[andrew]

And the folks at Salon wonder why they are losing millions.

[lawgirl]

I HATE this cartoon. ANd it has nothing to do with race.

[Cicero]

Why doesn't Salon hire this guy to do their cartoons? That should improve their financial position.

What a mean-looking kid.

[lizma]

"Let's Roll" just doesn't apply to the Taliban.

[goodnesswins]

"...or am I just going to quit now and hope this Hollywood stuff pans out? It's always a debate.

Can we HELP him DECIDE!!!!?????

[dighton]

Since Sept. 11, McGruder has been setting fire to the funny pages with incendiary panels of political humor mocking everything from Attorney General Ashcroft's anti-terrorist dragnet and the public's fear of anthrax to FBI wiretaps and the nation's ongoing orgy of patriotism.

Salon & McGruder, ESAD.

[fini]

I'm just glad that McGruder is not a conservative. Many of his statements defy logic.

[PLMerite]

Like I give a @#!@#$ what this flit hack, no-talent "cartoonist" thinks about anything...

[willyboyishere]

This is a very stupid young man. He can't draw either.

[Bogey78O]

And the sad thing is that there are a good many blacks who feel just like him.

Take one part intelligence and one part bigotry mix it in a big bowl and mix with pure ego.

[Post Toasties]

There's so much to choose from, but I'll just give this one illustration of the cartoonist's overt hypocrisy :

How dare the media just give in when the government says don't air any of Osama bin Laden's video messages!

And he is criticizing the US government for its role in supporting terrorism? No wonder he's in the funny pages. That's where he belongs.

[isthisnickcool]

Pretty funny. All over this interview the dumb kid make a great pitch for the capitalist way of doing things. "I'm in 250 newspapers". "The syndicate has not asked me to do anything different". "I make a lot of money". "I can live anywhere".

He talks about the business he is in like a pro. Then he talks about working in TV, etc.

This kid would not be interviewed by Salon (no big deal, lower share price than Enron) and be in the position he is in if not for the system he seems to hate. A system he is very much a whore for. And he is in the print and entertainment media. And he gives them a great BJ in this interview. Now, if he had any balls, he'd pen some stuff that's really cutting edge. Something to the right. Be he can't. Jokes on him.

As far as Bush being stupid. Well, from Ann Richards on he has outsmarted them all. And he is the leader of the free world today. Something this pissant cartoonist will never be.

[VaBthang4]

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

[Jonathon Spectre]

I'm just going to start slapping, hard, in the face, anyone who dares say "The President wasn't elected" in my presence. I have officially had enough.

[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.

[garyhope]

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

[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

[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?

[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.

[JoeMomma]

I actually liked the Boondocks comic strip. Although I rarely agreed with it, I thought it was sharp humor and social criticism.

It turns out the the comic ctrip is sharper than the guy drawing it up. McGruder really comes off as a real nutcase in this article who just hates freedom. If he wants to leave the US and go join the Taliban, the US will be a better nation.

[Rainbow Rising]

To be fair, though, I believe even the Clinton administration supported the Taliban in the beginning because they were viewed as a stabilizing force. Well, to hell with Clinton, too. I'm not a Democrat. I don't give a damn about Clinton. Hold these people responsible! You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

So does this mean that McGruder will use his strip to slam Clinton for rejecting Sudan's offer to extradite Bin Laden? I guess he'll get around to doing that just as soon as he's done making fun of Bush's use of the term "evildoers." Something tells me that I should not hold my breath.

[general_re]

Yes, I have thought about leaving. Right now, I can't even find the time to get an apartment in L.A. So when my life settles, and I have to think about where I'm going to raise my kids, when I have them, Canada will be the first place I look. I've never had the opportunity to go overseas because I was broke up until a couple of years ago. Now that I have money, I have to find time to really see the rest of the world. I can't say this is the best place on earth because I haven't been enough places. But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care. When I visited Canada, I didn't have health care here. I go there, I have health insurance.

Dear Canada,

Merry Christmas!!!

Love,
The United States

And you probably thought we wouldn't get you anything ;)

[horsewhispersc]

"Oh, you speak so well." That's nuts. You don't say that about the president. We're supposed to have higher standards.

LOL tooooo funny! Kid's sharp!

[.30Carbine]

What I know, I get from the television and the newspapers,

Aaron McGruder didn't need to say this, it comes across loud and clear in his interview and in the strip. He sounds like a Black Panther - "Take one part intelligence and one part bigotry mix it in a big bowl and mix with pure ego." - as Bogey78O says above.

I live in VT, so I don't have a lot of black friends - we're the whitest state in the union - but from those I have, Christian folk, all, I have learned that the 'Black Community' is pretty harsh on any of their number thinking or (God forbid) voting against the Liberal Democrat groupthink. The pressure to follow the beliefs of the group is so strong that even sincere, life-affirming Christians will vote for a pro-abort Gore, or put up with the sexual sins of a Clinton for the sake of unity in the group.

Aaron McGruder may want to think he is controversial and a loner, way out there in front of the pack as he is with his cartoon and his income, but the truth is that he is not applying the God-given gift and intelligence he has to truly examining America's political scene. He is a Black Sheeple.

May God wake him up.

[pchuck]

Oh, that is so controversial and original to boot.

I guy the little guy who draws funny pictures is looking for his 15 minutes of fame.

[sugar_puddin]

Come on, Bush is a moron. There is no doubt about it.

Yeah, and that's why Bush is the President of the United States. He is the most powerful man in the world, and this jacka$$ is a bitter little cartoonist. So, who's the moron?