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THE BOONDOCKS (FOX) - Cartoon Network is reportedly finalizing a deal to pick up the failed FOX pilot presentation from Sony Pictures Television, based on the comic strip by Aaron McGruder of the same name. The animated series chronicles the clash of cultures that ensues when two youths from inner-city Chicago, Riley and Huey, move to the suburbs to live with their grandfather. McGruder and Reggie Hudlin are the executive producers of the project.

EditorialSecond Thoughts By William W. Lawrence 05/11/2004Every once in a while I get a whining letter from some liberal complaining that because this is a local newspaper I should confine my thoughts to the Little League and tea parties. Well, if there were general circulation newspapers that would confine their opinions to the editorial page and would blast both Democrats and Republicans as I do, then I would at least listen to their arguments. The Inquirer for example places the political cartoons The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder and Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau on its comic pages. The liberal newspaper has...

Aaron McGruder is a creep. He's a black cartoonist whose strip, [i]The Boondocks[/i], is fairly popular. On his radio show, Larry Elder has played excerpts from a speech McGruder made in front of a group of college students. In this speech, he ripped Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice for being mass murderers. Below are links to some panels from an ongoing arc where he takes potshots at Condi Rice (I refuse to post the actual images here): 2003-10-142003-10-152003-10-162003-10-172003-10-18McGruder's websiteYou can find his other cartoons here.