Aaron McGruder Aaron McGruder is the writer and illustrator of the daily comic strip Boondocks which has been entertaining, educating, and outraging members of the populace for years. Some of these strips have focused on hacking and have come closer to accuracy than virtually anything else in the newspapers they appear in. McGruder graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Afro-American Studies with a concentration in Social and Cultural Analysis, and has no intention of ever returning to school for a graduate degree of any sort. Occasionally he can be heard co-hosting the Soul Controller Mix Show on WMUC 88.1 FM, College Park, Maryland. McGruder also has an unhealthy and expensive affinity for Star Wars merchandise and Japanese animation.