The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for November 12, 2013
November 11, 2013
November 13, 2013
Transcript:
Tom: So, young brother, what's your name? Huey: Huey Freeman. Tom: Huey! That's a great name! Did you know there was once a pretty famous person named Huey? Huey: Perhaps you're referring to Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the black panther party for self-defense and icon of the black power movement of the late sixties and early seventies. I was named after him. Tom: Um, actually, I was thinking of Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the news, pop star of the mid-eighties. Huey: Before my time.
Swalb%515 over 10 years ago
Huey knows his Revolutionary Icons, for sure. White pop-rockers, not so much. Oh, the irony !!
Swalb%515 over 10 years ago
Actually, The Boondocks, a daliy syndicated comic strip was created by Aaron McGruder in 1996 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park, and was later printed in the monthly hip-hop magazine, The Source in 1997. It grew in popularity and the comic strip was picked by The Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19,1999, way before Barack Obama burst on the national political scene. It was discontinued on March 26, 2006, after McGruder made no statement about retiring or continuing the strip. He is working on the animated version of the strip, which has been on the air since November 6, 2005, and will return for a 4th season in January 2014.
the too late song over 10 years ago
Love It
Thomas Scott Roberts creator over 10 years ago
Thankfully he didn’t mean Baby Huey.
e.groves over 10 years ago
Where are Huey and Riley’s parents?
Nighthawks Premium Member over 10 years ago
and here I though he was named after Dewey and Louie’s brother