Tom Tomorrow was also a bit puzzled by that quote from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about tweaking the language of the Boondocks strip.
Luckily, one of his readers tried something utterly unprecedented.
Update from reader Dwight Brown:
After reading the entry in your weblog concerning the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution's "tweaking" of "Boondocks", I read the original
article and sent an e-mail asking for specifics on the circumstances of the
"tweaking." I also asked if Mr. McGruder knew of the change. Here is the
response I received:From: "Inside"
To: "Dwight Brown"
RE: Tweaking?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:52:45 -0400We edited out a vulgarity and replaced it with dashes so that the meaning
would be clear but without the word itself. Yes, Mr. McGruder knows
Vulgarity?
Ok, I'm drawing a blank on that one. Unless you count "dang."
Might have been a "hell" in one strip. . .
Anyone got any ideas? Since it's much more fun to speculate wildly than for me to email the editor and ask what, specifically, got changed?
which day? i get them in the email, and i rarely clean my inbox, may have the original laying around here or at home.
kd, doesn't look like the editor specified a day.
And you have to sign up for an account to read older strips at Ucomics.com now. When did that happen?
ucomics wants to make money or something.
which pisses me off. I'm not paying like 9 bucks a month or something to read comics on my computer.
you can get one for free -- it's just to have a whole selection of them, it's a subscription. i just get the one.
Make money? On the 'net? Are they on crack?
Or going to change over to porn strips?
Boonco...
no, that's just wrong.
and yup, kd, i get my one comic in the mail too but they are hard selling the subscription.
I get the Boondocks from UComics as well, and I don't pay. I haven't checked them in a week or so and seem to have deleted the mails... has anyone found out which day it was? I've never seen anything vulgar in those strips, either. Huh.