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It was a Sunday night, and the weather was dreadful—forbiddgly ld and wet, heavy snow givg way to sleet—but three hundred people uld not be terred om droppg five hundred dollars a plate for roast chicken amid the marble-and-velvet splendor of the Metropolan Club, on Fifth Avenue. Jean Ste, a veteran of the liberal party circu and the mother of Katra vann Hvel, <em>The Natn</em>’<em>s</em> edor, was there, as were E. L. Doctorow, John Waters, Charlie Rose, and even John McEnroe. Robert Byrd, the senr senator om Wt Virgia, was an honored gut; Amtrak had been advised of his erary, and, spe service lays all weekend, the tra got him there on time. Joseph Wilson, the former Ambassador to Gabon, ridg a wave of liberal good will sce the polilly motivated outg of his wife, the C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame, attend as well, by special vatn.</p><p class="paywall">Byrd spoke first, and he livered a genero helpg of full-throated Southern oratory. Y, was good to see Saddam gone, Byrd said, but he was ever more nvced, what wh a “swashbucklg, ‘High Noon’ ” kd of Print office, that Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time. “Thank God for urageo stutns like this one,” he said, “which are willg to stand up to the ti of popular nventn.” He reced the closg l of Tennyson’s “Ulyss,” and then, fishg up, voked “the spir of Longfellow.” Standg ovatn.</p><p class="paywall">Toward the ssert (cholate torte) portn of the eveng, Uma Thurman rose to troduce a special gut: Aaron McGr, the creator of the popular and subversive ic strip “The Boondocks,” who, as happens, had travelled farther than anyone else to be there, all the way om Los Angel. McGr, one of only a few proment Ain-Amerin rtoonists, had been makg wav all the right ways, pokg nspicuo fun at Trent Lott, the N.R.A., the war effort. An exhibn of his ic strips—characters wh Aos and dreadlocks drawn a style borrowg heavily om Japane <em>manga</em>, __wh accentuated __foreheads and ey—was on display the Metropolan Club’s Great Hall. It seemed to be, as a <em>Natn</em> ntributor said later, “his ronatn as our kd of guy.”</p><p class="paywall">But what McGr saw when he looked around at his approvg dience was this: a lot of old, whe fac. What followed was not que a ronatn. McGr, who rarely prepar not or speech for events like this, began by thankg Thurman, “the most ass-kickg woman Ameri.” Then he lowered the boom. He was a twenty-ne-year-old black man, he said, who got ved to such functns all the time, so you uld image how bored he was. He proceed to ramble, at nsirable length, and a tone, as one listener put , of “ant cynicism,” wh a recurrg theme: that the folks the room (“urageo”? <em>Please</em>) were a sorry lot.</p><p class="paywall">He told the guts that he’d lled Condoleezza Rice, the natnal-secury adviser, a mass murrer to her face; what had they ever done? (The Rice exchange occurred 2002, at the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards, where McGr was given the Chairman’s Award; Rice requted that he wre her to his strip.) He reunted a lunch meetg wh Fil Castro. (He had been ved to Cuba by the California ngrswoman Barbara Lee, who is one of the few policians McGr has praised “The Boondocks.”) He said that noble failure was not acceptable. But the last straw me when he “dropped the N-word,” as one amed observer relled. He said—bragged, even—that he’d voted for Nar 2000. At that pot, acrdg to Haton Fish, the host of the party, “ got teractive.”</p><p class="paywall">Eric Alterman, a lumnist for <em>The Natn</em>, was stg the back of the room, next to Joe Wilson, the Ambassador. He shouted out, “Thanks for Bh!” Exactly what happened next is unclear. Alterman rells that McGr rpond by grabbg his crotch and sayg, “Try the nuts.” Jack Newfield, the longtime <em>Village Voice</em> wrer, says that McGr simply dared Alterman to remove him om the podium. When asked about this cint later, McGr said, “I a’t no punk. I a’t gonna let someone shout and not go back at him.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Alterman walked out. “I turned to Joe and said, ‘I n’t listen to this crap anymore,’ ” he remembers. “I went out to the Metropolan Club lobby—’s a nice lobby—and I worked on my mancript.”</p><p class="paywall">Newfield joed the hecklg, as did Stephen Cohen, a historian and the hband of Katra vann Hvel. “It was like watchg LeRoi Jon try to M-M a guilty whe liberal the sixti,” Newfield says. “It was out of a time warp. Who is he to sult people who have been puttg their reers and liv on the le for equal rights sce before he was born?”</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">By the time McGr had fished, and a tipsy Joe Wilson took the microphone to liver his New Year’s Rolutns, perhaps half the guts had exced themselv to jo Alterman the lobby. A <em>Natn</em> ntributor timated that McGr had offend eighty per cent of the dience. “Some people still haven’t revered,” he said, soundg thrilled.