The strip debuted in The Diamondback under editor Jayson Blair on December 3, 1996, paying McGruder $30 per strip-$17 more than other cartoonists. The Boondocks animated TV series premiered on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming November 6, 2005. McGruder sold the television and film rights for the strip to Sony Pictures Entertainment. McGruder's syndicate said it was among the biggest launches the company ever had. A popular and controversial strip, The Boondocks satirizes African American culture and American politics as seen through the eyes of young, black radical Huey Freeman. As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999. Created by McGruder in 1996 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, the strip moved from the college pages and was printed in the monthly hip hop magazine The Source in 1997. The Boondocks was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006. Clockwise from top: Huey Freeman, Michael Caesar, Hiro Otomo, Riley Freeman, Cindy McPherson
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