Right. Asking questions. Why didn't I think of that?
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?
Comments
which day? i get them in the email, and i rarely clean my inbox, may have the original laying around here or at home.
Posted by: kd | October 23, 2002 1:35 PM
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?
Posted by: Aaron | October 23, 2002 2:43 PM
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.
Posted by: Jason | October 23, 2002 8:06 PM
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.
Posted by: kd | October 23, 2002 8:54 PM
Make money? On the 'net? Are they on crack?
Or going to change over to porn strips?
Posted by: Aaron | October 23, 2002 9:43 PM
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.
Posted by: Jason | October 24, 2002 2:17 AM
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.
Posted by: Monkey! | October 26, 2002 1:40 AM