... at The Newsroom in L.A. Jay-Z was there, too.

Actually, this post is called "Answers to Boondocks Questions"
I've never been good at interacting with readers and stuff, but here's the deal on some of thangs y'all been asking.

1) When's the show coming on?

Despite anything you may have read, there is NO airdate for any Boondocks television show. There is NO guarentee there will even BE a Boondocks television show. If it happens, it's a year away at the earliest.

The show, if it happens, will be on cable. It was never slated for a major Network.

2) What's with the website?

I'd like to bring it back soon. But this is still a one man operation, so who knows? But I have been thinking about finding someone to get it up and running again.

3) How do we get in touch with you?

You can't, really. I can't access the email (I parted ways with my old webmaster and have since lost the passcodes) from the website - and I really don't like giving out my private email. For the record, as a rule I don't read fanmail or hatemail. I like to keep myself pretty isolated from feedback about the strip. Some people think that makes me a real jerk, which of course, I am. All the more reason why you shouldn't worry about getting in touch with me.

I do lecture at colleges - that's the best way to talk to me.
Just don't be like the guy who rolled up on me at Duke in front of a crowd of people and asked if I was still suffering from depression. Yeesh ...

For the record - I was never actually diagnosed with clinical depression.

4) Will there be a Boondocks movie?

Hopefully, but its even farther from being real than the TV show.

5) When's the third book coming out?

Tough to say right now. Hopefully this year. The title is, "Public Enemy #2"

6) Are you single?

Yes. I'm also shallow. You've been warned.

7) Okay - you don't read fanmail and you don't update your website - you basically don't care about your fans, do you?

I appreciate fans. Really, I do. I just think they can be a distraction to a lot of artists. I don't read fanmail or hatemail because I do enough second-guessing of myself as is. The email address is still up there because I don't have access to the website, so I can't change it without great effort and difficulty. Which reminds me ... I really need to do that.

But if you do happen to catch me on the street or at a University you'll find I really am a nice guy.

However, if you're a fan and your felling unloved - here it is from me to you: I love you.

8) Nas or Jay-Z?

I could give a rats ass ...

9) Didn't you used to post as FreeHuey?

Yes, but I forgot my old password, so I created a new name.

10) What did you think about The Roots with Jay-Z?

I only saw the commercial and kept thinking ... "Che?!".

11) Alicia Keys or India Irie?

See question 8.

12) What's up with Rhome?

I was gonna ask you.

13) Do you really think you are the voice of young black America, as the media has sometimes referred to you?

Of course. I'm a cartoonist.

14) Are you really one of People's Most Eligible Bachelors?

Guilty!

15) Did it improve your social life even a little bit?

No comment.

16) Seriously, I mean ... being on the bachelors list - you must have been swimming in honeys, right?

No! Okay! Jesus ... next question! Matter of fact, this interview is over!

United We Stand.

AM

there was an editorial this morning. you should call the comics hotline.

For the record, it was a lettter to the editor from a reader that dissed the Boondocks that day in the Washington Post. (Doesn't mean the editorial board wants the comic out of there, although I don't know for sure.) There was also another letter printed that took the person who wrote the first letter to task. Check it here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11671-2002Feb1.html

Kind of like when David Segal of the Post picked the Coup's album as his #1 record of the year. Lots of folks wrote in to complain and some defended him.

Keep ya head up Aaron!!

peace,
craig

(full disclosure--i freelance for the post...)

http://www.stateoftheunion.net

I thought that was u. Forget about the email, a few of these posts a yr is good enough.

"I annihilate as I articulate" -Jeru

If you're looking for someone to work out a site for you, let me know. I'll be glad to help you out for free, I'd love to be able to do something in return for the pleasure you've given me with the Boondocks so far.

Hop over to www.vinylators.com and check if you like what you see. Email addy : krewcial@skynet.be

take care and keep doing what you do.


krewc
www.vinylators.com

say it fast.
it sounds like Freeway.


e-me: jose3030@hotmail.com
IM: jose3030
http://www.acura-legend.com

thanks for coming thru and showing love and answering questions.

keep the jokes coming. whatever happened to jazmine?

peace

"would tell you it's all good but that's bullshit." Thought

17) Whatever happened to Jazmine?

Nothing. She's still around. It's just always easier for me to write for the fellas.