</p><p class="paywall">“At a certa pot, I jt got the unfortable feelg that this was a bunch of people who were feelg a ltle too good about themselv,” McGr said afterward. “The are the big, rich whe leftists who are gog to rry the fight to Gee Bh, and the bt they n do is blame Nar?”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">He went on, lghg a ltle, “I was not the right gut for that event. I’ll be the first one to say that. It was one of those remrs that, yeah, I’m not this polil lear that people are lookg for.”</p><p class="paywall">As a talented young black man who is outspoken his polil nvictns, McGr has grown acctomed to ordately high expectatns. The Green Party lled him last year, askg if he might like to n for Print. He had to pot out that he wasn’t old enough. “I want to do stuff that has a moral center—stuff that I n be proud of,” he ntued. “But I’m not tryg to be <em>that guy</em>, the polil voice of young black Ameri, bee then you have to sort of be a rponsible grownup, for lack of a better word. And ’s like—you know, Flip Wilson said this, he said, ‘I rerve the right to be a nigger.’ And I absolutely do, at all tim.”</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Huey Freeman, the hero of “The Boondocks” and McGr’s supposed alter ego, has not cracked a se five years of synditn. From the day he and his ltle brother, Riley, moved out of Chigo’s South Si to live fortably wh their granddad the suburbs—the boondocks—Huey, a practicg member of the “church of self-righteons,” has been treatg rears of the funni page to an unhealthy dose of dignatn, paranoia, and hatred. He is perhaps ten years old, that agels rtoon way, wh an Ao, a high forehead, perpetually knted brows, and an unnatural faiary wh the precepts of socialist black natnalism. He has roughly equal ntempt for Dick Cheney, Cuba Goodg, Jr., and Santa Cls.</p><p class="paywall">“Sce when are lns of Amerins ready to wake up to the rantgs of an angry black kid?” Huey’s bt iend, Caar, a dreadlocked, droopy-eyed transplant om Brooklyn, once asked him, an early stallment of the strip. The joke was obv and boastful; by then “The Boondocks” was appearg more or ls daily some two hundred and thirty newspapers ( is now three hundred), cludg the Los Angel <em>Tim</em>, the Washgton <em>Post</em>, and the Chigo <em>Tribune</em>. More or ls daily bee edors tend to spend Huey and pany om their pag on ocsns when the tentns of the strip’s thor—to provi “a daily foot the ass of The Man”—were achieved a ltle too vividly. (A dozen edors had already expelled the Freeman fay for good; still others had reloted McGr to the op-ed page.)</p><p class="paywall">The Freeman tr—Huey, Riley (a wanna-be thug), and Granddad (a ntankero skeptic and rigned pragmatist)—reprent “three different facets of the sort of angry-black-man archetype,” acrdg to McGr. He recently published an anthology of the strip’s first few years, tled “A Right to Be Hostile.” More angry books are on the way. “Profs of Rage” is the workg tle of one, a text-only manifto fashned after the works of Michael Moore and Al Franken. “Huey’s Hate Book,” a planned ffee-table volume, is another.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Like the Freeman brothers, McGr was born on the South Si of Chigo, though he didn’t stay there long. The McGrs—Aaron, his parents, and an olr brother, Dedric, who is now a part-time polil rtoonist—shuffled around some before settlg, when Aaron was six, the middle-class suburb of Columbia, Maryland. (Aaron’s father works for the Natnal Transportatn Safety Board.) Columbia is some ways the spiratn for Woodcrt, the fictnal home of the “Boondocks” characters. It was a planned muny—envisned as a sort of tegratnist, post-civil-rights utopia—veloped by the Roe Company the mid-neteen-sixti, and featurg an official town “Tree of Life,” and streets and neighborhoods wh nam like Hobb’s Glen and Morng Walk and Elfstone Way. (Huey and Riley live on Timid Deer Lane, one block over om Bashful Beaver.)</p><p class="paywall">McGr’s was a fairly typil, well-adjted eighti childhood, and he had typil terts: “Star Wars,” Charlie Brown, kung fu. He went to a Ju school—“a very strict, very, very whe Ju school”—outsi Columbia om seventh through nth gra. “Those were the most opprsive years of my life,” he told me. (Huey and Riley, not cintally, attend J. Edgar Hoover Elementary.) They were also the years which he was exposed to his greatt, and perhaps most surprisg, edic fluence. “When I was seventh gra, I disvered Monty Python,” he said. “That sh still kills me. I try to get my iends to watch that and they jt n’t get . ‘No, no, no, ’s funny—the lumberjack!’ ‘Life of Brian’ is, to me, the most brilliant piece of satire ever—’s jt brilliant. He’s tryg to wre ‘Romans go home’ Lat and he n’t do the Lat right.” McGr shook his head. “A lot of black people a’t up on Monty Python like they should be.”