[B-Chan]

MacGruder may mock Whitey in the above panel, but you’ll notice that in his daily strip one of the black characters has no problem dating the blonde “white prize”. The message? White guy as athlete no, white girl as sexual status symbol OK .

Marse Aaron obviously thinks honkies is all right as long as dey keeps in dey place.

As a working, professional cartoonist, my opinion is that Aaron MacGruder is a talentless dorkwad who isn't fit to dump the pencil shavings of real artists like Ollie Harrington, E. Simms Campbell or Keith Knight.

Comics are America’s greatest native artform — and black Americans are an important part of its history. Anybody who wants to see what truly talented and skilled black cartoonists (and there have been plenty of them) have done need look no further than Tim Jackson’s fantastic online archive. Once you’ve seen these pros’ work, MacGruder’s crude scratchings barely rate the name “cartoon”.

[shellshocked]

Something tells me that his "cartoons" are computer drawn and all he does is place images with callouts. As a computer guy, it isn't hard to spot regular shapes that don't seem to be freehand.

[bigsigh]

perhaps, we're paying much too much attention to this idiot and his cartoon. Write your paper and tell them to get it off the kids comics page.

[mlmr]

link doesnt work

[B-Chan]

Corrected link to Cartoonists of Color archive. Sorry for the mixup.