By: E&P Staff Many people have guessed that "The Boondocks" comic didn't return from sabbatical this fall because Aaron McGruder was busy with "The Boondocks" TV show.
The cartoonist, speaking last night at the University of South Florida, cited at least one other reason. "I got sick of the strip and sick of politics. It was Bush, Bush, Bush. Okay, he's dumb, we get it," said McGruder, as quoted in a St. Petersburg Times story linked to today on DailyCartoonist.com.
If his Universal Press Syndicate comic ever resumes, added McGruder, it would be online.
He also discussed the Cartoon Network's "Boondocks" series with the Florida crowd of nearly 500. "It's a show for people who look at the world and say, 'There's something seriously wrong here,'" said McGruder, as quoted by the Times' Amber Mobley. "There are people who get satire, [people] with critical thinking skills. And then there are those who don't get it. This show was created for people who get it. Everyone else we're really not too concerned about."
The cartoonist also said his TV audience "gets it more than your average newspaper reader [who's] a 50-year-old white man."
Universal launched "The Boondocks" comic in 1999, and was syndicating it to more than 300 clients when McGruder went on hiatus this spring.
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