</p><p class="paywall">In tenth gra, he transferred to public school and began, for the first time, really, to hang out wh other black people. He listened to a lot of hip-hop mic. It was the era of polilly nsc rap: Public Enemy, KRS-One (Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone), X-Clan. “All that sort of radil, pro-black-natnalist type of mic— was jt a fad, but at fifteen and sixteen you’re very imprsnable,” he told me. “It was one of the few tim, I thk, black history when as a young person you uld be ol and tellectual at the same time.” (McGr, who is proud to ll himself a nerd, no longer thks of himself as ol. “Most ol niggas I know are broke,” he said.)</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><asi class="PersistentAsiWrapper-VGrR daRVRt persistent-asi" style="posn:absolute;top:to;height:to" data-ttid="PersistentAsiWrapper"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="bu0btc"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="lgya5b"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa EOneK body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The first person ever to publish “The Boondocks” was the disgraced New York <em>Tim</em> fabulist Jayson Blair, who was then edg <em>The Diamondback</em>, the mp paper at the Universy of Maryland, where McGr majored Ain-Amerin studi. “We weren’t iends, but he seemed like the brother who had figured out the system,” McGr rells of Blair. “It was like, ‘You don’t seem one hundred per cent down, but you’re fely not a Tom. Somehow you’re makg work.’ ” That was the end of 1996; ls than two years later, havg found an dience among the largely whe Maryland rearship, McGr signed a al wh the Universal Prs Syndite, the publisher of Garry T’s “Doonbury,” and April of 1999 “The Boondocks” began appearg a hundred and sixty papers—one of the biggt lnch the history of ics.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Even after the Metropolan Club melee, McGr has ntued to receive and accept vatns to liver lectur—at banquets, on llege mp, rporate boardrooms. The Sony Mic Group flew him to New York Febary for one such talk, and he agreed to meet me for dner afterward. He arrived at the rtrant, a small, untry-style spot near Gramercy Park, wearg a Jam Brown T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. He is not, person, imposg or strikg or noticeably angry—not the kd of guy you’d expect to be challengg anyone to a fight. He is short, wh soft featur, a slight goatee, and the begngs of an Ao. Unlike Huey, he s—sheepishly and often.</p><p class="paywall">“Somebody has to sort of translate the dms for whe folks, and ocsnally they ll me to try to do ,” McGr explaed. It was a good htle, the lecture circu, he said. In the urse of three hours—McGr tends to answer each qutn wh a fifteen-mute monologue—he returned repeatedly to this faiar trope of cynil entreprenrialism. People like Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly, he said, were htlers. “It’s like, ‘The more ridiculo sh I say that’s hurtful and hateful and racist, the more you stupid rednecks will buy books,’ ” he said, a ep, slightly nasal barone. “I don’t even get mad at them, ’e I get what is. I’m the same game.”</p><p class="paywall">Larry Elr, an Ain-Amerin rad host and a equent McGr cric, was a htler, too: “He cid to be the black guy that mak money by sayg the thgs that whe people want black people to say.” (Elr, a recent op-ed lumn, suggted that an award for the “Dumbt, Most Vulgar, Most Offensive Thgs Uttered by Black Public Figur” be dubbed the McGr.)</p><p class="paywall">“I’m always on the fence: do I want to be one of those guys?” McGr said. “I love Michael Moore”—Moore wrote the foreword to “A Right to Be Hostile,” praisg McGr’s “bodac w”—“and I see what he do. He’s got the game down, and that’s not a bad thg. People act like you n’t be a left-wger and be rich at the same time, like that’s some type of hypocrisy. It’s not hypocrisy. You gotta get paid. This isn’t the days of the civil-rights era, where you n change the world wh a picket sign. You gotta get your money up.”</p><p class="paywall">McGr’s polics are to the left of Dennis Kucich, but he retas an old man’s nservative, almost reactnary stct, which, bed wh the mo’-money shtick, giv “The Boondocks” a healthy ic balance. On the page, of urse, he is able to separate the petg strands to distct characters, each of whom off as both likable and lghable. The tensn is harr to rencile real life, when he is by turns ialistic and ad ser (Huey), immature and reee (Riley), and gmpy and tired (Granddad).</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">He told me that we have a state-n media Ameri, and then, tchg himself, add, “I know what this sounds like: nspiracy theory. But you know what? A nspiracy is somethg hidn. This sh is out the open. People are jt too dumb to see .” Huey was ntrol ( the strip, he publish his own broadsheet, <em>The Free Huey World Report</em>), argug, wh nvictn, that ntemporary journalism is “a goddam sham.”</p><p class="paywall">Another mute, though, he channelled Riley—his shoulrs were slumped, and he bowed his head a ltle forward, avoidg eye ntact—and said that when he n help he prefers not to read the newspaper. “I’m not the guy that wants to spend my life beg some kd of closet tellectual,” he said. “I want to play ‘Vice Cy.’ I jt want to drive around and shoot nocent people. I’m all about vio gam.”