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La Cucaracha y Mas
I’m Popeye, the (Realistic) Sailor Man! (video)
In a world where chivalry and chemistry collide, Popeye the Sailor Man’s quest for true love with Olive Oyl faces an enemy even stronger than Bluto.
A tale told by an idiot, full of sound, fury and selfies (video)
He’s Mr. Selfie. He lives in London and apparently sleeps alone. Does he resemble anyone you know?
Prickly City by Scott Stantis: Maybe we’re in the wrong hood (toon)
Chicago cartoon star Scott Stantis, creator of Prickly City, had changing demographics (and gentrification?) on his mind when he drew and wrote this two years ago:
For those of you who may not recognize the characters with Winslow and Carmen, they are from the comic strip La Cucaracha by my friend, Lalo Alcaraz.
Watch this thrilling vintage video game mashup: ‘Contra vs Tetris’
Contra is just trying to get through his day, ya know, and it’s hard enough without pinche Tetris blocks dropping from the sky. What’s a poor action hero to do? [2010 video from those rock-n-roll Rooski revolutionaries @ Red Medusa Studios. Don’t stare at the Medusa, whatever you do.]
Reies Lopez Tejerina, One of the Chicano Movement’s Four Horsemen
Reies Lopez Tijerina? Read the obituary of this controversial activist by our friend Russ Contreras of Associated Press.
‘Charlie Hebdo’ is publishing millions of these today (cover cartoon)
“All is forgiven,” says the weeping Prophet Mohammed on the cover of the first post-massacre issue of Charlie Hebdo. “I am Charlie,” reads the sign.
Read more at The Washington Post.
Ramiro Gomez: This Golden Globe is for ‘the little people’… (toon)
Our amigo artist Ramiro Gomez writes:
For the many who were not thanked Sunday night, for those that help keep the Hollywood engine running steadily, behind the scenes: Congratulations!
[10 x 12 in. Acrylic on magazine advertisement. 2015.]
[Editor’s Note: Ramiro names all his subjects. For best performance using a leafblower…*drum roll*….AURELIO!]
Nothing to kill or die for: #CharlieHebdo editorial meeting (2006 video)
The New York Times was in Paris in 2006 and video’d an editorial meeting at Charlie Hebdo magazine, as the staff brain-stormed a special Mohammed issue.
Pat Boone sings ‘Speedy Gonzales, Why Don’t You Come Home?’ (video)
America’s favorite nice clean young white boy, Pat Boone, had a 1962 hit with this love-sick appeal to our hero, Mexico’s fastest mouse. “Speedy Gonzales, Why Don’t You Come Home?” he asks.
In this video, a fan mashes up a Warner Bros. Speedy cartoon with Boone’s music.
Speedy, of course, is voiced by the great Mel Blanc.
Mas…Pat Boone sings ‘Speedy Gonzales, Why Don’t You Come Home?’ (video)
Yo Dawg: I heard you hate people drawing your prophet (toon)
[Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story included a Norman Rockwell spoof from 2010’s “Draw Mohammed Day.” With the death of the cartoon killers in Paris, we decided to replace the cartoon with an image that may or may not be a target. #satirematters]
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Mas…Yo Dawg: I heard you hate people drawing your prophet (toon)