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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 247
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 01:12 pm: | 
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An anthology of McGruder's Boondocks comic strips. Get this one. I really dig it! Not yer mamma and yer daddy's comic strips
Also a shame that the angriest most political black man in America is a cartoonist.
Stanley Crouch and Clarence Page eat my shorts! |
Whistlingwoman
Newbie Poster
Username: Whistlingwoman
Post Number: 16
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 02:41 pm: |
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Chris---
Check out the profile of McGruder in the humor issue of the New Yorker. Interesting. I believe it was on the stands about a month ago. He uses a great quote by Dick Gregory.
WhsitlingWoman |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 368
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 03:00 pm: |
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ChrisHayden: for boondocks comic strips as well as conscious hiphop and neosoul music check:
www.okayplayer.com |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 217
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 03:09 pm: |
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McGruder is a boldly insightful artist and cultural observer. Sometimes, though I often wish he would exchange some of his fiery combativeness with subtlety and wit.
Crouch (Who’s actually more ‘angry’ at Blacks than he is at Whites.) and Page (Who is as tepid as day ol’ bath water.) are too comfortable, affluent and tired to get ‘angry’ enuff for it to really matter. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 458
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 05:01 pm: |
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Cartoonist have a long history of being some of the most influential voices in America's political arena. McGruder has found his niche and his daily quick fix reaches a lot of people who are not inclined to read the editorial pages of a newspaper. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 459
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 05:35 pm: |
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Yukio, is McGruder considered hip-hop? He seems really preppie to me. So does Tavis Smiley. (Guess that's why I find them okay.)LOL |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 460
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 05:39 pm: |
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I find Stanley Crouch to be an independent thinker. He's hard to categorize which makes him an interesting person. |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 371
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 07:51 pm: |
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yes...McGruder is definitely hip hop...but Cynique, hip hop is so much... |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 463
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:26 pm: |
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And so over-rated. |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 374
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 10:35 am: |
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perhaps, perhaps....here is where there is the generational gap...lol! |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 466
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 01:40 pm: |
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Yes, Yukio, I just realized something. How stupid can I have been? Helloooo! No wonder I regard Hip-Hop as trivial. I am Old School! |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 376
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 03:18 pm: |
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Stupid is never a word i would use to characterize you, Cynique. |
Reppskearn
Newbie Poster
Username: Reppskearn
Post Number: 3
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 11:23 pm: |
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I'm glad to see a post about this great collection of McGruder's work! I posted a my reaction to it back in July shortly after it was released, but I guess no one had read it then. I loved every minute of it. I can't wait until he releases another collection. REK |
Cousinlymon
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Username: Cousinlymon
Post Number: 1
Registered: 06-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 05:18 pm: |
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I have to offer a dissent -- McGruder may be talented but that shouldn't excuse his offensiveness. For example, the series of strips where Condi Rice is bombing Iraq out of sexual frustration was as revolting as anything I can recall in a mainstream strip. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 580
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 05:36 pm: |
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Revolting??? Sounds like a pretty funny concept to me. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 328
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 10:49 am: |
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I too enjoy McGruder's skits. But I would assert that some of his Condelessa rants seem to border on (an albeit humorous form of) mysogyny. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 584
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 12:01 pm: |
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Condoleeza has established herself as a "my-way-or-the-highway" hawk, and - all is fair in love and war. |
Cousinlymon
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Username: Cousinlymon
Post Number: 2
Registered: 06-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 12:42 pm: |
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Well, if the rule is sexism/racism/bigotry/etc. is ok as long as it's used in attacking someone who is an established "my way or the highway" type, fine, but I have a feeling he'd be the first one complaining if the partisan tables were turned. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 589
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 01:16 pm: |
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Yes, he would. McGruder's Condaleeza cartoons are actually a partisan form of complaining about the war Republican conservatives started in Iraq. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 334
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 01:58 pm: |
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Well, and maybe I am blinded by this latent Russian love-slave 'jones' that I have for Condelessa, I just find McGruder's skits that feature Rice to be especially demeaning. All of his skits are wonderfully critical of the Bush Administration. But those that feature Condelessa are beyond polemical, they seem downright personal.
When I see his works that feature her, I can't help feeling as though I am watching a brothah (McGruder) try to exact revenge upon a sistah (Rice) who's dumped him for a White guy (Bush). |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 591
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 02:18 pm: |
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You may have something there, Abm. Many brothers who passionately oppose the Republican administration are disappointed that an intelligent articulate black woman would, for dubious reasons, volunteer to play hand-maiden to a dumb white massa. They covet the type of loyalty she reserves for Bush. But,Condoleeza wants to play with the big boys and if she can't stand the heat, she should get out of the kitchen. Just because she's a woman doesn't exempt her from the poison pens of cartoonists. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 337
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 04:12 pm: |
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I agree Condi shouldn't be exempt from political derision. And you know I think she should have been tossed out on her keyster on 9/12/01. But I don't think I have ever witnessed cartoon satire that is as debasing as of ANY political figure as that of McGruder's anti-Condi material. Franky, he often straddles the edge of calling Condi Bush's Black 'ho'. |
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