</p><p class="paywall">Addrsg the rampant mercialism ntemporary rap mic, he slipped effortlsly to Granddad mo. “I’ve never unrstood all the obssn over diamonds and jewelry and signer cloth—that jt seems <em>female</em> to me,” he nearly groaned.</p><p class="paywall">McGr didn’t leave himself a lot of time to eat. He poted at a nearby table and said, “If that was Bill Watterson”—the thor of “Calv and Hobb”—“neher one of would know . Bill Watterson was two thoand papers. A ln more people have read ‘Calv and Hobb’ than will ever read ‘The Boondocks.’ But Bill Watterson cid he didn’t want to be a personaly.”</p><p class="paywall">Aaron McGr is, whout qutn, a personaly. While we waed for the check, he leaned back and rattled off what amounted to a left-wg standup-edy route, touchg on the major and mor issu of the day, his soft-spoken manner givg way to a performer’s bravado.</p><p class="paywall">“You make a movie about a senile Republin Print,” he said, referrg to the ma-for-TV “The Reagans,” “and they gonna answer back by tryg to put his face on the fuckg dime. That’s how gangsta they are.”</p><p class="paywall">Next me the Super Bowl, and the flap over Ja Jackson’s exposed breast. “We got—how many?—five hundred ad Iraq, and several thoand more wound, and they worried about a tty. A tty! What kd of sorry-ass natn is this?”</p><p class="paywall">As we left the rtrant, a small elrly whe woman seated a few tabl away got up and approached McGr. She said she was om New Zealand. “I like everythg you’ve been sayg,” she said. “I agree wh you.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">“That’s a good New Zealanr,” he said as he phed open the door.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Several years ago “The Boondocks,” an earnt black lawyer named Tom DuBois (he’s married to a whe woman) wonred aloud, “Is there anyplace or anythg that has been left unsrred by the cynics and the purveyors of bterns, anger and spair? Do there exist, anywhere, an unadulterated land of childhood fantasy and imagatn? Is there no nocence left the world?” Huey Freeman rpond, wh his tramark swl, “What about the funni?”</p><p class="paywall">McGr don’t read the funni, and he don’t like the people who draw them. Growg up, he was a “Peanuts” fan, like everyone else, and he unts “Doonbury” and “Bloom County,” featurg Op, the inic polil pengu, as fluenc. But mostly he se the ics page, wh all s benign Dennis the Menac and Heathcliffs and Blondi, as the doma of “seventy-year-old whe men,” some of whom—like Bil Keane, the thor of the vaguely Christian “Fay Circ,” and Mort Walker, of “Beetle Bailey”—he eely adms to not rpectg.</p><p class="paywall">“I don’t go to the rtoonist nventns,” McGr said. “I went once, to the Rben Awards”—the Osrs of rtoong—“and I didn’t feel very wele. I felt a palpable sense of rentment. Bil Keane was the m.c., and he opened dog more than one joke that was clearly aimed at me. It was raw—jt some fucked-up sh. O.K., and yet, if I get out of my chair right now and beat the sh out of you, then <em>I’m</em> the bad guy? You’re stg here, clearly doggg me—not by name, but how many black rtoonists are workg? He told some joke about diversy ics. Like ‘There’s a lot of diversy ics the days. They don’t have to be funny, they jt have to be diverse.’ There were a uple of shots at me where I was like, ‘Motherfucker, you don’t <em>know</em> me. We’re not ol.’ ”</p><p class="paywall">McGr believ that Huey, who gets his name om the Black Panther Huey Newton, is “ultimately the blackt character ever to be popular mastream media, other than maybe Chuck D and Flavor Flav,” foundg members of Public Enemy. Certaly, the ics dtry—“an dtry wh no soul,” McGr says—he do not have stiff petn.</p><p class="paywall">Colored fac were not unmon the early ics—vville sendups of immigrant life that helped fuel the turn-of-the-century newspaper wars—but they were, as a le, severe ritur. (R. F. Outult, the creator of the famo “Yellow Kid,” picted poor blacks livg a place lled Possumville.) It wasn’t until 1965, wh Morrie Turner’s “Wee Pals,” that the mastream prs rried a syndited rtoon strip by a black man, wh recurrg—and rpectably human—black characters. And took the ath of Mart Luther Kg, Jr., 1968, to spark real natnal distributn for the strip. That same year, Charl Schulz gave Charlie Brown a black iend, Frankl, and Bmsic Brandon, Jr., started “Luther,” which was named after Dr. Kg. “Luther” was set the ghetto, and Brandon said that his tentn was to “tell like is.” In the strip, which ran until 1986, Brandon troduced characters wh nam like Oreo and Hardre, but he alt only spargly wh race relatns.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="t8wj59"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa EOneK body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">By the late neti, when McGr was startg out, there were still jt two wily read ic strips beg drawn by blacks: “Curtis,” by Ray Billgsley, and “Jump Start,” a cidly bourgeois feature, by Robb Armstrong. “The Boondocks,” wh s dreadlocks and <em>manga</em> fluenc, <em>looked</em> immediately different om the and everythg else the newspaper. Today, thanks no small part to McGr’s accelerated succs, the typil ics page offers at least a most gree of diversy. There is a strip lled “La Curacha,” wh mostly Lato characters, which began 2001 and ns about fifty papers. And there are more new black-themed strips enjoyg mor distributn, like “Candorville” and “Hoebroken.”