How Aaron McGruder Created The Boondocks | Behind The Boondocks

►► How Aaron McGruder Created The Boondocks

The Boondocks is a series that has reached millions on its premise. The prospect of doing a retrospective on it has always been interesting to me, but I want to cover everything.

The Hitlist. The Diamondback. The interviews. The production. And, naturally, even every meticulous detail of the comic strip. What is The Boondocks? What was Aaron's original concept for it? And, how did it end up getting created in the first place?

This was originally a documentary project that we scrapped in 2020, but the information, interviews and notes are still all there, and I figure deserves to be shared.

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Sources & Citations:
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I cover media and discussion topics from a black leftist lens framed around The Boondocks, black identity and a range of nerdy stuff I'm into. In my spare time, I supply food for a foodbank, infrequently attend an afro diaspora community garden and I'm developing a black indie video game called NIXIE.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction to the Boondocks Docuseries
1:13 - Who's Aaron McGruder?
5:33 - Early Iterations of The Boondocks' Concept
10:15 - The First Team Behind The Boondocks
13:16 - Touch The Sky Intermission
14:06 - The World of The Boondocks
29:30 - Reviewing The Comic Strips