April 16, 2004

Bil Keane calls Aaron McGruder unfunny

Posted By Chris Crosby at 10:24 PM

Here's a pretty interesting profile of BOONDOCKS creator Aaron McGruder from THE NEW YORKER. This is probably my favorite paragraph from it:

"I don't go to the cartoonist conventions," McGruder said. "I went once, to the Reuben Awards"--the Oscars of cartooning--"and I didn't feel very welcome. I felt a palpable sense of resentment. Bil Keane was the MC, and he opened doing more than one joke that was clearly aimed at me. It was raw--"just some f***ed-up shit. O.K., and yet, if I get out of my chair right now and beat the shit out of you, then I'm the bad guy? You're sitting here, clearly dogging me--not by name, but how many black cartoonists are working? He told some joke about diversity in comics. Like 'There's a lot of diversity in comics these days. They don't have to be funny, they just have to be diverse.' There were a couple of shots at me where I was like, 'Motherf***er, you don't know me. We're not cool.'"

That's CLASSIC. I actually used to be a fan of THE FAMILY CIRCUS as a small child, but now I wouldn't even really be THAT sad if Bil Keane was killed in a drive-by shooting.

Okay, I would be sad. But just a little bit. I mean, he's like 200 years old and a millionaire, and Jeffy's drawing the strip now, I think. It wouldn't be the world's BIGGEST tragedy or anything.

I should've stopped writing at "That's CLASSIC." * 0 comments

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