One thing I miss most about reading newspapers online is the comics page. The Boondocks would be one of my regular reads if I still subjected my fingers to newsprint, but even without daily access, I read the strip online whenever I remember to do so (which, sadly, isn't as often as I might like).
Aaron McGruder, the strip's creator, has been the subject of two longish articles recently, one in The New Yorker, and the other in The Los Angeles Times. One highlight: The New Yorker's account of McGruder's speech at a birthday dinner for The Nation is a comic gem of liberal politics and racial decorum run amok.
I would be inclined to like McGruder anyway, but like him even more because of the people who dislike him. I just wish he weren't such an apologist for Ralph Nader, but you can't have everything.
Posted by gminter at April 26, 2004 09:43 AM