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Lalo Alcaraz Quotes

born 1964 United States

Lalo Alcaraz (born April 19, 1964) is an American cartoonist most known for being the author of the comic La Cucaracha, the first nationally syndicated Latino daily comic strip.

United States
Cartoonists

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It’s what we do as cartoonists, to cut through the [bull] and expose it.

There is still this American societal attitude that we are foreign.

Article (2021)

We’re not here to fix the world’s problems but to shine a big, fat light on them hopefully.

I cartoon because I got tired of feeling excluded from the comic stage.

I dug Mad Magazine, my brain is wired to mock, and Mad just confirmed my world view since I was a kid.

I use humor as a way to cope with that and to let our community know that we’re not invisible, at least not to us.

interview (2017)

The other person (sending hate mail) is at war with me, but I’ve already defeated them. I made some drawings that will be in their heads forever.

Article (2021)

I'm just a guy who was predisposed to be a cartoonist, who happened to make it through all the bullshit that comes with being poor and brown.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lalo Alcaraz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.