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''The Boondocks'' was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006. Created by McGruder in 1996 for Hitlist.com, an early online music website, it was printed in the monthly hip hop magazine ''The Source'' in 1997. As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999. A popular and controversial strip, ''The Boondocks'' satirizes African American culture and American politics as seen through the eyes of young, black radical Huey Freeman. McGruder's syndicate said it was among the biggest launches the company ever had. McGruder sold the television and film rights for the strip to Sony Pictures Entertainment. ''The Boondocks'' animated TV series premiered on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block on November 6, 2005. McGruder launched an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign for a live action movie featuring the ''Boondocks'' character Uncle Ruckus in 2013.〔(UncleRuckusMovie.mov )〕 == Publication history == The strip debuted on Hitlist.com on February 8, 1996. It later appeared in ''The Diamondback'' under editor Jayson Blair on December 3, 1996, paying McGruder $30 per strip—$17 more than other cartoonists. McGruder ended the strip's run in ''The Diamondback'' on March 18, 1997, two weeks after the strip was omitted due to a technical error and a ''Diamondback'' staffer printed the word "OOPS" in its place without an explanation. He pulled the strip after the paper refused to run an apology.〔Litten, Kevin, ("A little Huey himself" ). ''The Diamondback,'' November 7, 2005. Retrieved December 3, 2006.〕 (Upon the revelation in 2004 of news article fabrications by Blair, by then a reporter for ''The New York Times'', McGruder's comic strip joined others in lampooning Blair.) In Fall 2003, Boston, Massachusetts-based artist Jennifer Seng assumed art duties from McGruder. In an interview with ''The New Yorker'', McGruder said, "If something had to give, it was going to be the art. I think I'm a better writer than artist." Carl Jones succeeded Seng as illustrator in late 2004. In the introduction to the collection ''Public Enemy #2'', McGruder wrote, "I had hired an artist to help me on some of the art duties. People think I stopped drawing the strip, but that's never been the case. To this day there has never been a single Boondocks strip that I did not personally touch—I still obsess over the details of Huey, Riley, Caesar and Granddad. I still go over every panel. I still care what it looks like, and I always will." On February 28, 2006, McGruder announced that his strip would go on a six-month hiatus, starting March 27, 2006, with new installments resuming in October. Repeats of earlier strips were offered by Universal Press Syndicate in the interim. ''The Boondocks'' was syndicated to over 300 clients at its peak, but more than half substituted different features rather than publish reruns during the hiatus. On September 25, 2006, Universal Press Syndicate president Lee Salem announced that the comic would not return, saying, "Although Aaron McGruder has made no statement about retiring or resuming ''The Boondocks'' for print newspapers ... newspapers should not count on it coming back in the foreseeable future." He added that Universal would welcome McGruder back if he chose to return. Greg Melvin, McGruder's editor at the syndicate, met with him in an unsuccessful attempt to talk the cartoonist into returning. McGruder cited his work on the Cartoon Network show among other projects as reasons for not then returning to the strip. After the strip was canceled, reruns continued to be carried by some newspapers through November 26, 2006. Reruns of the strip are available online at GoComics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Boondocks (comic strip)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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