Re: 6-month break for 'Boondocks'
- From: HS WRand Om <strom_go@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:31:35 GMT
Mojo wrote:
http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-quick28.1feb28,0,5112533.story?coll=cl-tv-features
Aaron McGruder, creator of "The Boondocks" newspaper strip, will take a six-month sabbatical from the politically charged cartoon beginning March 27.
No official reason for the break was given by Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes the strip to 300 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. McGruder could not be reached for comment.
McGruder for more than a year has been juggling the strip and the animated series it spawned on the Cartoon Network. The "Boondocks" series was just renewed for a second season.
The Times plans to replace the strip with "The Flying McCoys" during McGruder's absence. "The Boondocks" is due to return in October.
Wonder if this is the beginning of the end for the strip or a chance for McGruder to refocus his creative energies on it. Or maybe the time he needs to break in the new writers and artists for the strip so he can focus on the TV show!
It doesn't say if the syndicate will be keeping the contracts active with reruns of old strips or just release papers from their contracts. Didn't Doonesbury have to win back it's old slot after Trudeau's sabbatical?
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