Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder is an American writer, producer, and cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip about two young African-American brothers, Hueyand his younger brother and wannabe gangsta, Riley, from inner-city Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb, as well as being the creator, executive producer, and head writer of The Boondocks animated TV series based on his strip...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth29 May 1974
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
We wrote the script, we did a six-minute presentation, and then it died. Fox wanted a sitcom with an 'A story' and a 'B story,' and there were just very rigid creative rules that work on some shows and don't work on others.
Our show is not 'Family Guy,' ... The element of race changes everything.
they're not really thrilled about it, but I keep trying to push them.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
I figure it will either be a big hit or a massive flop; there is no room for in between,
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
I've never been able to predict what people are going to get mad at. I've tried and I've always been surprised.
You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.
This isn't the n---a show. N---a, n---a, n---a, n---a, n---a. I just wish we would expand the dialogue and evolve past the same conversation that we've had over the past 30 years about race in our country. & I just hope to expand the dialogue and hope the show will challenge people to think about things they wouldn't normally think about, or think about it in a very different way.
Every well needs occasional refreshing. I hope that this fall you will agree that the time away from the demands of deadlines has served the strip, your readers and me.
To me, being in the top 10 for African-American audiences is not justification to keep a show on the air. I would not be shedding any tears for the loss of those shows.
Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.