[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.