Controversial cartoonist calls Bush a moron... (Barf alert)

Salon ^ | Dec. 7, 2001 | Stephen Lemons

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

I did and I still can't figure out why they call them "the funnies".

[Post Toasties]

I'd probably start out by reminding anyone who said that in my presence that the Demorats sure looked like the crooked scum they are when they tried and failed to steal this election, and take it from there......

[lazypadawan]

The Washington Compost has been running this nauseating, tiresome mean-spirited comic for three years. This guy has gotten worse and worse and now he's at the point where he's insulting everyone. I can't even read it anymore. I think he truly wants people to hate him. He wants to be the Angry Young Black Guy, an Al Sharpton with a pen. What gets me is that this character says things in his strip that would get anyone else into big trouble. Even Garry Trudeau. Then all the libbies get on Johnny Hart's case for daring to put his Christian views in his strips.

[No Truce With Kings]

I liked the strip before 9-11 for precisely the reason so many conservatives hated it. Huey and his brother are paranoid, bigots -- black Archie Bunkers without Bunker's redeeming humanity. The only sympathetic characters are the old white teacher that Huey torments and his bemused Rastafarian buddy who cannot figure out why Huey is always so angry. The comic was the perfect send-up of the ridiculous racism of the radical black movement -- albeit an unconcious one.

Since 9-11 Magruder has gone so-o-o-o far out that I am uncomfortable reading the strip -- even when it is occasionally funny. (It can be funny -- the bit about bill not getting paid because grandad was afraid of anthrax was a scream.) But Magruders biases have made the characters characatures of black attitudes. So much so, that it has become the 21st century's answer to Stepin Fetchit, blackface, and Little Black Sambo. It is like reading a racist piece on blacks written in the 1920s.

I wonder if Magruder realizes how much he validates the stereotypes perpetuated by white racists with his work. Again, with the exception of the Rastifarian kid, all of the blacks could come out of a comic book written and published by the Knights of the White Magnolia-type white supremacist group.

[ILuvRonnieRaygun]

To me it has everything to do with race! I truly want us to be brothers but 90% of Black Americans don't! I think that our real issue is the coming civil war. I thought that after 9-11 we could actually come together as the "Melting Pot" that we all hoped we would become. All I see now is that after this war is over, we'll revert back to the MTV mentality. The poor oppressed people of color and the evil white majority! I hope, I truly hope I am wrong, but I shall be locked and loaded and READY for you jesse, Al , and emfuma, or er Mfumeme, or emf**k me, or whatever you wanna call you're dumbass self!

[garyhope]

He's a hater, a racist and a traitor.

[Post Toasties]

Hart's great. I really got a laugh out of a BC comic strip recently which had one character saying to the other: "You know what really makes the EPA crazy? When one endangered species eats another one."

[rwfromkansas]

Thank God I am not aware of any paper nearby that carries this filth

[Bogey78O]

He's still more talented than Kevin Cunningham Look here

[Post Toasties]

Hey, is your last name McGruder, by any chance?

[andrew]

Or what about Ted 'If I wasn't so irrelevant I'd be dangerous' Rall?

[ILuvRonnieRaygun]

lol, thats a good one, no Corbitt is my name, proud white male!

[Britton J Wingfield]

Huey and his brother are paranoid, bigots -- black Archie Bunkers without Bunker's redeeming humanity.

I'm pretty happy with bigots like this being flagrant, rather than being coy about it and hiding their hatred. I only wish Sharpton and Jackson would speak their mind like this, so the wool would be yanked off of so many eyes.

I like the way he draws. Too bad he's a scumbag. I never saw the strip before today.

[Bogey78O]

Try this one. It's basically a Canadian that snapped one day and started trashing everything that's PC. For maturer audiences. Space Moose

[butter pecan fan]

The amount of sheer, unadulteratedly untrue bull$h!t contained in this (I'm at a loss for words as to what to call it) has GOT to have set some kind of record.

Now forming: FreepAlert!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Well he says that he doesn't want to live in our country anymore and he's fed up with deadlines.

I'm wondering why he's still here and still doing the deadlines? Could it be old fashioned capitalism?

[dbwz]

Did anyone actually read that entire load of whatever...

No, but I did notice that the "a's" (not as letters within the words, but standing alone as articles) in the piece look as if they're in boldface. At least they do on my browser.

Andrew, did you source and copy the html right from the Salon page?

[Lancey Howard]

This cartoonist is a one-note samba.
I checked out his cartoon for a while a few years back when it first started to appear in the Philadelphia Inquirer. It got old quick. I simply never saw anything funny from the guy, although maybe the demographic he is aiming at, (bitter, black, urban malcontents) find him clever. I think the guy drew maybe 50 panels and he just keeps using the same ones over and over. I hate to say it, but I think the guy is nothing more than an affirmative action cartoonist who didn't pan out and now he's "unfireable". Somewhere along the line he must have envisioned himself as the black Garry Trudeau, but why? There's a whole lot of black cartoonists who blow this guy away. Ray Billingsley (Curtis) for example, and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start) are two of the best cartoonists in the business, period.

[Slyfox]

I didn't know salon was still in business.

[packrat35]

Not me, halfway through I had to call it quits when I could feel the bile starting to rise.