Press: Comic N the Hood

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So far, most newspaper editors are rallying behind The Boondocks. Readers who don't appreciate it suffer from "irony deficiency," wrote columnist Kristin Tillotson in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, where letters at first ran 8 to 1 against the strip: "The Boondocks exposes racial issues alive and festering under the rug of polite society." McGruder says he's exploring "those murky depths where you're trying to figure out what's racism, what's ignorance, what's naivete." When an old white lady pats Riley on the head and calls him "cutie pie," the boy responds angrily that he's "nobody's pet Negro." Neither is McGruder.