Q&A with LALO ALCARAZ: ‘La Cucaracha’ creator gets a national closeup on Ovation

By Michael Cavna, Washington Post

Last night many people met Lalo Alcaraz and his impassioned work for the first time. So what would the creator of “La Cucaracha” — the first widely syndicated Latino-themed political strip — like those Ovation channel viewers to take away from this introduction?

“I hope people can be tricked into thinking how simple and easy a cartoonist’s gig can be,” Alcaraz tells The Post.

“But seriously,” the Southern California-based creator says, “I hope they can see how I’m not a scary bomb-throwing Chicano artist.”

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[Photo courtesy of Ovation]

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