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Boondocks comic strip

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Over the last several years, students enrolled in African American literature courses here at SIUE have covered writings by ex-slaves such as Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, and Harriet Jacobs as well as literary interpretations of enslavement and struggles for freedom by modern writers such as Robert Hayden, Charles Johnson, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey. To the extent that the reading materials often fall outside many students’ typical educational curriculum, we sometimes…

Lee Salem is a guy I’ve admired for many, many years. As the president and editor of Universal Press Syndicate, he is the man responsible for recognizing a slew of creative talent that impacted American pop culture and the funny pages over the last 30-plus years. The origins of Garry Trudeau and “Doonesbury,” Gary Larson and “The Far Side,” Bill Watterson and “Calvin and Hobbes,” Lynn Johnston and “For Better or Worse” and Cathy Guisewite and “Cathy,” all can be traced back to the man I’m…