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Comic relieved

Good for Earl Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise magazine, for pulling the plug on tasteless (and apparently unfunny) comic Eddie Griffin.

Richard Prince of the Maynard Institute reports.

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eric said:

Just curious, Allen... you ever read "Boondocks," or watch the cartoon?

Allen Johnson said:

Yes, it was an excellent strip ... edgy and provocative, and most of all, funny. But I understand it's been discontinued.
The artist, Aaron McGruder, wanted to take time off, as I recall.

eric said:

As I understand it, McGruder (sp?) took time off to create the cartoon series for Adult Swim. I bought the DVD of the first season over the past weekend. If you haven't seen it, I think you'd find it pretty stimulating...

Allen Johnson said:

I'll need to check it out. By the way, McGruder skewered Bob Johnson of Black Entertainment Television in a series of cartoons a few years ago.
He really got under Johnson's skin with his critique of BET's low-brow content, which I thought was dead-on.

eric said:

In that case, I think you'll enjoy the cartoon episode where Huey spends a week watching "Black TV" in a parody of "Super Size Me." {;-)

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