music website,[1] it was printed in the monthly hip hop magazine The Source in 1997. As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999. A popular and controversial strip, The Boondocks satirizes African American culture and American politics as seen through the eyes of young, black radical Huey Freeman. McGruder's syndicate said it was among the biggest launches the company ever had.[2] McGruder sold the television and film rights for the strip to Sony Pictures Entertainment. The Boondocks animated TV series premiered on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block on November 6, 2005. McGruder launched an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign for a live action movie featuring The Boondocks character Uncle Ruckus in 2013.[3] On February 6, 2019, McGruder revived the comic strip on Instagram, which were made with the help of former supervising director of The Boondocks TV series, Seung Eun Kim.[4] Publication historyThe strip debuted on Hitlist.com[5] on February 8, 1996. It later appeared in the University of Maryland newspaper The Diamondback[5] under editor-in-chief Jayson Blair[6] on December 3, 1996, paying McGruder $30 per strip—$17 more than other cartoonists. McGruder ended the strip's run in The Diamondback on March 18, 1997, two weeks after the strip was omitted due to a technical error and a Diamondback staffer printed the word "OOPS" in its place without an explanation. He pulled the strip after the paper refused to run an apology.[7] (Upon the revelation in 2004 of news article fabrications by Blair, by then a reporter for The New York Times, McGruder's comic strip joined others in lampooning Blair.) The strip was rejected by six syndicates — including the Washington Post Writers Group, Creators Syndicate, United Media, and Chronicle Features — before finally being picked up. Many of the syndicates that rejected the strip were supportive but felt that The Boondocks was "too edgy." An article from the summer of 1997 asserted that Universal Press Syndicate (UPS) was taking a "hard look" at the strip; UPS eventually picked it for syndication in April 1999.[8] In Fall 2003, Boston, Massachusetts-based artist Jennifer Seng assumed art duties from McGruder. In an interview with The New Yorker, McGruder said, "If something had to give, it was going to be the art. I think I'm a better writer than artist."[6] Carl Jones succeeded Seng as illustrator in late 2004. In the introduction to the collection Public Enemy #2, McGruder wrote, "I had hired an artist to help me on some of the art duties. People think I stopped drawing the strip, but that's never been the case. To this day there has never been a single Boondocks strip that I did not personally touch—I still obsess over the details of Huey, Riley, Caesar and Granddad. I still go over every panel. I still care what it looks like, and I always will."[9] On February 28, 2006, McGruder announced that his strip would go on a six-month hiatus, starting March 27, 2006, with new installments resuming in October. Repeats of earlier strips were offered by Universal Press Syndicate in the interim.[10] The Boondocks was syndicated to over 300 clients at its peak, but more than half substituted different features rather than publish reruns during the hiatus.[11][12] On September 25, 2006, Universal Press Syndicate president Lee Salem announced that the comic would not return, saying, "Although Aaron McGruder has made no statement about retiring or resuming The Boondocks for print newspapers ... newspapers should not count on it coming back in the foreseeable future." He added that Universal would welcome McGruder back if he chose to return.[13] Greg Melvin, McGruder's editor at the syndicate, met with him in an unsuccessful attempt to talk the cartoonist into returning. McGruder cited his work on the Cartoon Network show among other projects as reasons for not then returning to the strip.[14] After the strip was canceled, reruns continued to be carried by some newspapers through November 26, 2006.[15] Reruns of the strip are available online at GoComics.[16] DescriptionThe strip depicts Huey Freeman and his younger brother Riley, two young children who have been moved out of the West Side of Chicago with their grandfather Robert to live with him in the predominantly white fictional suburb of Woodcrest (in Maryland, as seen from the area code stated in the March 16, 2000 strip). This relates to McGruder's childhood move from Chicago to Columbia, a diverse Maryland suburb. The title word "boondocks" alludes to the isolation from primarily African-American urban life that the characters feel, and permits McGruder some philosophical distance. Huey is a politically perceptive devotee of black radical ideas of the past few decades (as explained in the May 4, 1999, strip, Huey is in fact named after Black Panther Huey P. Newton[17]) and is harshly critical of many aspects of modern black culture. For example, he is at least as hard on Vivica Fox and Cuba Gooding, Jr. at times as he is on the Bush administration. Riley, on the other hand, is enamored of gangsta rap culture and the "thug"/bling-bling lifestyle. Their grandfather Robert is a firm disciplinarian, World War II veteran, and former civil rights activist who is offended by both their values and ideas. Huey's best friend is Michael Caesar, a dreadlocked aspiring MC who agrees with many of Huey's criticisms but serves as a positive counterpoint to Huey's typically pessimistic attitude by taking a humorous approach to issues. He is also a budding comedian, although most of his humor consists of trying to play "yo momma" jokes on Huey, which always falls flat. The Freemans' neighbors are NAACP member and assistant DA Thomas DuBois (a reference both to Uncle Tom and W. E. B. Du Bois) and his white wife Sarah, also a lawyer. Their young daughter Jazmine is very insecure about her ethnic identity and is often the subject of Huey's antipathy for being out of touch with her African ancestry. The Boondocks was very political and occasionally subject to great controversy, usually sparked by the comments and behavior of its main character, Huey. The comic strip has been withheld by newspapers several times. In this respect, it is similar to Doonesbury. In particular, the principal characters often discussed racial and American socio-economic class issues. Because of its controversy and serious subject matter, many newspaper publishers either moved the strip to the op-ed section of the paper, pulled more potentially controversial strips from being published, didn't publish the strip at all, or canceled it altogether. Similar reactions have been faced by other strips, such as Doonesbury. Main characters
Minor characters
