Pepito continues the blame game, but Juan doesn’t want to hear it…
Cartoons
La Cucaracha y Mas
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.14
Pepito is all over Juan’s case and blames him for all their mistakes. And after their teacher died, he asks, what exactly does that make the two of them?
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.13
Pepito and Juan continue their post-mortem review of the school video project on the way home…
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.11 and 1.12
Double Feature: A good grade on a project is typically a good reason to celebrate but the way class ended for Pepito and Juan was not what they had hoped for …
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.10
Pepito isn’t pleased with the classroom’s reaction to his video project but he intends to continue what he began until …
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.9
After a mad scramble away from the mad homeless guy, Pepito’s video ends. But the reaction to his tale of gentrification and displacement is not what he had hoped…
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.8
Remember Pulp Fiction? Remember the army surplus store with The Gimp? Pepito is having flashbacks about that right now…
The Coachella art scene, home made by The Date Farmers (video)
East of Los Angeles via Interstate 10 lies the Coachella Valley, home of the desert oasis of Palm Springs, a famed music festival and acres of stately date palms.
On the wrong side of tracks, in the town of Coachella, there’s a group of Chicano artists who call themselves The Date Farmers. They make art out of love for themselves and their neighbors. This is their story. (Apologies to iOS users. KCET insists on using Flash.)
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Mas…A message from our sponsor: Gays for hire at RentALatino!
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.7
Pepito wraps up his discussion of gentrification, but not before an irate store owner decides to STAND HIS GROUND…
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.6
Pepito sits by Juan’s hospital bed and tries to pick up his discussion of “gentrification” where he left off.
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.4 and 1.5
After that huge ¡POW! Pepito has some catching up to do — like WTF happened just now? Was the camera rolling? Where exactly is Juan?
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The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.3
Pepito continues his discussion of the forces of oppression and we’ve got the full episode below.
Coming in late?
Start with Numero Uno, and then try the exciting Number Two cartoon combo with rice and beans!
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.2
PREVIOUSLY ON PEPITO AND JUAN
Pepito continues his passionate denunciation of the pendejos that are keeping La Raza down, until…
The whole page is below.
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.1
Pepito has a long list of people and companies and forces that have abused the Latino community for years.
And he names names!
There’s former California Gov. Pete Wilson, for example, the entire Republican party, the Hate State of Arizona, Lou Dobbs, beer companies and …
Debuting Cinco de Mayo: The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan will debut on POCHO at midnight, May 5, Cinco de Mayo. Look for a new episode every night at midnight until we run out of cartoons, or creator Gabriel Tellez, Jr. makes more.
What’s it all about? Per Tellez:
Pepito (left): The highly intelligent, politically/socially conscious Chicano who is considered “too liberal” by conservatives, and “too soft” by self-proclaimed revolutionaries. Though a progressive reformist at heart who likes to be “the middle guy” in social and political issues, Pepito despises hardcore conservatives as much as he despises Che-shirt wearing teenagers who don’t know what they are protesting about.
Juan (right): While being the more friendly and outgoing one of the duo, Juan isn’t really too bright when it comes to more important issues that plague society, and would rather smoke weed than join Pepito in his quest to empower the Latino community. Juan is also flirtatious at heart, as he always seems to find the time to hit on all the pretty girls he comes to contact with (which usually ends up in slaps to the face.)
Published in cooperation with Tellez, who is a hoopy frood.
Mas…Debuting Cinco de Mayo: The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but you’re a Latina? OMFG!
Step right up for ethnic stereotype theater!
Students create gigantic portrait of Cesar Chavez from 5500 dominos
San Diego students used dominos to create a huge Cesar Chavez mural and installed it over the weekend in Chicano Park. NBC San Diego’s Gitzel Puente reports:
It took 5,500 domino pieces, 40 students and six weeks to create this piece of art. Students and staff from O’Farrell Community School started this mural using blueprints, and then they glued them to vinyl tiles [and]…dedicated this 10-foot mural to farm labor leader Cesar Chavez.
“About two months ago, we decided to do something for the community and what better thing to do than dedicate this to Cesar Chavez. We started telling the kids about it, letting them know what he did, his legacy and how he brought people together for a good cause,” says O’Farell’s Spanish instructor Jose Islas.
Puente uploaded a nice photo of the portrait to her Twitter account. We have it below:
Mas…Students create gigantic portrait of Cesar Chavez from 5500 dominos
El Machete Illustrated: Undocumented and alien — the cartoon
It’s Income Tax day — do you know where your undocumented alien superhero is?
My name is Lady Justice and I endorse this message
Lady Justice wears a Hoodie for Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman, the killer of the 17-year-old African-American teenager in Sanford, FLA, has finally been arrested and arraigned — this only after national outrage and agitation by Americans of all races. We hope that Justice is truly blind, and also that she wears a hoodie.
Lima, Peru: Why did you paint the wall? Because it was there (video)
Tajo Abierto by Decertor. Festival Latir Latino, realizado en las calles de Miraflores, Lima 2012. In other words, OK, like in Peru? It was this Latino Beat Festival. Right, yeah. Lima, Peru. And this dude painted this massive other dude all sideways and stuff on a wall. OK and he like video’d it. Sweet.
‘Coonskin’ animated masterpiece by Ralph Bakshi explores racism
[NSFW. This is totally not safe for work. F word, N word etc.] We were very surprised to see it online and don’t know how long it will be available. Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin is
… a subversive and satirical re-imagining of Disney’s Song Of The South with an urban spin, Ralph Bakshi’s incendiary masterpiece Coonskin exploits and eviscerates grotesque American racial stereotypes with a politically incorrect, profane and vicious sense of humor. — Dangerous Minds
Lalo Alcaraz: Selected cartoons, posters, art and illustrations
Here are some of my recent favorite cartoons, posters, illustrations and propaganda.
I hope they’re your favorites, too!
Romney campaign tries to shake off Etch A Sketch remark
The Romney campaign is one built on strong policy principles, unless, of course, they need to change them to pander to primary voters.
“Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes,” Romney campaign advisor Eric Fehrnstrom said Wednesday on CNN. “It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.”
Lalo Alcaraz draws his split personality in ‘La Cucaracha’ (video)
Two years ago, POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz (San Diego State University 1987) told folks at his alma mater how college days during the Reagan era led to his split personality. The two halves of his brain are now the two main characters in his syndicated daily comic La Cucaracha.
Mas…Lalo Alcaraz draws his split personality in ‘La Cucaracha’ (video)
How Lalo Alcaraz got me fired from Patch.com – the true story
From December of 2010 through Spring 2011, I was the editor of Brentwood.Patch.com, the West Los Angeles outpost of AOL/Huffington Post’s “hyperlocal” news operation.
For Cinco de Mayo, I commissioned three stories: The real history of Cinco de Mayo as related by a professor at Mount St. Mary’s (Brentwood’s only college), the best places to celebrate with nachos and beer in Brentwood and a cartoon from my friend Lalo Alcaraz about how the Battle of Puebla is understood in Brentwood.
Mas…How Lalo Alcaraz got me fired from Patch.com – the true story
Rush Limbaugh, million dollar whore
Bloated drug addict and political hate merchant Rush Limbaugh has been losing advertisers on his hateful radio show since he called 30-year-old Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute.” She merited this libelous statement apparently because she would dare to stand up for women’s health concerns and also use contraceptives. Yes, birth control.