AM

and does this mean you'll be posting here regularly?
----
"Move like your body got a mind of its own" Black Thought

Not that I care either way, but a number of folks here have been making a big deal about it...Figure you can settle it once and for all.

I love the strip man, keep up the good work.

peace

Iz

-kindablu-

Peace and Blessings,
JMA



"we don't represent the streets/ we represent the folks in 'em" - Talib Kweli - Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought

what is your involvement with this book( http://www.anotherworldispossible.net) and will you be doing any parts of the 36 city tour?


oh and Boodah was asking about you getting your spear......

He may never be allowed to return after threatening to flagellate the University Prez.

Anybody got an MP3 of "Understand" by Ed O.G. and the B.U.L.L.D.O.G.S.? Apparently, it has life-altering potential. Yet I haven't been able to locate it--or even the lyrics. Ah well. Guess I gotta stay in the dark.

>He may never be allowed to
>return after threatening to flagellate
>the University Prez.

Gross exageration! I never threatened anyone ...
>
>Anybody got an MP3 of "Understand"
>by Ed O.G. and the
>B.U.L.L.D.O.G.S.? Apparently, it has life-altering
>potential. Yet I haven't been
>able to locate it--or even
>the lyrics. Ah well. Guess
>I gotta stay in the
>dark.

Hey! I have that song on MP3! Let me know where I should send it to.

AM

Yea man, that was great speech. These super conservative ass folks up here at Duke were pist! It was funny, but you really fucked with the white population when you told them it was the first time that they had ever been scared(cause of september 11th). They just didn't realize it until you said it, so they just got mad. Oh yea, I also would like to thank you for helping define what African-American means to the population here(you know when the multi-racial kid told you that he wasn't black, but multi-racial) you enlightened a lot of people.

peace

"Maaaan life can get all up in your ass, baby you better work it out!" - Pos

"A Diamond in the Rough!" - Big Tony, my roommate after finding a handy snack under his bed.

how far are you into it? have an episode ready? what about the voices? Any celebs?
peace
m!ke

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(((okayoungin' reppin)))

"now he can tell his buddies he rear-ended jennifer aniston.
oohh snap! oohh snap! oohhh snap!"
- jimmy fallon on weekend update 1.19.02

and their sudden need to be "political"

and do you think about that whole pretzel thing?

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18) is ENRON going to come up in a strip?

Probably not. I really don't think we need to be criticizing this administration during a time of national crisis.

19) Are you moving to Canada?

Maybe, someday. Don't know. Depends on how things go here.

20) How far along is the TV show? Any epsiodes ready? Celebs for voices?

The TV show, on the creative end of things, is not very far along at all. I'm currently writing three half-hour episodes. Like I said before, if we started production now it would be probably a year before they were done. As for the voices, nobody has been approached for any of the parts, but we do have people in mind, and they are celebs. That's about all I can say about that.

21) What do you think about the whole pretzel thing?

I did some strips on that. I think they might run this week.

AM

um. why dont they give u the pretty little OK symbol next to your name?

[]

just in case "FreeHuey"'s lurking around this thread ... ;-)

I think you need to do a spoof on the "O'Riley Factor" but call it the "Riley Factor" with Riley shooting off at the mouth about all sorts of irrelevant stuff ... special guests and whatnot.

Shit would be hysterical ... :P

OK I'm done here ...

love and respect,
El Rey

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"Yo he preferido hablar a cosas
imposibles, porque de lo posible se
sabe demasiado." -- Silvio Rodriguez

"if jesus was alive today
he'd be incarcerated
with the rest of the brothers
while uh
the devil would have a great
apartment
on the upper east side
be a guest v.j.
on total request live" - Me'Shell
(god.fear.money)

does kathy kerr still handle your interview requests? where does one send an interview request?

influence over people but, even after the press chewed up G.W. for his complete lack of intelligence, a lot of American folks still went out and voted for him....Why do you suppose this happened?
And two words: Thank you.

words. Add "that the media has a" and it'll make sense.
Peace.

In response to MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, Malcolm X said something like, "He's having dreams while the rest of blacks are having nightmares". Do you think it's more productive being an optimist like King or a cynic like Malcolm X? Obviously some cynics(like you) make some real contributions, but other cynics (like me) go nowhere real fast....

on the ucomics site it says you can order prints from them, but do you see any loot off that?