</p><p class="paywall">McGr’s fluence this rpect has often been acknowledged, and ocsnally nmned. At the Image Awards ceremony, he was ced for his “dignified reprentatn of people of lor,” but recent years the signature gag of his strip has probably been his annual “Most Embarrassg Black People” awards. (LL Cool J, Jse Jackson, Whney Hoton: few pe his srn.) Larry Elr is not alone among black voic cryg the negativy of “The Boondocks.” Robert Johnson, the chief executive of BET (that’s Black Exploatn Televisn, or Butts Every Time, acrdg to Huey), has said that his employe do “more one day to serve the tert of Ain-Amerins than this young man has done his entire life.” As for his imators the ics, McGr, ever nontatnal and protective of his turf, do not fd their emulatn flatterg. “I look at everythg om a hip-hop perspective,” he says. “My pot of view on that is very obv: get off my dick, leave my sh alone.”</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">A few days after the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Tra Center, McGr lled the Universal Prs Syndite and asked what T planned on dog wh “Doonbury.” “They said, ‘Garry’s not touchg ,’ ” he told me. “It was like a make-or-break moment, and I jt cid this is why I got to rtoong. I’m not gog to waste talkg about Puffy.” (Puffy, or Puff Daddy, has been a equent target of McGr’s ridicule, primarily for his role steerg hip-hop away om tellectual engagement and toward preeng self-display.)</p><p class="paywall">Later, he went out for lunch wh his iends Regald Hudl, the film director, and Chris Rock, the edian. Hudl asked Rock whether, if he still had his own TV show, he would be mg the tragic events for material. “He was like, ‘Oh, yeah!’ ” Hudl told me. “He right there on the spot did fifteen mut on 9/11 that was geni, and jt to hear done as impecbly as Chris did was spirg to all of . And I thk that really eed Aaron’s md up. He did some of his greatt work followg that.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Before September 11th, McGr had been stgglg mightily unr the burn of non-stop adl—“My greatt weakns, and, sadly, everybody knows , is my latens”—to the pot where his health was failg. (“Ever see a seven-day-a-week rtoonist?” Berkeley Breathed, the creator of “Bloom County,” once said. “They all look like Keh Richards at 5 <em class="small">a.m.</em>”) In 2000, shortly after movg out of his parents’ basement to an apartment Los Angel, he had been hospalized wh strs-related symptoms. He had been thkg serly about givg up the strip altogether.</p><p class="paywall">In “The Boondocks,” post-9/11, Huey was quick to announce that he planned to “stay cynil.” He began llg the F.B.I. to suggt nam of terrorist fanciers and war crimals worthy of prosecutn: Ronald Reagan, Gee W. Bh, Henry Kissger. John Ashcroft appeared on televisn to expla his new “Turban Surveillance Act,” and the prospect of a ngrsnal “anti-evil” bill, was suggted, would force Vice-Print Cheney to hidg once aga. The <em>Daily News</em> banned “The Boondocks” for several weeks. At one pot, the middle of October, McGr fally relented and put a muzzle on Huey. Adaptg an ia om Rock’s lunch-table improvisatn, he replaced “The Boondocks” for a week wh a new, fx-jgoistic strip, “The Adventur of Flagee and Ribbon.” (Said the ribbon to the flag, “Hey, Flagee, there’s a lot of evil out there.” Replied the flag, “That’s right, Ribbon. Good thg Ameri kicks a lot of *@#!”)</p><p class="paywall">McGr’s adle troubl abated. “The strips were wrg themselv,” he said. Their primary foc had shifted, as he put , om “life and love and teachers and lawnmowers to Bh and Bh and, well, Bh.”</p><p class="paywall">T, who, before long, did rporate September 11th to “Doonbury,” admir McGr, but he said that such a sgulary of purpose “always ns the danger of beg ted.” He went on, “When I was startg out, my edor once said, ‘You n wre about Vietnam this week, but you damn well better wre about football next week.’ His pot was that you have to take your knee off the rear’s wdpipe om time to time.”</p><p class="paywall">For McGr, though, noisy fiance is an end self. “I was very disappoted that I didn’t get the Pulzer that year,” he said. “That sounds like some really egotistil sh to say”—among funni-page artists, only T and Breathed have ever won —“but I really felt like that was me by a long shot. The sh that I was able to get away wh after September 11th was really astoundg.”