Lalo Alcaraz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Lalo Alcaraz

Mexican-American cartoonist, most known for being the author of the comic La Cucaracha

Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1964

Place of Birth: San Diego, California, United States

Profession: cartoonist, radio personality

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


Show Famous Birthdays Today, United States

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Lalo Alcaraz

  • Lalo Alcaraz is an 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 Madrigal's TV special for Fusion, Half Like Me.
  • Alcaraz also consults on films, including Pixar's Coco (2017).
  • (See Dia De Los Muertos controversy below.) He is also a TV animation producer and consultant on The Casagrandes (2019) animated sitcom on Nickelodeon.
  • Alcaraz is also a performer, voicing an angry mariachi in Pixar's "Coco" (2017) and has portrayed a Mexican bounty hunter named "Royce Vargas" in the Bill Plympton/Jim Lujan animated feature film, Revengeance (2017).

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also