America’s “mass incarceration and the U.S. deportation machine are deeply intertwined,” according to Colorlines.com. “And black immigrants get swept up in both systems. A new video from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration spells it out.”
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La Cucaracha y Mas
Orbitas: In space, no one can hear you hug (video)
Down on the planet, it’s war. But for two astronauts from “enemy countries,” Orbitas is a trajectory for love. [Short video from Spanish animation school PrimeFrame.]
Can I change my name to ‘Mr. New York Times Best-Selling Author’?
I’m going to change my name to Mr. New York Times Best Selling Author Lalo Alcaraz.
OK, maybe a name-changing judge won’t agree, but the book I co-created with author Ilan Stavans has been two weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List for Graphic Books, so sue me, I’m just a little excited.
A Most Imperfect Union is the culmination of over two years of back and forth haggling, drawing, changing, hacking and exasperation, but it resulted a pretty damn fine book. It is the second book famed academic and author Ilan Stavans (Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College) and I have worked on together; the first was the very successful Latino USA: A Cartoon History of Latinos in the US.
Ilan and I could be considered an odd couple, he is a Jewish chilango academic, I am a Chicano artist from the border.
Mas…Can I change my name to ‘Mr. New York Times Best-Selling Author’?
Shocking photos expose backstage at the Wonderful World of Disney
Pop surrealist José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros goes behind the screens at the Magic Kingdom to reveal the real Disney, the Disney the Hollywood PR machine won’t let you see. His paintings are on display L.A.’s La Luz de Jesus Gallery until the end of the month. [Photos courtesy Hint Magazine.]
Mas…Shocking photos expose backstage at the Wonderful World of Disney
La Santa Cecilia picks Beatlefruit in ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ (video)
Beatle John Lennon’s song about playing in the Salvation Army’s Strawberry Fields children’s home near his casa in Liverpool becomes an animated allegory about who picks the juicy red fruits and the crop’s journey from farm to table table to farm as East Los homies La Santa Cecilia transform Strawberry Fields Forever.
Pocho Ocho rudest vanity license plates refused by the DMV
Your California Department of Motor Vehicles has standards, you know, and not every request for a personalized/vanity license plate can be accommodated, even though they still hope you’ll like them on Facebook. It’s not personal, dude, no hard feelings. K?
“Welcome to the Department of Motor Vehicles’ office of vanity plates,” SFGate.com esplains, “where three full-time state employees review some 90,000 applications for personalized license plates each year and, citing poor taste, turn down thousands.”
Here’s our list of the Pocho Ocho rudest vanity plate requests declined by the DMV:
Mas…Pocho Ocho rudest vanity license plates refused by the DMV
Political Science: How a bill becomes a law (toons, video)
Last week, the Republican-uncontrolled House of Representatives failed to pass a minimal spending bill to help with the unexpected crush of Central American refugees, adjourned, and then reconvened to approve a mean-spirited barebones measure that also would reverse President Obama’s DACA relief for DREAMers, and worse. Then they adjourned again.
Of course, the bill has no chance of passage in the Senate, let alone getting a Presidential signature.
Their obstructionist mission accomplished, the do-nothing pendejos left town for their summer hideouts in the rich white safety of their home districts.
Their Tea Party-twisted debates, however, left a lingering aroma over Capitol Hill, and it wasn’t Laspang Souchong.
SPOILER ALERT: The aroma was SHIT.
Mas…Political Science: How a bill becomes a law (toons, video)
The Gay 90s: Hot tamales on Broadway, New York City, 1894 (toon)
This cartoon, from 1894, is by Archie Dunn. The tamalero seems to be wearing a chef’s hat (?) and using a charcoal burner to keep the tamales hot. What do you think his medallion signifies? And aren’t the “Gay Nineties” couple elegant? Are they daredevils eating exotic street food or just another drunk couple with the munchies, hanging out at the food truck of the era?
Image courtesy the New York Public Library.
PREVIOUSLY ON TAMALES:
Mas…The Gay 90s: Hot tamales on Broadway, New York City, 1894 (toon)
Want to save the planet? All the cool Mayans ride bikes (toon)
PREVIOUSLY ON MAYANS AND AZTECS AND OLMECS, OH MY:
Mas…Want to save the planet? All the cool Mayans ride bikes (toon)
I’m MAD about SDCC because I saw Sergio Aragones (photo,toon,video)
Here he is, my old amigo, comics legend Sergio Aragones, at SDCC Sunday.
He is the world’s fastest and funniest cartoonist, and a really nice guy!
Mas…I’m MAD about SDCC because I saw Sergio Aragones (photo,toon,video)
Nothing in this video is original, except the video: ‘Not Mine’
Creator Guy Trefler writes:
Not Mine is my graduate project in Graphic Design at the HIT college in Israel. My thesis is that nothing is original, therefore, none of the materials presented in the project were made by me. All of the 469 photos used in this video were taken out of Google’s image bank.
La Cucaracha: Murrieta, CA is concerned for the kids (toon)
In case you missed it, the “crisis manager” hired by Murrieta doesn’t much like my cartoons or my use of the Twitter hashtag #MurrietaHateCityUSA.
Ken White, of the most excellent PopeHat blog has the story:
Mas…La Cucaracha: Murrieta, CA is concerned for the kids (toon)