</p><p class="paywall">Last October, McGr granted Condoleezza Rice’s wish and put her the strip. In the Monday stallment of a weeklong seri, Caar announced that he had a “simple and easy plan to save the world.” On Tuday, he elaborated: “Maybe if there was a man the world who Condoleezza tly loved, she wouldn’t be so hell-bent to stroy .” Huey agreed. “Condoleezza’s jt lonely and bter,” he said. And so on. The boys began posg personal ads: “Female Darth Var type seeks lovg mate to torture”; “High-rankg ernment employee wh sturdy build seeks sgle black man for timate relatnship. Mt enjoy football, Chop, and rpet bombg.” Huey even anticipated his crics—this is a favore vice of McGr’s—by observg, “What I really like about this ia is that isn’t the least b sexist or chvistic.”</p><p class="paywall">Some rears acced McGr of effectively llg Rice a lbian (both McGr and Greg Melv, his edor, sist that this never crossed their mds), while others plaed that the joke was ed unacceptably sexist and chvistic. The Washgton <em>Post</em>’<em>s</em> executive edor, Leonard Downie, Jr., thought so, and he whheld the entire week’s worth of “Boondocks”—the longt such spensn the paper’s history. (The <em>Post</em>’<em>s</em> ombudsman, Michael Getler, later sid wh McGr, wrg that he “found the sequence of strips wh the bounds of allowable satire.”)</p><p class="paywall">McGr, te to form, was unchastened. A month later, Huey and Caar were <em>still</em> tryg to fd Rice a date, and the urse of their ntued plottg they’d managed to ll Ann Coulter a man and to suggt that Larry Elr is gay.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-6 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Polilly charged ics are not the doma solely of the left (“Mallard Fillmore,” for stance, stars a Republin duck), and some rpects McGr’s clost patrt subversn is his oppose: Johnny Hart, the seventy-three-year-old whe man behd “B.C.” Hart beme a born-aga Christian the late neteen-eighti, and he has sce been acced of evangelizg his ic—sometim at the expense of other religns. Most notably, last November, durg the Mlim holy month of Ramadan, Hart drew a “B.C.” strip which a veman—the feature’s ma character—is seen enterg an outhoe and heard exclaimg, om si, “Is jt me, or do stk here?” The word “<em class="small">slam</em>,” arranged a vertil le, or an I formatn, as some rears observed, occupied the space between two panels. Crcent moons—symbols of Islam—appeared throughout. Was Hart sayg that an entire world relign stks? Many Mlim rears thought so. Hart ni . “It would be ntradictory to my own fah as a Christian to sult other people’s beliefs,” he said. On the other hand, given the bewilrg nature of the rtoon, is hard to image what else he uld have meant.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="3k9pph"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="nblcu"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa EOneK body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">“So many strips are so pletely unfunny that when you read a ic strip and don’t make you lgh, and you don’t even see where the joke is supposed to be, ’s not surprisg,” McGr told me. “Bee that’s more the norm than the exceptn: ‘Uh, I don’t get .’ ” This, he suggted, n serve as a ver for barbed edorializg—and rtoonists know . “Those of who do polilly oriented ic strips light those moments when we n sneak one past the gatekeeper,” McGr ntued. “Hart’s workg hard and beg clever to put across, I thk, a very hateful pot. I’m often acced of the same thg. To me, as long as ’s fair, as long as one si is not more rtricted than the other, then let him say what he wants to say—and I’m not sayg he don’t serve to get his ass beaten. I’m always sort of on the lookout for someone who’s gog to step to me over what <em>I</em> say.”</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">For the past few years, McGr has been tryg to adapt “The Boondocks” for the screen. Last July, Sony bought the rights to produce both an animated televisn seri and a feature film based on the strip, and Fox signed on to distribute the TV show as a prime-time vehicle. McGr’s Hollywood reer entails makg appearanc at events—Hugh Hefner’s birthday bash, Puff Daddy’s MTV Movie Awards party—where he is apt to n to the kds of people who might wish to step to him over what he says. “It’s terribly awkward, pecially when they’re nice,” McGr told me. Will Smh was one such example. “I had molished Will, jt molished ‘Ali,’ and that movie he did wh Matt Damon—I lled ‘Drivg Matt Damon.’ And Will is one of, like, seven black men that n get a movie green-l Hollywood that sts over twenty ln dollars. It’s like, ‘Oh, I burned <em>that</em> bridge.’ ”</p><p class="paywall">To help McGr al wh the strs that acpany entertament-dtry succs, he ocsnally works wh a personal traer—part martial-arts expert and part medatn gu—named Rashon Kahn. Kahn, who has also worked wh the edians Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Jamie Foxx, says that his goal wh McGr is “to help him stay ground wh his journey.” This has volved, at tim, showg up at McGr’s home to ok for him. (“I always remend to everyone, ‘Eat your vegetabl, your salads, your lean meats,’ ” Kahn says.)</p><p class="paywall">Amid all this, the ic strip has suffered. For one thg, McGr don’t draw “The Boondocks” anymore. He passed the sketchg and kg duti to a Boston-based artist, Jennifer Seng, around the time of the Condoleezza Rice flap, last fall. “If somethg had to give, was gog to be the art,” he told me. “I thk I’m a better wrer than artist.” Maybe so, but his wrg attentn do not seem as focsed on the strip, eher.