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The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper
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The Boondocks took the syndication world by storm. The notoriety landed Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder in publications ranging from Time magazine to People magazine which named him one of the "25 Most Intriguing People of '99." Centered around the experiences of two young African-American boys, Huey and Riley, who move from inner-city Chicago to the suburbs (or the "boondocks" to them), the strip fuses hip-hop sensibilities with Japanese anime-style drawings and a candid discussion of race. In this first collection of Boondocks cartoons, you'll discover the funny yet revealing combination of superb art and envelope-pushing content in one of the most unique strips ever.
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The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper
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The Boondocks took the syndication world by storm. The notoriety landed Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder in publications ranging from Time magazine to People magazine which named him one of the "25 Most Intriguing People of '99." Centered around the experiences of two young African-American boys, Huey and Riley, who move from inner-city Chicago to the suburbs (or the "boondocks" to them), the strip fuses hip-hop sensibilities with Japanese anime-style drawings and a candid discussion of race. In this first collection of Boondocks cartoons, you'll discover the funny yet revealing combination of superb art and envelope-pushing content in one of the most unique strips ever.
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Political correctness be damned!The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don?t Read The Newspaper (The Boondocks #1) is nothing less than what has come to be expected from one of the most undisputed?or disreputed, depending upon whom you query?names in the uproarious comics genre, even the same being Aaron McGruder.It had been the final year of the 20th century (1999) that the now internationally-renowned cartoonist launched to fame with his now internationally-renowned comic strip, via Universal Press Syndication, which orbits around the lives of two young brothers (in terms of both race and blood relation) named Huey and Riley who suddenly find themselves uprooted from Chicago?s jet-black southside only to be newly planted in the lily-white suburb of Woodcrest?where the two have been brought to live with their granddad, Robert Freeman.The move is undoubtedly a shock to the young systems of Huey and Riley, both of whom, by the way, unaffectionately refer to their contemporary, ?whitewashed? surroundings as the ?Boondocks.?The two pro-black youths don?t necessarily care for their new, lighter-hued neighbors, and proceed to verbally inform those of the Caucasian persuasion of as much?in no uncertain terms.Funny, thought-provoking, powerful, educational, keen on self-awareness, and evidentially racially-charged, The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don?t Read The Newspaper (The Boondocks #1) is the tour de force comic strip collection that started it all for its ingenious author and illustrator, McGruder. And the said strip, I might add, would also go on to inspire its own syndicated show to be featured on Adult Swim, a programming block of Cartoon Network, from 2005 to 2014?garnering (55) masterful episodes.Since the beginning of its publishment in the Chicago Sun-Times, expressly, have I considered myself to be a die-hard fan of McGruder?s first-rate and truth-spewing comic strip series, The Boondocks. And I definitely don?t doubt that any new reader of the illustrated creation?or any new viewer of the show on DVD for that matter?will too progressively become one. For the nontraditional The Boondocks is in itself an acquired taste.Five-star warranted and stratospherically recommended.
Aaron McGruder's strip is Doonesbury and Peanuts smooshed together and made hipper, smarter, and much, much sharper.
The Boondocks still know how to entertain after all these years. In these ultra politically correct times, The Boondocks seems to be the perfect remedy with its brand of non-PC humor. Be warned, if you only know of The Boondocks from Adult Swim, then know that the strip is a bit different. Not really any harsh language or the R-Rated tone that tv series had. Instead it focuses more on current (for its time) topics and delivering insightful commentary on it . . . .while finding ways to make fun of it sometimes. Give it a read.
I fucking love it. Thank you Mr. Aaron Mcgruder. Absolutely recommend to any and all