Within the press release of Aaron McGruder’s news that The Boondocks’ hiatus may be permanent, is a little tidbit that Universal Press will be launching a new feature called Maintaining in January. Maintaining is by Nate Creekmore, who developed the feature during college. Nate is a two-time recipient of the Charles M. Schulz College Cartoonist Award in 2003 and in 2004 as well as best college cartoonist by the Associated Collegiate Press. The feature is about a bi-racial high school student named Marcus.Â
From an article in the Tennessean, we learn that the feature has been under a development contract for the last year.
You can see samples of Nate’s work on his web site.