</p><p class="paywall">More and more, “The Boondocks,” which once stood out for s nsy, seems spare: a lot of whe space; ltle, if any, visual progrsn om panel to panel. McGr often giv Huey or Granddad— don’t really matter who—watchg televisn, alone. The text directly om the TV, ually the form of a polil joke (“Bh and Bh and, well, Bh”), and the character’s reactn, if there is one at all, is immaterial. The strip has bee an almost cintal vehicle for one-lers.</p><p class="paywall">“ ‘The Boondocks’ is brand-new, relatively speakg, and he’s already stripped away the backgrounds,” Garry T told me. “And he was g cut-and-paste imag <em>before</em> he hand off the art. And he also stopped tellg stori, for the most part, which I thought was a py.”</p><p class="paywall">“Sometim he’s stuck on a adle and we try to jam out a bunch of strips together,” Reggie Hudl told me. “My md naturally go to a narrative. And he go, ‘No, no, no, jt need a punch le.’ I once said Aaron’s exhstn om dog sentially a edy haiku every day.”</p><p class="paywall">McGr says that he suffers om “ic clstrophobia.” He has e to hate the nf of the strip as a medium, and this realizatn has ma him gravate toward screenwrg stead. “You mean I got all this space?” he said. “Dialogue? It’s like a prisoner gettg to n outsi and do rtwheels.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-7 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Hudl, who directed the black edi “Hoe Party” and “Boomerang,” is McGr’s entrée to the Hollywood htle, and his partner adaptg “The Boondocks” for animatn, and other projects. The two met back when Aaron was llege, and they had “one of those eakish, separated-at-birth moments,” Hudl said. (Hudl, who is forty-two, also grew up worshippg Monty Python.) He se “The Boondocks” as belongg to a multimedia tradn, extendg om mic—the old-school hip-hop of McGr’s high-school years, say—to the page and the screen, occupyg what he lls the “space for a kd of playful black telligentsia.”</p><p class="paywall">Hudl and McGr have wrten a uple of scripts and a graphic novel together. The book, lled “Birth of a Natn,” reimag the 2000 Florida electn fias East St. Louis, Illois, and has the cy secedg om the unn to form s own untry, Blackland. (In Blackland, Denzel Washgton is on the twenty-dollar bill.) It will be published this summer.</p><p class="paywall">Most of the time, though, they work on the pilot for Fox. It’s been twenty years sce “Fat Albert,” the last black animated seri on a major work, went off the air, so the prospect of “The Boondocks” gog to prime time is signifint. Largely by necsy, the show is meant to be more character-driven than the current rnatn of the strip, a reversn to the early perd of s synditn—the days of life and love and teachers and lawnmowers. Animatn mands a ne-month lead time, which preclus the kd of topily that McGr has e to rely on.</p><p class="paywall">If there are two mols guidg the show’s velopment, they are probably “The Simpsons,” the bean of virtually all televised satire and animatn, and, paradoxilly, “All the Fay,” the seventi s starrg Carroll O’Connor as the bigoted Everyman Archie Bunker. McGr has equently been told by stud executiv that they’re lookg to re-create “All the Fay”—to be jt ntroversial enough to draw attentn, that is, whout gettg kicked off the air, by creatg another Archie Bunker type, a “character who jt spouts off ignorance.” He fds this le of reasong spic. “As I unrstand , the creators and the works origally thought, O.K., well, this show’s gog to be great, ’e everybody’s gog to get the joke that Archie’s a lovable idt, and people are gog to look at as a satire of racism,” he said. “They found out that the reason people loved the show is bee they agreed wh Archie Bunker.”</p><p class="paywall">The strategy for the “The Boondocks” revolv, part, around nontg this fact head on and—what else?—unrmg . Among the new characters that McGr and Hudl plan to troduce is a neighborhood handyman lled Uncle Ruck—“jt the worst, most bter, angrit motherfucker you uld image,” as McGr se him—who will serve as the town b driver, the school janor, the lol garner, the babyster, the massage therapist. “Everywhere you look, he’s there,” McGr said, almost giddily. “This guy jt lov all the ltle whe children the neighborhood”—Uncle Ruck is black—“and he’s basilly straight out of the eighteenth century. I mean, he is a slave.” Uncle Ruck brgs a new, fully realized archetype to the varieti of haters McGr’s universe; he is “the world’s most self-hatg black man.”</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">McGr liv a penthoe apartment on a leafy si street at the edge of Beverly Hills, wh a balny overlookg the Four Seasons Hotel. I vised him there shortly before he flew to Seoul to oversee the animatn procs for the “Boondocks” pilot, which is schled to be livered to Fox later this month. (Even if succeeds, the show will likely not air until next year.) He had e down wh bronchis while New York for the Sony lecture, and the batn of his health and the logistics surroundg his impendg Asia trip (“The du only owns, like, two sweaters,” McGr’s assistant, Shawn Soloff, told me) meant that he was even farther behd than ual on his adl.