# Where are my Boondocks?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 19, 2001, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585 "2001-03-19T14:54:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585/1 "2001-03-19T14:54:30Z")

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They aren’t in the paper and not on my online paper’s comic page. No explanation, no warning they are just gone!!!

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**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585/2 "2001-03-19T19:01:16Z")

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Hey that’s too bad **lee** they’re in every paper in tha Bay Area that I know of, except the Contra Costa Times. I love that comic!

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585/3 "2001-03-20T00:28:18Z")

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Jeez, lee, don’t scare me like that. Here they are: [http://www.boondocks.net/main.html](http://www.boondocks.net/main.html)

Aaron McGruder does the most exquisite pen-and-ink I’ve ever seen in a newspaper comic. I’ve seen comic **books** (graphic novels) that were better, but nothing in a daily paper even comes close. No, not even Calvin and Hobbes had such precision.

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**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585/4 "2001-03-20T00:40:21Z")

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A friend found a very recent post on OKPlayer quoting Aaron as saying he was taking a break from writing the strip.

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**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585/5 "2001-03-20T01:15:36Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \*  
> \*\*Jeez, lee, don’t scare me like that. Here they are: [http://www.boondocks.net/main.html](http://www.boondocks.net/main.html)  
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The strip on that site is a repeat.

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585/6 "2001-03-20T01:23:13Z")

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Doh! I thought I’d seen it before.

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**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585/7 "2001-03-20T02:34:03Z")

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You can get your daily Boondocks at [uComics](http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/viewbo.cfm).

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-boondocks/58585/8 "2001-03-20T10:52:44Z")

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The artist is on vacation, I think until April 2. In the meantime, my paper is printing reruns.
