'Boondocks' creator McGruder taking a break from comic strip
Published: Wed, Mar. 01, 2006 12:00AM
Modified Wed, Mar. 01, 2006 02:53AM
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closeThe "Boondocks", the black comic-strip family living in white suburbia, are going on vacation.
Aaron McGruder, the cartoonist behind the strip syndicated in about 350 American newspapers, including The News & Observer, said Tuesday that he would take about six months off beginning this month.
"Every well needs occasional refreshing," he wrote in a letter to be sent to editors of newspapers carrying the strip. "I hope that this fall you will agree that the time away from the demands of deadlines has served the strip, your readers and me."
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McGruder offered no further explanation and declined interviews. His editor at Universal Press Syndicate, Greg Melvin, said McGruder simply needed a break.
The last new comic will appear March 26. Papers can run old "Boondocks" strips or a replacement until it returns in October. It has not been decided whether The News & Observer will use the reruns, features editor Tommy Goldsmith said.
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