Cartoons
La Cucaracha y Mas
Captain Pocho vs the Red Skull, wicked witch of the Southwest (toon)
Captain Pocho vs the Red Skull (aka Jan Brewer) Just thought I’d draw something for POCHO regarding the SB1070 ruling for this Fourth of July weekend. As a Chicano comic book nerd and artist, this is the best way for me to strike back against the Wicked Witch of the Southwest.
Gabriel Tellez Jr. is the vato behind The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan, serialized this Spring on POCHO.
Latino workers leap ONTO the pages of glossy magazines *UPDATED
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UPDATE: Ramiro Gomez on NPR: 6/29/2012: Click here.
West Hollywood artist Ramiro “Jay” Gomez Jr. – the guy who inserts cardboard paintings of immigrant laborers into the real landscape of Los Angeles – also paints them onto glossy magazine photos. Meet fresh uploads Nemesio at the end of his workday and Ofelia taking a break. Gomez’s Happy Hills blog is here.
When you can’t bear life without nachos, you need nachos tattoos
Some people can’t get through the morning with a cup of coffee, and others, apparently, can’t get through the day without delicious crunchy oozing-with-queso nachos:
We love nachos. Duh. We want to show it on our arms, legs, and face. Stains are not permanent enough, while permanent tattoos are against our religions.
So they made temporary nachos “tattoo” decals.
Would you get them? Wear them?
Thanks to BoingBoing for the link!
On the Internet, cats + Aztlan = Caztlan of course (illustrations)
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On the Internet, where kittehs are king, how can an activist vato get the same attention as a cute little gato? With an activist cat, of course. See the full-sized images by San Francisco artist Rio Yanez right here:
Mas…On the Internet, cats + Aztlan = Caztlan of course (illustrations)
The Misadventures of Pepito and Juan 1.15
Pepito continues the blame game, but Juan doesn’t want to hear it…
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?