Product Description

Since its debut in April 1999, The Boondocks has found a home in more than 250 newspapers, making its launch the strongest since Calvin And Hobbes and For Better Or For Worse. The rich, multilayered comic strip offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple premise: Two young boys, Riley and Huey, move from inner-city Chicago to live with their grandfather. The tension increases, however, because the two boys are African-Americans now compelled to adapt to a white suburban world. They must take all they've learned in the 'hood and apply it to life in the 'burbs. Aaron McGruder has created a strip unlike any other. Superbly illustrated, The Boondocks has stirred controversy, attracted widespread media coverage, and won readers who've applauded McGruder's unapologetic and humorous approach to race. This second collection includes some of the year's most compelling story lines. The Boondocks is a groundbreaking strip of enormous proportions. It's certain to only increase in popularity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #154194 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
McGruder has become a widely heard and respected commentator on race, politics, and entertainment. The cartoonist was born in Chicago but grew up in racially diverse Columbia, Maryland. The Boondocks first saw print in the student newspaper at the University of Maryland where he majored in Afro-American studies.

Customer Reviews

The Best Comic Strip Today
From reading this collection of "The Boondocks", I have to say that it is one of the funniest comic strips that I have read in a long time. When I read it, I was laughing out loud at a lot of the jokes that Aaron McGruder have put in about a myriad of subjects. The fact that it's also controversial because of some of the politcial views that are expressed I think is also good since there are a lot that should be said surrounding these issues.

With all these put into context, I think that this collection should be read and I do recommend it to everyone.

drop the B&add a C&that is what Mcgruder presents
I once kinda thought that Mcgruder had a interesting take on things,but over time it has become extra buffonary just like that mess that Chris Rock&that overblown&Vastly Overrated Dave Chappelle presented.usually that kind of garbage gets kicked to the curb&Hopefully this mess will get taken off the air.the show&what it represents is mindless buffonary&Another form of stereotyping.

1 star for the hypocrisy and racism of the creator and his supporters
Aaron McGruder once called Rush Limbaugh a "racist" for his comments about the "NFL wanting a black quarterback to succeed."

It is only fair to apply the same R-word reference to Mr. Gruder as he uses his characters to make similar racial comments.

He gets a one star for his hypocrisy, not for what he says.

My questions are: Would you purchase material from a (conservative) white person who regularly involves race in his or her material, yet condemns a (liberal) black like Aaron McGruder as a racist for regularly involving race in boondocks?

Would you purchase material if the white person in question acted like he or she had a chip on his shoulder towards blacks?

If so, then purchasing Boondocks would not make you a hypocrite like Aaron (chip on his shoulder toward whites) McGruder, who has no problems regularly using race in his comic strip, yet condemns others, like Rush Limbaugh, as racists for doing the same thing.

Judging by the negative comments to this review, it appears McGruder's supporters believe it is ok for a black person to use race, but not ok for a white person. The term racist would be applied if someone was to say it was ok for a white person, but not ok for a black person.


Judging by the reviews, their most-likely university education taught them ways to justify their hypocrisy. It never taught them reading comprehension as the review is not critique of the strip, but the character of who is writing it and who supports the writer. Their education never taught them fairness based on action. Instead, in this case, they use race and ideology to judge what is right or wrong. These reviews truely reflect how the extreme "educated", "progressive" left is just as bad as the extreme "ignornant", "knuckle-dragging" right wing"

Amazon.com is not guilty of hypocrisy as it retails the Amos and Andy TV series.

The white equivalent of this would be written by someone with a chip on his or her shoulder towards blacks. Today, such a strip would never be allowed to be shown in most of the mainstream media newspapers.

As there were "Uncle Tom" or "Step-in Fetchit" blacks who would condone and excuse racism from whites, there are equally "politically correct" whites who condone and excuse hypocritical racism by Mr. Gruder.

Thus, one star allocated to the hypocrisy of McGruder's supporters for condoning something they would not allow the white equivalent to be shown in any of the mainstream media.


By the way, why does Amazon include a 'NO' in 'was this review helpful to you?' People are only human and don't like opinions that differ from themselves. With some who are less mature, this 'NO' makes it too easy express such displeasure.

Are they trying to discourage negative reviews, hence not purchase the CD? Such reviews only help a person in not being dissatisfied a product that received positive reviews