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Summary: Daily Comic's Finest
Review: "Fresh for '01, You Suckas" makes a great gift. Forget about the people that complain, "The characters always look so angry," or "This is a racist comic strip...". Aaron McGruder has created the best daily comic since Calvin and Hobbes. Perhaps the most socially aware comic since Doonsbury. Find out what all the fuss is over. See if these characters are causing strains in race relations and "inciting angry black children to riot". Huey and Riley are much more real and amusing than other "steppin' and fetchin'" comic characters. The Grandfather still wonders what's wrong with his boys, Cindy is still obsessed with mainstream black entertainment, and Ceasar is just a rockin' Emcee. Whatever opinion you draw from the Boondocks, it's unlikely that you will ever forget it. FREE JOLLY JENKINS!
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Summary: Daily Comic's Finest
Review: "Fresh for '01, You Suckas" makes a great gift. Forget about the people that complain, "The characters always look so angry," or "This is a racist comic strip...". Aaron McGruder has created the best daily comic since Calvin and Hobbes. Perhaps the most socially aware comic since Doonsbury. Find out what all the fuss is over. See if these characters are causing strains in race relations and "inciting angry black children to riot". Huey and Riley are much more real and amusing than other "steppin' and fetchin'" comic characters. The Grandfather still wonders what's wrong with his boys, Cindy is still obsessed with mainstream black entertainment, and Ceasar is just a rockin' Emcee. Whatever opinion you draw from the Boondocks, it's unlikely that you will ever forget it. FREE JOLLY JENKINS!
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Summary: Walt Kelly's mantle has fallen on Aaron McGruder
Review: A few comic strips have wit, charm and intelligence. Some fewer have bite, courage and acerbic character. None have had all that plus the political relevance of Pogo since Walt Kelly took on the KKK and HUAC back in the late '50's ... except Boondocks. Aaron McGruder is a worthy successor to Walt Kelly, imho, plus he's never worked for Walt Disney. As a defrocked Iowa Democrat, I have all the wrong credentials to recommend this book, but my short list of favorite outrageous authors these days does include, besides Ann Coulter, Aaron McGruder. Bravo.
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Summary: Walt Kelly's mantle has fallen on Aaron McGruder
Review: A few comic strips have wit, charm and intelligence. Some fewer have bite, courage and acerbic character. None have had all that plus the political relevance of Pogo since Walt Kelly took on the KKK and HUAC back in the late '50's ... except Boondocks. Aaron McGruder is a worthy successor to Walt Kelly, imho, plus he's never worked for Walt Disney. As a defrocked Iowa Democrat, I have all the wrong credentials to recommend this book, but my short list of favorite outrageous authors these days does include, besides Ann Coulter, Aaron McGruder. Bravo.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: Aaron McGruder never ceases to amaze me with his eternal wit! He provides comic relief to issues that would normally bring me dangerously close to rage or tears. Issues such as racial/color complexes, politics, and the dire condition that public schools are in. Some of the comics take me back to my college days (although these young gentlemen are in grammar school) when teachers would ask me "So, Harriet...what do BLACK people think about this issue?" (yeah, as if I can answer for millions of African descendants worldwide).At any rate, I commend Mr. McGruder for his boldness through the eyes of Huey, Riley (Esco), and the new character Caesar, giving the neverending shout out to BROOKLYN, BABY! WHAT?! WHAT?! As well as all Chicago heads (my origin) BUK! BUK! BUK! Keep on speaking the truth!
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Summary: Working the great loophole...
Review: Aaron McGruder uses one of America's last great loophole, being African-American, to produce some ridiculously funny stuff. Few white authors in America (sans Andy Rooney) could get away with any if this, but the fact the McGruder is black gets him a free pass. I really don't care, because its good stuff.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK
Review: According to my grandson this is a great read. he read this book and fear of a black marker in 2 days.
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Summary: Fresh for all playas, knaawmsayin?
