Lalo Alcaraz

Lalo Alcaraz is an Hispanic-American cartoonist. He is most known for being the author of the comic La Cucaracha, the first nationally syndicated, politically themed Latino daily comic strip. Launched in 2002, La Cucaracha has become one of the most controversial in the history of American comic strips. He is also the creator of Daniel D. Portado, a satirical Hispanic character who in 1994 called on Mexican immigrants to return south—reverse immigration—as a response to the controversial Proposition 187. In 2012, Daniel D. Portado returned to the headlines as a result of Mitt Romneys call, during his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, on illegal immigrants to exercise self-deportation.A leading figure in the Chicano movement, Alcaraz formerly contributed political cartoons for LA Weekly from 1992 to 2010. He co-hosts a radio show on KPFK called the Pocho Hour of Power. He also contributed a work of art to the 2008 Obama campaign called Viva Obama. Alcaraz recently taught as a faculty member at Otis College of Art & Design. Alcaraz was also Consulting Producer and Writer on the Seth MacFarlane–executive produced animated show (created by Family Guy show runner Mark Hentemann) Bordertown, which ran one 13-episode season on Fox. It featured the first animated Mexican-American or even Latino family on primetime American television. Lalo Alcaraz also served as producer along with Gustavo Arellano on comedian Al Madrigals TV special for Fusion, Half Like Me. Alcaraz also consults on films, including Pixars Coco (2017). (See Dia De Los Muertos controversy below.) He is also a TV animation producer and consultant at Nickelodeon. Alcaraz is also a performer, performing as an angry mariachi in Pixars Coco (2017) and has portrayed a Mexican bounty hunter named Royce Vargas in the Bill Plympton/Jim Lujan animated feature film, Revengeance (2017).

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