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Title: Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper by Aaron McGruder ISBN: 0-7407-0609-8 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Strangers in a strange land
Comment: "The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper," by Aaron McGruder, is a collection of comic strips that tell the story of the Freeman brothers. Huey and Riley Freeman are two young African-American boys who have moved from Chicago to a nearly all-white neighborhood with their grandfather. McGruder mines the saga of these strangers in a strange land for some potent humor and cutting social satire.
McGruder has developed some of the best comic strip characters I have ever read: Huey, a pint-sized revolutionary and conspiracy theorist with a huge afro; gangsta wannabe Riley; their crochety grandfather; Jazmine, a mixed-race neighbor girl at odds with her ethnic heritage; "Psycho 'Star Wars' Guy"; and more. Typical plots involve Huey starting a neighborhood Klanwatch, delving into the "Santa Conspiracy," etc. Along the way there are jokes and slams involving Star Wars, UPN, and BET.
"The Boondocks" is a comic strip with both brains and heart--unafraid to be controversial, but also unashamed to explore the humanity of its characters. Is it a "Peanuts" for the 21st century? I don't know, but I do know it's good stuff.
Rating: 5
Summary: Free Jolly Jenkins!
Comment: I was happily surprised to see this in a bookstore -- I didn't even know it was out there. Guess nobody at Andrews McMeel is exactly breakin' their backs promoting this. Anyway, if 'Peanuts' owned the '50s and '60s, 'Doonesbury' owned the '70s, and 'Bloom County,' 'The Far Side' and 'Calvin & Hobbes' owned the '80s, who owned the '90s? There was a long, LONG dry spell before Aaron McGruder came along in 1999. He may yet own the new decade as well. What comic strip that originated in the '90s has been this consistently funny and relevant and biting? 'Dilbert'? It has its moments but mainly appeals to guys like Scott Adams. 'Fox Trot'? Thanks, but I prefer a strip that slams 'Star Wars' to a strip that has devoted entire weeks to 'Star Wars' homages.
'The Boondocks' has managed to offend both white and black people, which means it's doing something right. The nice thing is that it also manages to entertain both white and black people -- at least those who get the joke, who find humor in the goofiness specific to white people and the goofiness specific to black people. This isn't a get-whitey strip -- McGruder has a bit of fun at the expense of his protagonists, the ever-righteous Huey and his gangsta-wannabe brother Riley. Yet he also lets each of them have moments of clarity and insight. Even at his most ruthless, there's very little mean-spiritedness in McGruder's satire -- he's one of those satirists who has a kind of affection for the stupidities he's skewering, because he knows life wouldn't be as funny without them. (Perfect example: his ongoing digs at B.E.T.)
In all, this book is the beginning of what's shaping up to be a great career. Jump on board now.
Rating: 5
Summary: McGruder's Best
Comment: The Boondocks is without a doubt, my favorite comic strip. Aaron McGruder is at his best in the beginning of the Boondocks series, when the strips didn't just center around politics. The transition from the inner city of Chicago to mostly white suburbs is shown with biting and brillant humor through the eyes of ten year old Huey Freeman. Mocking everything from the NAACP to BET to world leaders, McGruder makes Huey seem very observant and intelligent, without becoming too much of a smart aleck.
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Title: Fresh For '01... You Suckas: A Boondocks Collection by Aaron McGruder ISBN: 0740713957 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Fear of a Black Marker: Another K Chronicles Compendium by Keith Knight ISBN: 0916397637 Publisher: Manic D Press Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel by Aaron McGruder, Reginald Hudlin, Kyle Baker ISBN: 1400048591 Publisher: Crown Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Black Images in the Comics: A Visual History by Fredrik Stromberg, Charles Johnson ISBN: 1560975466 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism by Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Chairman Jefferson Mao, Gabriel Alvarez, Brent Rollins ISBN: 0060988967 Publisher: ReganBooks Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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