I finished the boondocks and really want to see how different he comic was, I heard there was characters that were changed and removed.

Okay, so this post is something I found while I was browsing on the internet last night at 2 a.m. in the morning, because I do that sometimes. It's a blog post by blogger, Ricky Balboa talking about the backstory behind the Boondocks, which many of us likely know, and features four comic strips that was featured in the Source magazine back in 1998. As you know, the Boondocks comics actually started back in 1996, but had it's official national release in 1999. So, finally being able to find a Boondocks comic that came out during the time Bill Clinton was still president and not George Bush, really gets me excited. It's a shame that most of the other comic strips from 1996 to 1998 are lost, but at least we have this. Shout out to Ricky Balboa for salvaging these! Enjoy:https://rickybalboa.wordpress.com/category/magazines/the-source/the-boondocks/

Also, if anyone was attending Maryland University, or knows someone who attended Maryland University during 1996 to 1998, ask them if they have a copy of the Diamondback to check if the 1996 Boondocks comics are featured in there. We never saw Hiro Otomo or some character named Isis/Rose (some girl I found about last night) but they're always mentioned in these blog posts like the one here:https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2014/05/27/revisiting-the-boondocks-part-one-the-strips/ And you all have seen Hiro featured in the pictures of all the comic book characters as proof that he existed. Just imagine what it'd be like if we actually saw him in action in at least one strip.

Shout out to SuperDuper for sending me this link! He made a fan girl very happy tonight! Warning: This post might come off as a little dramatic, but I'm wrapped up in my feels right now! Brothers and sisters! It is apparent that we have finally reached one of the promise lands! Okay, so last night I went to the University of Maryland reddit page and asked for any information on the Diamondback newspaper from 1996 to 1998, to see if anyone had them, anyone who had attended the university during those years. I read on one of the wikis once that the original comic strips had been lost forever and that the only things you could find were a few scanned items from the Source Magazine and Hitlist.com, which I don't think is up anymore. But my nerdy-fan-girl-self was NOT about to give up just yet! So, in a moment of hopefulness and desperation to find something more than what I found the other night, I did the only thing that hadn't been done yet......I asked if anyone had a copy of the newspaper from one of those years, and to my surprise today, a redditor who I'd like to give a big shout out to, superduper, sent me a link to the archives.

Here is a link to one of them:https://www.lib.umd.edu/univarchives/student-newspapers/id/a3d8d2e4-230e-4471-b2b8-be7bcd7fce03?query=boondocks

If you want to look at more and maybe find the character Hiro Otomo, one of Huey's friends, in there just type in Boondocks, then go to the 1997 section (they don't have 1996, but that's fine) and view the scanned images for yourself!

Where is the character Hiro Otomo? In most of the wikis that talk about the Boondocks comic strips, Hiro is mentioned as one of Huey's friends. But when I read each of the old comic strips from 1996 to 1997, he wasn't featured at all. It's especially confusing because he's on the covers of some of the Boondocks comic books and in a picture where Aaron McGruder is with all the characters in the comics. So, is he not in the original newspaper comics or what? Can someone explain?

It has commentary on practically every Black issue that we have faced over the years, politics, characters that were originally in the comics but not featured on the TV show, and more. It's comedy gold! Here is the link: http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/1999/04/19 Even though I loved the show, I loved this as a child, too, and in so many ways, the comic is a little better than the show, and actually has a true ending.

Hi guys. Some time ago I bought "The Boondocks. A Right to be Hostile" and almost finished reading it. Unlike the other collected editions it says that it's a treasury and doesn't state from which time span the strips in the edition come from. I also noticed that somtimes between the strips a couple of days are missing. So my question:

Is this collection (or treasuries in general) some kind of "selected edition"?
Or did McGruder sometimes just take a break from the strips for several days or weeks?

On the back it also says it's more than 800 strips, not "all of them". Which makes me think even more that it's only selected comics. But if anyone knows for sure please let me know!

Thanks in advance! :)

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