McGruder's balancing act

When Adult Swim picked up The Boondocks, the series based on Aaron McGruder's comic strip of the same name, McGruder pretty much abandoned the strip in order to focus all his energy on his new animated series. He continued to write the strip, but hired an artist to draw it. Now McGruder has backed away completely and announced he's taking a six-month vacation from the strip. It seems as if McGruder is slowly setting his original creation aside, and that's to be expected, since the daily grind of trying to churn out a comic strip coupled with the work involved in producing a cartoon series would be enough to drive anyone insane. My only request for McGruder is that if the strip becomes too much for him to handle, he tastefully retire it and direct all his energy toward the show. I'd rather see that than what happened to Garfield, a strip now created by a corporation that Jim Davis simply slaps his name on. McGruder seems to work best when all his energy and vitriol is focused on one thing. If that "one thing" is his TV series, so much the better. If he tries to sparse it out between the strip and the series, they'll both suffer for it eventually.