ControversiesThe content of McGruder's comic strip often came under fire for being politically left-wing and occasionally risque, leading to its being published in the op-ed section of many newspapers. For example, a strip making fun of BET's rap videos, some of which rely on the sexually suggestive gyrations of female dancers, and a strip mocking Whitney Houston's drug problems and emphasizing her buttocks, were pulled out of circulation. The Boondocks garnered significant attention after the September 11, 2001, attacks with a series of strips in which Huey calls a government tipline to report Ronald Reagan for funding terrorism. Soon after, he "censored" several strips by featuring a talking patriotic yellow ribbon and a flag (named Ribbon and Flagee, respectively) instead of the usual cast. Several strips have been briefly pulled from prominent publications. For example, the "Condi Needs a Man" strip, in which Huey and his friend Caesar create a personal ad for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, portraying her as a "female Darth Vader type that seeks loving mate to torture", resulted in The Washington Post withholding a week's worth of strips, the longest such suspension ever by the paper. However, the paper's ombudsman, Michael Getler, later sided with McGruder.[18] The Post also declined to run "Can a Nigga Get a Job?", which had black contestants compete on a reality TV show to work for Russell Simmons, only to find that all the contestants were rude and lazy. McGruder has often attacked black conservative commentator Larry Elder in the comic strip as well as the television series. In response, Elder published an opinion piece in which he created the "McGruder", an award for statements made by black public figures that Elder considers "dumb", "vulgar", and/or "offensive".[19] Collected editionsThe comic strips have been collected into trade paperbacks:
See also{{Portal bar|Comics|African American|1990s|2000s}}References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://chicagomaroon.com/2002/11/05/boondocks-creator-talks-about-comic-strip/ |title=Boondocks creator talks about comic strip |newspaper=The Chicago Maroon |date=November 5, 2002 |author=Raphael Satter |accessdate=April 23, 2015}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://cartoonician.com/universal-soldier-the-lee-salem-interview/ |title=Universal Soldier: The Lee Salem Interview |newspaper=Hogan's Alley |date=November 8, 2013 |author=Tom Heintjes |accessdate=April 23, 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy9JFXA8Mmo|title=UncleRuckusMovie.mov|first=|last=Meghann Collins|date=January 30, 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}} 4. ^{{cite web |last1=Rao |first1=Sameer |title=ICYMI: Aaron McGruder Resurrects 'The Boondocks' Just in Time |url=https://www.colorlines.com/articles/icymi-aaron-mcgruder-resurrects-boondocks-just-time |website=ColorLines |accessdate=10 March 2019}} 5. ^1 {{cite web| url= http://content.uclick.com/pdfs/theboondocks_factsheet.pdf| title= The Boondocks| website= UClick.com| publisher= Andrews McMeel Universal | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120704100132/http://content.uclick.com/pdfs/theboondocks_factsheet.pdf| archivedate= July 4, 2012| deadurl= yes| access-date= October 17, 2016}} 6. ^1 {{cite news|first=Ben|last=McGrath|title=The Radical|date=April 12, 2004|publisher=The New Yorker|url=http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040419fa_fact2|accessdate=February 2, 2006}} 7. ^Litten, Kevin, "A little Huey himself" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110212326/http://www.diamondbackonline.com/article_c145a938-cbd2-5c1d-ac02-f90e15adc4e1.html |date=November 10, 2012 }}. The Diamondback, November 7, 2005. Retrieved December 3, 2006. 8. ^Parker, Lonnae O'Neal. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/08/20/strip-tease/e5e66f6c-cd01-4116-8e5f-1c3fb8069e7f/?utm_term=.99e28508d54b "STRIP TEASE,"] Washington Post (August 20, 1997). 9. ^McGrduer, Aaron. Introduction, Public Enemy #2: An All-New Boondocks Collection (Three Rivers Press, 2005). {{ISBN|978-1400082582}} 10. ^{{cite news|first=Robert|last=Hanashiro|title=Comic strip 'The Boondocks' taking six-month hiatus|date=February 28, 2006|work=USA Today|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-02-28-boondocks-break_x.htm}} 11. ^{{cite news|title=Colleagues praise 'Boondocks', aren't surprised it may have ended|date=September 27, 2006|first=Dave|last=Astor|work=The Hollywood Reporter|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003157317|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114201307/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003157317|archivedate=January 14, 2009}} 12. ^{{cite news|title=McGruder Stopped Doing 'Boondocks' Because He 'Was Sick of It{{'-}}|date=November 21, 2006|url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003410757|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061129175817/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003410757|archivedate=November 29, 2006|df=mdy-all}} 13. ^{{cite news|first=Laura Sessions |last=Stepp|title=Syndicate Says Boondocks May Not Return|date=September 26, 2006|work=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092501391.html}} 14. ^{{cite news|title=Return of 'Boondocks' comic strip delayed|date=September 25, 2006|publisher=CNN|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/09/25/boondocks.comics.ap/index.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927002024/http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/09/25/boondocks.comics.ap/index.html|archivedate=September 27, 2006}} 15. ^{{cite news|title=The Boondocks Comic Strip Ends This November|date=September 26, 2006|url=http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/9845|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061023205425/http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/9845|archivedate=October 23, 2006|df=mdy-all}} 16. ^{{cite web|accessdate=February 2, 2012|url=http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/|title=The Boondocks|publisher=GoComics}} 17. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/1999/05/04 |title=The Boondocks – May 04, 1999 strip|last1=McGruder |first1=Aron |date=May 4, 1999 |work= |publisher= |accessdate=April 19, 2013}} 18. ^{{cite news |title=Putting 'The Boondocks' in the Dock |first=Michael |last=Getler |date=October 19, 2003 |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A43907-2003Oct17}} 19. ^Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era, Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey Jones, Ethan Thompson. New York University Press, April 2009. p. 271. External links{{wikiquote}}
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