The Boondocks The Boondocks began in 1996 as a
webcomic on Hitlist.com, one of the first online music websites. At the time, he was a DJ on
The Soul Controllers Mix Show on
WMUC.
The Boondocks briefly appeared as a comic strip in the University of Maryland's newspaper
The Diamondback, during
Jayson Blair's tenure as editor-in-chief. Five collections of
The Boondocks have been published:
All The Rage,
Public Enemy #2,
A Right To Be Hostile, ''Fresh for '01: You Suckaz
, and Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper''. An
animated television series adaptation of the strip was successful on
Cartoon Network's
Adult Swim. In 2013, McGruder expressed interest in filming a movie featuring
The Boondocks TV series supporting character
Uncle Ruckus.
Gary Anthony Williams would reprise his role. McGruder set a goal of $200,000 for startup donations at uncleruckusmovie.com between January 30 to March 1, 2013, but the campaign ended with 2,667 backers and $129,963. In March 2014,
The Boondocks was revived for a new season, but without McGruder's involvement as its
showrunner. The first episode of the fourth season was first broadcast on April 21, 2014. In 2019, it was announced that a fifth season of
The Boondocks would be produced with McGruder's involvement. The project was cancelled in February 2022.
Other work Among his other projects have been the
Super Deluxe variety comedy series
The Super Rumble Mix Show. McGruder also developed
Black Jesus, another comedy series broadcast on
Adult Swim, part of
Cartoon Network. at the July 12–14, 2002
H2K2 conference that he believed that President
George W. Bush was involved with the
September 11 attacks: During a 2003 reception hosted by
The Nation, McGruder offended attendees by defiantly expressing his support for
Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential bid. McGruder endured heckling and walkouts as he defended his commitment to left-wing causes, including, he claimed, calling
Condoleezza Rice a "mass-murderer" to her face during the 2002
NAACP Image Awards. In 2009,
Richmond, Indiana newspaper
Palladium-Item reported that McGruder told a
Martin Luther King Day audience at local
Earlham College that then-President-elect
Barack Obama was "not black". McGruder released a statement insisting he was misquoted, while maintaining he remained "cautiously pessimistic" about Obama's presidency. In 2010, McGruder worked as screenwriter in the final treatment of the feature film
Red Tails, released in early 2012. Its story is based on the
Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American combat pilots during
World War II. In August 2017, it was announced that McGruder, along with producer
Will Packer, would develop a series for
Amazon Video called
Black America, set in an alternative history wherein emancipated black Americans receive three Southern states as
reparations for slavery and form an independent nation. The series' announcement was seen by some commentators as a response to
HBO's then in-development alternative history series
Confederate, whose plot entails a history wherein the
Confederacy won the
American Civil War; that series was ultimately never developed, with its cancellation confirmed in January 2020. Packer denied the project was a response to
Confederate and was already in development when that series was announced. ==Personal life==