Cartoons
La Cucaracha y Mas
#WeCallBS! POCHO readers #STANDwithEMMA (photos)
We asked POCHO readers — on Twitter and IG and Facebook — to send in selfies with the Lalo Alcaraz EMMA GONZALEZ poster (she approves, by the way — see below) and here is what we got.
La Cucaracha: Janet Air, secret Area 51 airline, needs flight attendants
[EDITOR’S NOTE:Janet Air? Huh? Click here to learn more.]
United States of America scores another gold medal! (toon)
[Payton Hoegh toons regularly at Weekly Political dot com.]
Dotard Trump, ‘Our Cartoon President’ (video from Stephen Colbert)
Can the President revive his low approval ratings by delivering the greatest State of the Union speech in history? And what about his relationship with First Lady Melania?
PREVIOUSLY ON ESTEBAN COLBERTO
Mas…Dotard Trump, ‘Our Cartoon President’ (video from Stephen Colbert)
Stereotyped Mexican bandido says ‘Prepare to die, amigo’ (toon)
Sometimes you think your job is done — after all, having written a book that attempted to chronicle the history of “Mexicans” in American popular culture, you think you’d get a break.
But, of course, that’s naive.
If anything, in the age of our Dumpster Fire POTUS, Mexican stereotypes are the rage! This MAMMOTH WESTERN “Mexican” is Exhibit #1 — if you ever wonder why you can’t turn on the TV (or your streaming, throbbing thingie in your pocket, your phone!) without seeing a narco, well, meet his grandpappy, the inspiration for Trump’s BAD HOMBRE racist,xenophobic slur.
You can buy this 1949 comic for under $100!
- Professor William “Memo” Nericcio is a regular contributor to POCHO and an all-around swell guy, or so we’ve heard.