Weekly cartoon tailored for mainstream daily newspapers. The “La Cucaracha” strip is a variation of the L.A.
Weekly-has not had as warm a reception as “Baldo’s” creators from syndicates, although at least one is still considering his strip. Press Club for his agitative political cartoon the “L.A. Los Angeles cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz is also launching a comic strip today, although his “La Cucaracha” is self-syndicated and, so far, has been picked up only by the northern edition of the Albuquerque Journal.Īlcaraz-who has won multiple awards from the L.A. Other artists are finding success without the help of syndicates, which act as sales representatives for the comics in their stable. The character Gordo-which literally means “Fat”-was a heavyset Mexican hombre who wore a big mustache and sombrero, and drove a bus he called “El Cometa Haley”-Haley’s Comet. It was created by Gus Arriola and was syndicated from 1941 to 1985.
Just like the African American cartoonists who broke the color barrier in the comics pages in recent years, Latino artists have long tried to do the same.Īmong the earliest such comics to run successfully in mainstream dailies was “Gordo”-a strip now considered by some as much too stereotypical to be successful in today’s politically aware environment. But some Latino artists see this as tokenism and compare it to Hollywood’s often criticized attempts at diversity. Some of the current crop of mainstream strips have Latino characters in minor roles-such as “Zits,” which includes a character named Hector.
0 kommentar(er)
