The Boondocks

The Boondocks is a comic strip originally written and drawn by Aaron McGruder. It started as a comic in the student newspaper at the University of Maryland; The comic strip became syndicated in 1999.

The strip depicts Huey Freeman and his younger brother Riley, two African-American children who have been moved out of Chicago by their grandfather to live with him in a predominantly white suburb. Huey is a devotee of black radical ideas of the past few decades, whereas Riley is enamored of hip-hop culture and the "thug" lifestyle; their grandfather is a firm disciplinarian who is offended by their values and ideas.

In the fall of 2003, McGruder passed art duties on to Boston-based artist