Cartoon Creator Carl Jones On "Freaknik: The Musical" and Season
3 of "The Boondocks"   You may not know Carl Jones, but if
you've ever watched an episode of Aaron McGruder's The
Boondocks, you're very familiar with his work. As producer,
writer and voice actor (Thugnificent), Carl has helped make the
adult swim cartoon one of the best, most incendiary and funniest
shows on TV. But that's not all he does. A couple months ago,
he—along with adult swim's Nick Widenfield and T-Pain—created
the one-off cartoon movie Freaknik: The Musical. While met with
praise from those who found the writing witty and the guest
spots on point, there were critics who implied that the
outrageous comedy was nothing more than animated black face.
With so much going on, we had to chop it up with the
animator/writer/producer who was once developing a cartoon for
Roc-A-Fella and who met Aaron McGruder randomly one day on the
street. We talked to him about how Freaknik came to be, how he
felt about all the criticism and what we can exp