The Boondocks

Adding to the comic strip communities of the fediverse, i started The Boondocks today. !theboonkdocks@slrpnk.net

The Boondocks is probably most well known for the Adult Swim cartoon, but before that it was a comic strip that started in "The Diamondback", the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park on 3 December 1996.

It ran there until March of 1997 when a strip was missed, the following day a large OOPS was published in the strip's place. The artist, and creator of the strip, Aaron McGruder then started publishing The Boondocks in Source magazine from 97-98. The earliest strip in syndication is 19 April 1999.

It was also published on hitlist.com. Initially i thought that happened after it left the Diamondback, but it actually sounds like it was published there first.

A moderator for lostmediawiki went to the University of Maryland library and found microfiche of the Diamondback and has shared the early Boondocks Strips. They are quite rough visually. Thank you to Lucy for preserving these.

Since I missed the actual first day of the strip, i will post a few to get us caught up. Then there will be a break for March and half of April (unless someone manages to uncover any strips) when I will resume on the 19th with the strips from 1999.