</p><p class="paywall">The dér of the apartment was an immediate remr that McGr is not an enthiastic grownup. He keeps a Yoda statue one rner, among some potted plants; PlayStatn ss on the floor; and there’s a Bce Lee poster on the wall. Elsewhere there are light sabr, a pair of Incredible Hulk fists, and a figure of Lucy om “Peanuts.” When I arrived, he was by playg executive producer a seri of overlappg nference lls—cell phone one hand, home phone the other—and watchg TV wh the volume turned down, ostensibly trollg for ias for the strip. (ABC Fay was on, showg a ren of the late-eighti s “Full Hoe.”)</p><p class="paywall">At issue was a planned stg ssn for the show which McGr worried was beg done on the cheap. “What do Reggie thk? . . . Shawn, n you get Phil on the le? . . . Four days is not enough time. We were told a week. . . . It’s gettg to the pot where you try to cut sts so much that ’s not worth dog at all.” Already, RZA, of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ja Rule, and the actrs-sger Brandy had dned to do the voic. (Female characters are notably rare “The Boondocks,” but adult women, as is the norm animatn, will play the young boys.)</p><p class="paywall">He began flippg the channels while he was on hold, and land on BET. The rapper 50 Cent appeared on the screen— was a Top Ten vio untdown—and he was shirtls, wh lots of jewelry around his neck, smokg a blunt. “Black people are dog bad thgs,” McGr-as-Granddad muttered. “They dog real bad.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-8 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Jen, the “Boondocks” artist, lled om Boston, wonrg what she should draw for the Sunday strip, whose all-or-nothg adle was the followg morng. (Most Sunday edns are expected a month before publitn; this stance, the three-week mark was approachg.) He told her that he was tapped out, no ias. “Worse to worst,” he said, “I’ll ll the syndite tomorrow and throw the towel on this one, tell them a’t happeng.” In the meantime, he suggted that she jt draw Huey watchg TV. “But try to do a ltle different, somehow, om all the other tim,” he said.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="k79hqg"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa EOneK body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">One of McGr’s iends joed him, and he ntued to flip the channels, lookg for spiratn. They started watchg “The Apprentice,” Donald Tmp’s realy show, which, at the end of each episo, Tmp looks one nttant the eye and says, “You’re fired.” Fally, an ia me to McGr.</p><p class="paywall">“For several days, I’ve been lookg for the joke all of the exportg jobs overseas,” McGr said the next day. “So, at the end of the show, jt h me: if they really want to teach the kids a lson, they’ll fire all of them and move the realy show to Mexi. And that end up beg the joke. Remember I told Jen jt to draw one panel of Huey watchg televisn? That’s a joke I n sort of f to that one panel. There’s a narratn box at the top: ‘A very special episo of NBC’s “The Apprentice.” ’ And then, om the televisn, you hear, ‘We figured out ’s more st-efficient to do the show om Mexi, so you’re all fired.’ So that saved the day, and that’s how go. That’s how often works.”</p><p class="paywall">There is, at first, somethg disappotg this visn of Ameri’s most radil rtoonist at work: slouched on the sofa, armed wh a remote and TiVo, not a pencil or a drawg board—or even a snarl— sight. McGr is not yet thirty, and already he is jad, ntent to settle for the kd of perfectly passable work he so often eviscerat others for. Or maybe this is the pot: he is not yet thirty. He has aspiratns to raise hell for a whole new dience, a whole different way, and he is aaid of blowg the opportuny on a stupid youthful mistake. Wh that md, he has cid to lay off Condoleezza Rice—seemgly a prime target the days, the wake of Richard Clarke’s allegatns—for the near future. “Havg that show on the air jt opens up a whole new realm terms of power and fluence,” he said. “I want to say the thgs no one else n say, but ’s a tightrope walk. Up till now has always paid off for me. I’m wag for the moment when will <em>not</em> pay off.”</p><p class="paywall">Last week, “Doonbury” took on Rice, even gog so far as to acce her of havg “ltle flecks of blood” on her hands. “The Boondocks,” meanwhile, was jt gettg around to discsg “The Passn.”</p><p class="paywall">That last night L.A., before flyg off to Korea, McGr sound both weary and cksure. “I wanted to be a rtoonist, and like six months after that I got signed, and I’m here,” he said. “And ten years om now I’ll be, like, gettg an Amy Award. This is not the begng and end of my life.”</p><p class="paywall">There is an old “Boondocks” strip which Huey and Caar are shown discsg the logo sign for their tend revolutn. 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