Review: All right, you Amazon Eastsidaz, lissenup. This here review's fresh from the DJ Da Man, so don't you be dissin' this playa or the Boondocks, knaawmsayin? Having read of Huey Freeman's antics on the FBI anti-terrorism hotline in The Nation magazine, I had to find out more, so I started out with Fresh For '01... You Suckas! The fun and frolics in the day of removed Chicagoans Huey, Riley, their grandfather in the white suburb of Woodcrest, was a refreshing blast of new air for me. In this collection, we are introduced to Michael Caesar, better known as Caesar, a Brooklynite in dreadlocks stranded in white suburbia. In comparison to the perpetually angry and depressed revolutionary Huey and his younger brother Riley, who is "Mr. Thug Life," Caesar seems to be the most normal, as he thinks Huey takes things too seriously at times, but is nevertheless drawn in to his friend's sense of purpose, which is to give more than just lip service to James Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and Proud" anthem. And he's the only one who can cut the obnoxious Riley down to size. Seeing things from a black perspective is interesting and refreshing to say the least. Huey rips on movies for not representing blacks properly. I discern how he longs for more days when blacks were more militant, in the early 1970's. He probably sees Shaft and Coffy as the epitomy of black pride. For him, the revolution needs to start NOW! The best antics involve Huey's grandfather getting a job as a census taker. He delegates authority to Huey, but torn between his desire to stay true to his anti-establishment ways and helping his grandfather, delegates his assignment to Riley, who has a blast harassing whites. Huey in turn ditches lawn cutting duty to go watch The Patriot with Caesar. The mainstreaming of urban culture and language to make white people more hip is seen with Cindy, a cute white girl who sits behind Huey in school and is into Puff Daddy, Jay-Z, and ODB. She means well, trying to connect with Huey in her interest in black pop culture while being clueless to his opposition to the mainstream. She tries to impress him by humming theme songs to old school black shows and even does her spin on the "WHAZZUP?" commercial. In the end, all she does is annoy Huey even more, but at least she's open to more black artists and pop culture, even if it is mainstream and corporately packaged. Cindy's funnier than Eric Cartman doing Flavor-Flav in South Park. This collection covers the early to late stages of the 2000 election. I don't know the time period each collection spans, but I assume the next collection will deal with the 2000 election results and hopefully see Huey's calls to the FBI hotline, and brother, I can't wait for it to come out. Keep'em coming, Mr. McGruder. And to Huey, Caesar, Riley, and the rest of the gang, peace out, y'all.
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Summary: Fresh for all playas, knaawmsayin?
Review: All right, you Amazon Eastsidaz, lissenup. This here review's fresh from the DJ Da Man, so don't you be dissin' this playa or the Boondocks, knaawmsayin? Having read of Huey Freeman's antics on the FBI anti-terrorism hotline in The Nation magazine, I had to find out more, so I started out with Fresh For '01... You Suckas! The fun and frolics in the day of removed Chicagoans Huey, Riley, their grandfather in the white suburb of Woodcrest, was a refreshing blast of new air for me. In this collection, we are introduced to Michael Caesar, better known as Caesar, a Brooklynite in dreadlocks stranded in white suburbia. In comparison to the perpetually angry and depressed revolutionary Huey and his younger brother Riley, who is "Mr. Thug Life," Caesar seems to be the most normal, as he thinks Huey takes things too seriously at times, but is nevertheless drawn in to his friend's sense of purpose, which is to give more than just lip service to James Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and Proud" anthem. And he's the only one who can cut the obnoxious Riley down to size. Seeing things from a black perspective is interesting and refreshing to say the least. Huey rips on movies for not representing blacks properly. I discern how he longs for more days when blacks were more militant, in the early 1970's. He probably sees Shaft and Coffy as the epitomy of black pride. For him, the revolution needs to start NOW! The best antics involve Huey's grandfather getting a job as a census taker. He delegates authority to Huey, but torn between his desire to stay true to his anti-establishment ways and helping his grandfather, delegates his assignment to Riley, who has a blast harassing whites. Huey in turn ditches lawn cutting duty to go watch The Patriot with Caesar. The mainstreaming of urban culture and language to make white people more hip is seen with Cindy, a cute white girl who sits behind Huey in school and is into Puff Daddy, Jay-Z, and ODB. She means well, trying to connect with Huey in her interest in black pop culture while being clueless to his opposition to the mainstream. She tries to impress him by humming theme songs to old school black shows and even does her spin on the "WHAZZUP?" commercial. In the end, all she does is annoy Huey even more, but at least she's open to more black artists and pop culture, even if it is mainstream and corporately packaged. Cindy's funnier than Eric Cartman doing Flavor-Flav in South Park. This collection covers the early to late stages of the 2000 election. I don't know the time period each collection spans, but I assume the next collection will deal with the 2000 election results and hopefully see Huey's calls to the FBI hotline, and brother, I can't wait for it to come out. Keep'em coming, Mr. McGruder. And to Huey, Caesar, Riley, and the rest of the gang, peace out, y'all.
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Summary: THE RECENT MCGRUDER
Review: Before anyone purchases this book they should be aware of McGruder's more recent cartoon panels after to 911. His inappropriate comments about the President, the american people and the military have caused 3 principal newspapers, two in new york, one in Dallas to drop him.
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