Just want to make sure i'm using my money as effectively as possible

Dang, what kind of question are you askin? I'm not Aaron but I'll answer on his behalf....OF COURSE he gets a portion of the "loot" and a chunk also goes to the publishers.

[]

How can we get you to come a school for a lecture then?



little....
(c)KayDee

""(c)DaFlashman

And would you lecture up here in Toronto?

Peace,
Kream

into my head.
1-Do your folks and other relatives see eye-to-eye with your political views?
2-What do you do to keep your stress level to a bare minimum?
3-Now that you're semi-famous, are more strangers bugging the shit out of you when you go out in public?
4-Are your days pretty labor-intensive?
5-Are you stationed in L.A.?
6-Who's number one on Huey's hate list?
7-Even if an asshole like Bush weren't in office, do you think the situation's gonna improve any? Even if someone like Al Sharpton were to be elected, how much say will he have in determining the government's policies? Aren't presidents merely puppet figures?
8-What do you mean you don't know what Rhome's up to? I thought the two of you were like the dynamic duo or something.

What do you say to those people who think your strip is racist towards white people?

- Love the strip and I wish you nothing but the best for the future.

Peace

[]

you may have forgot your password, but it wouldn't have mattered because the account was eliminated after some time of inactivity. I periodically run a script that removes all accounts which haven't been used in over 4 months.

I recreated the FreeHuey account so no one else could claim it and perpetrate. If for some reason, you want it back ... or if you're feeling some type of way about the OK I just attached to the Adub handle ... feel free to hit me with an inbox.

... what Dan said. (aoaxomox..)

I'm glad to know that everything is goin aight! We continue to have great pride in showcasing ya strip on the main page of okayplayer everyday.

Keep up the good work as our equal dedication makes an impact, and our integrity shines bright.

Holla!

B.Kyle
_________________
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B.Kyle: Damn Jag, so you're a singer, songwriter, and an accessory to murder!?

"Name 3 beats that are this dope. Are you crazy!?, I feel like beatin somebody up when I hear that sh*t." ~ ?uestlove after hearing a beat for Common's album.

long time no see!
glad to see you're still in the mix

so to speak
heh heh
:-)

don't leave us! we need you more than you even know!
Dove
~Sheepish Lordess of Chaos~

your ass been in LA too long lil homie, you kicking it with East Coast Crips now or what?
___________________________________
no ultimatum, no desperate measures

Where I am from A DUB (Adub) is a $20 sack of weed.

I guess its for medicinal purposes. To handle your critics.
I understand.
When I'm stressed adub sack always tends to calm me down.

yeah i'd like to know how to get you to come speak. at the little liberal arts college of swarthmore.

and if you could send me that mp3 it would be much appreciated, i've been looking for that joint for a long time.

dwansom1@swarthmore.edu

I knew it! I suspected something like this would come out any day now!(J.K.) I appreciate the answers to the Boonquestions, and I suppose A.M. is not missing much by not reading the fan and hatemail at boondocks.net. Basically, the people who like the strip really, REally, REALLY like it, and the people who hate it really, Really, REALLY hate it. The two camps argue and curse each other out daily at the virtually defunct website.

htp.




"Next to God we are indebted to Afrikan women, first for
giving us life and secondly for making that life worth
living." -Mary Mc Leod Bethune

"Don't Hate the PLAYA Boy...hate the GAME," Granddad Freeman of the Boondocks(7-11-99)

*Twenty-three percent of women are "autoerotic singles" — they prefer to achieve sexual satisfaction alone(source-bet.com)

*If U have won a Grammy, one of two things are at play: 1. Your shit is TIGHT
2. U are white
-(Me)

"'Cuz U answer the phone 'peace' that means U not a freak?"-The Questions(c) Common

Check this board more often for stuff on the Boondocks, pretty much the reason why I came to Okayplayer.com.
________________________________________
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new and improved
kick the turtle!

why isn't the boondocks hosted at or by OKP.com? There definitely seems to be a fit. All the fam on OKP love the boondocks and it seemed to fit on the news page from the first time it appeared (I was lurking back then). OKP and Boondocks go together like peanut butter and crackers. no, I mean, fish and grits. or kool-aid and sugar...damn I'm thusty!
_____________________________________________________________
And don't forget:
to know me is to love me
to love me is to hate me
to hate me is to not know me at all

It wasn't supposed to make sense.
Wisdom is as wisdom does.

