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Lalo Alcaraz
13 quotes
“It’s what we do as cartoonists, to cut through the [bull] and expose it.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2022 interview
“I cartoon because I got tired of feeling excluded from the comic stage.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 interview
“We’re not here to fix the world’s problems but to shine a big, fat light on them hopefully.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 interview
“There is still this American societal attitude that we are foreign.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article (2021)
“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.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2002 interview in Attitude by Ted Rall
“I dug Mad Magazine, my brain is wired to mock, and Mad just confirmed my world view since I was a kid.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2002 interview in Attitude by Ted Rall
“In college I was an editorial cartoonist for my school paper, The Daily Aztec...I did straight, news-oriented editorial cartoons. Occasionally, my Chicano background snuck in to the toons simply because I might do a César Chavez toon about how the School Student Board was too stupidly racist to allow him to speak on campus or other anti-frat toons on how they were so racist in doing fund-raisers for Tijuana kid charities--dressed in sombreros and begging with tin cups.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2002 interview in Attitude by Ted Rall
“in Hollywood, I mean they don’t know we exist. They’re barely starting to figure out that there are Mexican Americans. And so 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.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I do push Spanglish. I do push biculturalism, to make it normal. That’s what I didn’t see, growing up, on TV. I grew up on the border, in San Diego, as a kid. Never saw brown people on TV unless I watched the stuff in Spanish. But so eventually I realized, wow, we are just not anywhere — what’s going on?”
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“why did I not learn in school that my culture is older than 2000 years. It’s maybe 20,000 years old. And how come they don’t teach you that in school?”
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“And I eventually — when I went to Berkeley, which is where I got my masters in architecture, there I met other Chicanos that wanted to do sketch comedy, wanted to make music, wanted to write comedy. And we, of course, aggregated, and that’s when I realized, wow, this is what I was meant to be doing.”
Lalo Alcaraz (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel like, definitely, melancholy, mixed emotions. I’m sad that we’re still — I’m now drawing again almost the same cartoons that I was drawing 22, 23 years ago, during Prop 187 in California, the first anti-immigrant — big anti-Mexican-immigrant law that came out, modern time.”
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