McGruder set a goal of $200,000 for startup donations at between January 30 through March 1, 2013, but the campaign ended with 2,667 backers and $129,963. Gary Anthony Williams would reprise his role. McGruder expressed interest in 2013 about filming a movie featuring The Boondocks TV series supporting character Uncle Ruckus. An animated television series adaptation of the strip proved successful on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Five collections of The Boondocks have been published: All The Rage, Public Enemy #2, A Right To Be Hostile, Fresh for '01: You Suckaz, and Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper. In six months, the comic strip was being distributed to more than 200 publications. Newton) and his younger brother and wannabe gangsta, Riley, from inner-city Chicago who are relocated to live with their grandfather in a sedate suburb. The comic strip's main characters are two young African-American brothers, Huey (named after Huey P. McGruder signed a deal with the Universal Press Syndicate and in April 1999, the strip began appearing in 160 newspapers. The Boondocks also briefly appeared as a comic strip in the University of Maryland's newspaper The Diamondback during Jayson Blair's tenure as editor-in-chief. At the time, he was also a DJ on The Soul Controllers Mix Show on WMUC. The Boondocks began in 1996 as a webcomic on, one of the first online music websites.
Following two years he left the school and transferred to public high school, Oakland Mills High School and the University of Maryland, from which he graduated with a degree in African American Studies.Ĭareer The Boondocks and related work McGruder attended the Jesuit school, Loyola Blakefield, from grades seven to nine. When Aaron was six years old, his family moved to Columbia, Maryland, after his father accepted a job with the National Transportation Safety Board. Aaron Vincent McGruder (born May 29, 1974) is an American writer, cartoonist, and producer best known for creating The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip and its animated TV series adaptation.Īaron McGruder was born in Chicago, Illinois.
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