AIM: Mindsexiest777

1) Great Job. Definitely the best comic to grace the local funny papers since Far Side.

2) Whassup with the Asian DJ caharacter... Always looking for some representation and just wondering if you ever planned on bringing him back.

3) Whassup with Merchandise? Any Boondocks T-shirts on the way????

Maintain and Continue,
Dawg




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-Almost Famous

What ya gonna do? Exactly what I thought- Nothin'/In the sport of Frontin'/you the undisputed champion/i'm in a class you can't be in/ my words are flesh like Jesus the Aquarian...

You stoppin us/is propoterous/like an androgenous/mysogynist/you comin to me at the wrong time/when i'm in my prime/like optimus.

-Talib

They loved your series on Grand Theft Auto 3. Peace be from a long-time fan (and a man who should have heeded your sage advice four years ago but had to learn SOME shit the hard way).

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...STOP THE PRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...those are not the words of Aaron Mcgruger
...that you see to the list of "BOONDOCK QUESTION"
...Aaron McGruger has been under a lot of stress recently
...to the point wghere he has even been contimplating...
..."Faking his own press"...
...AY URGE YOU
...DON'T BE FOOLED BY IMITATIONS

...Aaron McGruger would never say those things
...which you've just read

...and wghat a frivolous attempt at impersonation...
...(such limitation)

...there has been a sweeping upsurgence
...by an underground anti-draft committe
...to dethrone the "Kink of Comic Strips"
...many have set out to tarnish one oh hip-hop's
...most lamb-inated images

...luckily ay got here just in the niqk of time

..."Wgho am ay?"

..."Ay am Aaron McGruger's dry cleaner."

..."Ay have the final say so
...in wghich strips get passed and wghich get trashed"
...a priviledge afforded me for the tidious job
...of piqking thousands of kuk-a-bugs
...off of Mr. McGruger's cashmiere sweater's"

...AY HOLD THE TRUE MCGRUGER ANSWERS
...and ay would like the opportunity to set
...the o.k. family on the right strip

1)When's the show coming on?

(tram) No one wants to see the Aaron McGruger show. The strip is phat just like it is. Watch reruns of "The P.J.'s" if you feel the need to squeeze any more life out of my strip.

2)What's with the website?

(tram) The website is taking a baqk seat to the "Boondoqk's Kiqk-off bash". Held anually the get-it-together will introduce "third word americans" to latest advancements in technology and "bite-sized politics"...but eat before arriving. Boondoqks is not here to force-feed. Boondoqks is here to inform.


3)How do we get in touch with you?

(tram) Aaron McGruger can not possibly answer all of a political fanbases mail though an email address (Boonmail@boondoqks.net) is at mine and your disposal. Meaning pertinent information may or may not reach me, Aaron, Mcgruger, but a direct email address has been provided for those fans, supporters, critics who feel their opinions a just a touch above the norm and a little more important than the general public - those that consider guestbooks "polyester software". Word from Aaron McGuger to the wise: "If you want to be heard, be my guest..". Just remember "I don't want to hear it, if my public doesn't"


{TO BE CONTINUED...}



4)Will there be a Boondocks movie?


5)When's the third book coming out?


6)Are you single?


7)Okay - you don't read fanmail and you don't update your website - you basically don't care about your fans, do you?


8)Nas or Jay-Z?


9)Didn't you used to post as FreeHuey?


10)What do you think about The Roots with Jay-Z?


11)Alicia Keys or India Irie?


12)What's up with Rhome?


13)Do you really think you are the voice of young blaqk America, as the media has sometimes referred to you?


14)Are you really one of People's Most Eligible Bachelors?


15)Did it improve your social life even a little bit?


16)Seriously, i mean...being on the bachelor's list - you must have been swimming in honeys, right?

----------------------------------------(-)po1
Ay post beqause aym honored
on your breakfast toast--enjambment (orizit)

izitmi...
izit...
izi...

