My favorite black revolutionary, Huey Freeman, goes on a 6-month hiatus as today's "Boondocks" will be the last episode. Huey, Riley, Caesar, Granddad, Jazmine, and Ruckus will remain in the ink bottle while Aaron McGruder recharges his batteries. Juggling a daily comic strip and an animated version of the strip on TV took its toll on McGruder. I don't know how the guys who draw these "pitchers" can do it for years on end. "Calvin and Hobbes" creator, Bill Waterson, drew his wonderful characters for ten years before walking away from that strip. Garry Trudeau drew "Doonesbury" as a feature in the campus newspaper at Yale for two years (1968-1970). After graduating, he launched "Doonesbury" as a syndicated strip in 1970. In January 1983, Trudeau began a 22-month hiatus and resumed the strip in October 1984. So, I look forward to Huey's return. If this is (fair & balanced) guarded optimism, so be it.
Click on the image to enlarge the final "Boondocks" until 2007.
Copyright © 2006 Aaron McGruder
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