No one who has read The Boondocks
has a neutral opinion about its writer, Aaron McGruder. You either love
him or hate him, or vacillate between the two extremes. The
twenty-something radical leftie is working on a Simpsons-style animated
series that will air, ironically, on Fox, probably next year, and as
the New Yorkerreported last month,
he's managed to outrage almost everyone of every political stripe,
including other cartoonists who say that he's gotten lazy (the strip is
now drawn by Jennifer Seng, though McGruder still does the writing),
and that he's relentless to the point of being tedious and unfunny. He
is the most banned cartoonist in history, with many of the 300+ papers
carrying the strip having cut it at one time or another. But as I think
the above strip from last week shows, McGruder's biting wit has lost
none of its edge, and demonstrates a fearlessness that goes beyond even
what Doonsbury and Bloom County achieved.
I'm honoured to have been
included in the brilliant and industrious Sébastein Paquet's
list of seven web visionaries,
along with
Lion Kimbro,
Marc Canter, Eric Hanson, Flemming Funch, Eugene Eric Kim, and Phil
Jones. I am familiar with Flemming's and Marc's writing, and have run into Phil's Blahsploitation
blog, but Lion, Eric and Eugene are new discoveries to me. Great
additions to your blogroll, everyone. But I have one question: Where
are the women visionaries? I can think of a lot of Misbehaving candidates and Ms. Muses who might qualify. Who do you think are the Net's most visionary women? I'll publish my list next week.
MADE IN CANADA
trust your
instincts 
I'm honoured to have been
included in the brilliant and industrious Sébastein Paquet's
list of seven 
