AARON MCGRUDER
Name: Aaron McGruder
Born: 29 May 1974 Chicago, Illinois
Aaron McGruder (born May 29, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American
cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press
Syndicate comic strip about two young African-American brothers from inner-city
Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb. Through the
leftist Huey (named after Huey P. Newton) and his younger brother Riley, a young
want-to-be gangsta, the strip explores issues involving African American culture
and American politics.
When McGruder's father accepted a job with the National Transportation Safety
Board, McGruder moved to Columbia, Maryland at age six with his parents and his
older brother Dedric. He attended a Jesuit school from grades two to nine,
followed by public high school at Oakland Mills High School and the University
of Maryland, from which he graduated with a degree in African American Studies.
The Boondocks debuted in the campus newspaper, The Diamondback, in late 1997,
under its then-editor, Jayson Blair. McGruder created the comic while working at
the Presentation Graphics Lab on campus. At the time, he was also a DJ on the "Soul
Controllers Mix Show" on WMUC.
McGruder presently lives in Los Angeles, California, where his projects include
the Boondocks animated TV series and the Super Deluxe variety comedy series, "The
Super Rumble Mix Show". He is the author of five "Boondocks" collections: "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" McGruder
is also the co-author, with Reginald Hudlin, of a 2004 graphic novel, Birth of a
Nation, drawn by cartoonist Kyle Baker, and a frequent public speaker on
political and cultural issues.
Name: Aaron McGruder
Born: 29 May 1974 Chicago, Illinois
Aaron McGruder (born May 29, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American
cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press
Syndicate comic strip about two young African-American brothers from inner-city
Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb. Through the
leftist Huey (named after Huey P. Newton) and his younger brother Riley, a young
want-to-be gangsta, the strip explores issues involving African American culture
and American politics.
When McGruder's father accepted a job with the National Transportation Safety
Board, McGruder moved to Columbia, Maryland at age six with his parents and his
older brother Dedric. He attended a Jesuit school from grades two to nine,
followed by public high school at Oakland Mills High School and the University
of Maryland, from which he graduated with a degree in African American Studies.
The Boondocks debuted in the campus newspaper, The Diamondback, in late 1997,
under its then-editor, Jayson Blair. McGruder created the comic while working at
the Presentation Graphics Lab on campus. At the time, he was also a DJ on the "Soul
Controllers Mix Show" on WMUC.
McGruder presently lives in Los Angeles, California, where his projects include
the Boondocks animated TV series and the Super Deluxe variety comedy series, "The
Super Rumble Mix Show". He is the author of five "Boondocks" collections: "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" McGruder
is also the co-author, with Reginald Hudlin, of a 2004 graphic novel, Birth of a
Nation, drawn by cartoonist Kyle Baker, and a frequent public speaker on
political and cultural issues.