About

Lalo Alcaraz is an award-winning visual/media artist and television/film writer. A Los Angeles resident, he has been chronicling the ascendancy of Latinos in the U.S. for over a quarter-century.

He is the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip "La Cucaracha" seen in the L.A. Times and other newspapers nationwide. He is founder and Jefe-in-Chief of POCHO.

He was an editorial cartoonist for the L.A. Weekly from 1992-2010 and now creates editorial cartoons in English and Spanish for Andrews McMeel Syndication, Daily Kos, and various newspapers, including Philadelphia’s Al Dia News.

Growing up in the 1970s, I voraciously absorbed all the TV sitcoms I could. This obsession led to a love of comedy and to aspirations for this…

Students attending school in the winter, mostly in the Midwest or the East Coast, get a Snow Day if a heavy snowstorm blankets their town then…

The L.A. Chicano art community sadly sends off one of our great friends, artist Jose Lozano, who passed away last week. It was an honor to sha…

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