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The Boondocks  by Aaron McGruder

“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…

The strip depicts Huey Freeman and his younger brother Riley, two young children who have been moved out of the South Side of Chicago with their grandfather Robert to live with him in the predominantly white fictional suburb of Woodcrest (in Maryland, as seen from the area code stated in the March 16, 2000 strip). This relates to McGruder’s childhood move from Chicago to Columbia, a diverse Maryland suburb. The title word “boondocks” alludes to the isolation from primarily African-American urban life that the characters feel, and permits McGruder some philosophical distance.

Huey is a politically perceptive devotee of black radical ideas of the past few decades (as explained in the May 4, 1999, strip, Huey is in fact named after Black Panther Huey P. Newton) and is harshly critical of many aspects of modern black culture. For example, he is at least as hard on Vivica Fox and Cuba Gooding, Jr. at times as he is on the Bush administration. Riley, on the other hand, is enamored of gangsta rap culture and the “thug”/bling-bling lifestyle. Their grandfather Robert is a firm disciplinarian, World War II veteran, and former Civil rights activist who is offended by both their values and ideas…

The Boondocks was very political and occasionally subject to great controversy, usually sparked by the comments and behavior of its main character, Huey. The comic strip has been withheld by newspapers several times. In this respect, it is similar to Doonesbury. In particular, the principal characters often discussed racial and American socio-economic class issues. Because of its controversy and serious subject matter, many newspaper publishers either moved the strip to the op-ed section of the paper, pulled more potentially controversial strips from being published, didn’t publish the strip at all, or canceled it altogether. Similar reactions have been faced by other strips, such as Doonesbury.“ (X)

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Pero que vicio llevo estos días a #pockyandrocky. No pasa el tiempo por esta maravilla. Un píxel precioso, con una jugabilidad increíble, que ya querrían muchos lanzamientos “neo-retros” a día de hoy. Por cosas como esta estoy enamorado de los #16bits

I’ve been playing Pocky & Rocky these days. I love it. The time doesn’t go with it. Graphics, controll, gameplay better than a lot of “new looks like retro games”.

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