>...STOP THE PRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>...those are not the words of
>Aaron Mcgruger
>...that you see to the list
>of "BOONDOCK QUESTION"
>...Aaron McGruger has been under a
>lot of stress recently
>...to the point wghere he has
>even been contimplating...
>..."Faking his own press"...
>...AY URGE YOU
>...DON'T BE FOOLED BY IMITATIONS
>
>...Aaron McGruger would never say those
>things
>...which you've just read
>
>...and wghat a frivolous attempt at
>impersonation...
>...(such limitation)
>
>...there has been a sweeping upsurgence
>
>...by an underground anti-draft committe
>...to dethrone the "Kink of Comic
>Strips"
>...many have set out to tarnish
>one oh hip-hop's
>...most lamb-inated images
>
>...luckily ay got here just in
>the niqk of time
>
>..."Wgho am ay?"
>
>..."Ay am Aaron McGruger's dry cleaner."
>
>
>..."Ay have the final say so
>
>...in wghich strips get passed and
>wghich get trashed"
>...a priviledge afforded me for the
>tidious job
>...of piqking thousands of kuk-a-bugs
>...off of Mr. McGruger's cashmiere sweater's"
>
>
>...AY HOLD THE TRUE MCGRUGER ANSWERS
>
>...and ay would like the opportunity
>to set
>...the o.k. family on the right
>strip
>
>1)When's the show coming on?
>
>(tram) No one wants to see
>the Aaron McGruger show. The
>strip is phat just like
>it is. Watch reruns of
>"The P.J.'s" if you feel
>the need to squeeze any
>more life out of my
>strip.
>
>2)What's with the website?
>
>(tram) The website is taking a
>baqk seat to the "Boondoqk's
>Kiqk-off bash". Held anually the
>get-it-together will introduce "third word
>americans" to latest advancements in
>technology and "bite-sized politics"...but eat
>before arriving. Boondoqks is not
>here to force-feed. Boondoqks is
>here to inform.
>
>
>3)How do we get in touch
>with you?
>
>(tram) Aaron McGruger can not possibly
>answer all of a political
>fanbases mail though an email
>address (Boonmail@boondoqks.net) is at mine
>and your disposal. Meaning pertinent
>information may or may not
>reach me, Aaron, Mcgruger, but
>a direct email address has
>been provided for those fans,
>supporters, critics who feel their
>opinions a just a touch
>above the norm and a
>little more important than the
>general public - those that
>consider guestbooks "polyester software". Word
>from Aaron McGuger to the
>wise: "If you want to
>be heard, be my guest..".
>Just remember "I don't want
>to hear it, if my
>public doesn't"
>
>
{CONTINUATION OF OUR REGULARLLY SCHEDULED BOONCAST}

4)Will there be a Boondocks movie?

There will be Boondoqks: The Movement. Coming to a horse near water.

5)When's the third book coming out?

When the "Third Word" population strategically separates society from the plague of "detested guests" i've so diligently listed in a readily easily accescible "hate book". I've done the duty of drawing the "unseen hands" off the birds in the bush. It is up to the public to annihilate their codes of honor on site.

6)Are you single?

Single and mur~r~red.

7)Okay - you don't read fanmail
and you don't update your
website - you basically don't
care about your fans, do
you?

I've compiled an assembly of jerks into a single composite care of a "hate book". "Hey young world...do you want more?"


8)Nas or Jay-Z?

The one who keeps good head on his own shoulders.

9)Didn't you used to post as
FreeHuey?

Still, does, now.

10)What do you think about The
Roots with Jay-Z?

Phila-pro-lifia volume: vile.


11)Alicia Keys or India Irie?

"She who tunes finest..."


12)What's up with Rhome?

Rhome?

13)Do you really think you are
the voice of young blaqk
America, as the media has
sometimes referred to you?

Yes, i think. Yes i am. In fact i have always done that and my being, my voice, is affirmative. Color and time is not my enemy yet i am fully aware of the wages of war that time and color hold: Ignorance, blindness, as well as the absence of mercy.
"And I assure the people that I, Aaron, McGruger, would never, ever, eeever 'inhale a pretlze (?) ...pretzle'!"

14)Are you really one of People's
Most Eligible Bachelors?

...Rhome is.

15)Did it improve your social life
even a little bit?

"You have the right to keep a pen on you at all times..."

16)Seriously, i mean...being on the bachelor's
list - you must have
been swimming in honeys, right?

"...you have a right to. . ."

----------------------------------------(-)po1
Ay post beqause aym honored

on your breakfast toast--enjambment (orizit)

izitmi...
izit...
izi...





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Ay post beqause aym honored
on your breakfast toast--enjambment (orizit)

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