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...Chappelle's Show, though on hiatus, is still throwing elbows on DVD, while the most anticipated show of the fall is the Rock-produced Everybody Hates Chris on UPN, in which a white kid uses the N word during a fight scene. October brings an animated version of Aaron McGruder's militantly funny comic strip The Boondocks to Cartoon Network. Ridley, once a writer on Martin Lawrence's sitcom Martin, says that means there is more pressure to stand out. "When I started out," he says, "black TV was very limited--Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Homeboys in Outer Space...
Stacey J. Sublett ’05 is a government concentrator in Lowell House. When not fending off cockroaches, Stacey enjoys long walks along the harbor, cozy dogs and Elvis Costello. But this Jersey girl’s real passion lies in her love for Aaron McGruder, Carrot Top movies and performance art. In her last year at Harvard, Stacey hopes to actually draw a funny cartoon. Please let her know how she’s doing at sublett@fas.harvard.edu. Look for her cartoon on Mondays...
Reginald Hudlin ’83, the director of films such as House Party and Ladies’ Man and co-author of the novel with Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder, gave a presentation that drew both laughs and concerned nods from the audience and panelists...
Graphic novels used to be viewed as comic books--only bigger and more pretentious. Now that sales are booming, the medium is being embraced by artists as a hip way to tell challenging stories. The just released Birth of a Nation (Crown; 140 pages) by Aaron McGruder, creator of the controversial comic strip The Boondocks, and Reginald Hudlin, director of the 1990 movie House Party, began as a movie script that used race as the centerpiece of a political satire. "By the time we realized how difficult that would be to sell in Hollywood, we had already fallen in love...
After Sept. 11, Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks, above, morphed from a socially minded strip about kids and race into a pen-and-ink tirade against the Administration. One scathingly personal series about Condoleezza Rice got the strip banned from numerous papers. Liberal war-horse Doonesbury has unsurprisingly taken on Iraq, but a fresher (and more Rrated) critique comes from Get Your War On (online and in Rolling Stone), written by David Rees using clip-art drawings of cubicle workers sniping...