Post by Lucy on Oct 4, 2015 1:04:36 GMT
Well. I was sort of hoping somebody else would post here in the last few hours so I wouldn't have to post 3 times in a row in the same thread. Oh well.
-First things first: My previous description of them being the same jokes was misleading. I wrote that after I had just started going through them, but from what I can tell, only the first strip was recycled into the syndicated version. So, the good news is: new finds! The bad news is, unless they've been collected in some compilation book (I don't know a whole lot about The Boondocks, maybe they have), that means we still need to find the strips that were only on hitlist.com since these aren't all of the pre-syndication strips.
-Second, I apologize for the contrast on these. When you're dealing with 15-20 year old microfilm naturally the quality won't be perfect, and this is the best I could get them to look.
-Last, thanks to the very kind people working at McKeldin Library. They spent a good 30-45 minutes helping us find the Diamondback archives after the higher-ups, at some point, decided to move/mislabel them and not tell anybody about it. They also were very helpful in teaching how to use the ScanPro machines despite the fact that none of them knew either.
ANYWAYS. HERE THEY ARE, CROPPED AND WITH THE PROPER DATES ATTACHED. THIS CONTAINS EVERY SINGLE STRIP PUBLISHED IN THE DIAMONDBACK, AND THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 30 STRIPS.
December 3rd, 1996
December 4th, 1996
December 5th, 1996
December 6th, 1996
December 9th, 1996
December 10th, 1996
December 11th, 1996
January 31st, 1997 (there was a large date gap in the archives, presumably it wasn't published during winter break)
February 3rd, 1997
February 4th, 1997
February 5th, 1997
February 6th, 1997
February 7th, 1997
February 10th, 1997
February 11th, 1997
February 12th, 1997
February 13th, 1997
February 14th, 1997
February 17th, 1997
February 18th, 1997
February 19th, 1997
February 20th, 1997
February 21st, 1997
February 25th, 1997
February 26th, 1997
February 27th, 1997
February 28th, 1997
March 3rd, 1997
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On March 4th, 1997, the strip could not be printed, due to a technical error. The following was printed in its place:
Aaron McGruder was less than pleased. The strip did not run at all for the next two weeks because of this, and because of the paper's lack of an apology for it, on March 18th, the following article ran, which marked the complete end of the strips run in The Diamondback.
( I didn't realize until I got home that the left side of the text was cut off. Sorry guys, I dropped the ball on that one.)
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Anyways. So now we've found we have more to search for, but at least we know that those strips do exist.
EDIT: Added a .rar archive of all the strips in case people want to download them: www.dropbox.com/s/19fuzkw64aw04g0/boondocks.rar?dl=0
-First things first: My previous description of them being the same jokes was misleading. I wrote that after I had just started going through them, but from what I can tell, only the first strip was recycled into the syndicated version. So, the good news is: new finds! The bad news is, unless they've been collected in some compilation book (I don't know a whole lot about The Boondocks, maybe they have), that means we still need to find the strips that were only on hitlist.com since these aren't all of the pre-syndication strips.
-Second, I apologize for the contrast on these. When you're dealing with 15-20 year old microfilm naturally the quality won't be perfect, and this is the best I could get them to look.
-Last, thanks to the very kind people working at McKeldin Library. They spent a good 30-45 minutes helping us find the Diamondback archives after the higher-ups, at some point, decided to move/mislabel them and not tell anybody about it. They also were very helpful in teaching how to use the ScanPro machines despite the fact that none of them knew either.
ANYWAYS. HERE THEY ARE, CROPPED AND WITH THE PROPER DATES ATTACHED. THIS CONTAINS EVERY SINGLE STRIP PUBLISHED IN THE DIAMONDBACK, AND THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 30 STRIPS.
December 3rd, 1996
December 4th, 1996
December 5th, 1996
December 6th, 1996
December 9th, 1996
December 10th, 1996
December 11th, 1996
January 31st, 1997 (there was a large date gap in the archives, presumably it wasn't published during winter break)
February 3rd, 1997
February 4th, 1997
February 5th, 1997
February 6th, 1997
February 7th, 1997
February 10th, 1997
February 11th, 1997
February 12th, 1997
February 13th, 1997
February 14th, 1997
February 17th, 1997
February 18th, 1997
February 19th, 1997
February 20th, 1997
February 21st, 1997
February 25th, 1997
February 26th, 1997
February 27th, 1997
February 28th, 1997
March 3rd, 1997
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On March 4th, 1997, the strip could not be printed, due to a technical error. The following was printed in its place:
Aaron McGruder was less than pleased. The strip did not run at all for the next two weeks because of this, and because of the paper's lack of an apology for it, on March 18th, the following article ran, which marked the complete end of the strips run in The Diamondback.
( I didn't realize until I got home that the left side of the text was cut off. Sorry guys, I dropped the ball on that one.)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anyways. So now we've found we have more to search for, but at least we know that those strips do exist.
EDIT: Added a .rar archive of all the strips in case people want to download them: www.dropbox.com/s/19fuzkw64aw04g0/boondocks.rar?dl=0