There's a CNN.com item sure to disappoint fans of Aaron McGruder's comic strip The Boondocks. Nearing the end of an announced six-month hiatus, McGruder has declined to name a date when it will be returning. The website talked to Lee Salem, president of Universal Press, McGruder's syndicate:
McGruder, 31, is busy with a Cartoon Network animated TV show of his comic and other ventures and didn't believe it was the right time to decide whether to return to newspapers, Salem said in a telephone interview from Washington D.C.
"It's my understanding, in the communications with Aaron and his agent, that the biggest problem is finding the right time to make a decision," Salem said. "He's not ready to do that at this point. I don't know the answer to (the comic's future)."
Crankshaft, on the other hand, will continue uninterrupted.