Product Description

Through La Cucaracha, creator Lalo Alcaraz makes blunt social comment both hard-hitting and hilarious. The result-La Cucaracha is not just a pleasure, but also a craving for thousands of readers in more than 60 newspapers.The strong undercurrent of modern Latino themes and issues adds a sharp layer of meaning to the humor. In one strip, an immigrant bartender has listened to two customers rant, "I'm telling ya, there's too many immigrants pouring into this country." When one of the customers asks for another drink the bartender declares, "I'm an immigrant, and guess what? I'm not pouring!"This first of perceptive La Cucaracha humor will delight and gratify all audiences that appreciate intelligent, progressive, deeply amusing comics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #483773 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Lalo Alcaraz has been winning awards as quickly as La Cucaracha has been winning fans. A deluge of honors have been bestowed on the Mexican-American artist, including four Southern California Journalism Awards for Best Cartoon in Weekly Papers, the Los Angeles Hispanic Public Relations Association's Premio Award for Excellence in Communications, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics "Art As A Hammer" Award.

Customer Reviews

Excellent view of American diversity
Lalo Alcaraz's La Cucaracha is an excellent view of American diversity. With humor and irony, Alcaraz exposes issues relevant to Mexican-Americans, a group that is as AMERICAN as anybody else, since they were on American soil since even before the United States existed as such, but have been discriminated for a long time. At times, the reader can feel the anger of Alcaraz (who is of Mexican descent himself), and that seems to upset some of his readers. I recommend this work to anyone interested in American issues, especially Chicano, diversity or multicultural studies.