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Truth – La Vérité – comes out of her well to shame Mankind (1896 toon)
Truth coming from the well, armed with her whip, to chastise mankind is an 1896 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as La Vérité (French: Truth).
POCHO HISTORY 101: The invention of sour cream (toon)
- More great toons from Jake Likes Onions here!
What do Mexicans think of Donald Trump? (toon)
[This cartoon graces the cover of the current issue of The Salt Lake City Weekly. Read The Weekly’s cover story here.]
WATCH: Betty Boop for President: ¡Competent and sane!
Made of pen and ink, she can win you with a wink. Ain’t she cute? Boop-Boop-a-Doop. Sweet Betty!
Betty Boop for President is a musical Fleischer Studios cartoon from 1932. Betty’s campaign promises a better, caring tomorrow, while her evil opponent Mr. Nobody blatantly offers a mess of malarkey to potential voters. Make sure to listen for FDR’s famous 1932 campaign song and don’t miss the miracle of the convict in the electric chair. Betty Boop for President! Also, beer.
The Offenders: A new comic strip that ticks everyone off (toon)
The Perry Bible Fellowship ran weekly in many newspapers between 2004 and 2007, including The New York Press, The Baltimore City Paper, and The Guardian in the U.K. During that time, it also won the Ignatz, Harvey, and Eisner awards. In 2007, I stopped doing the comic strip on a weekly basis. It now updates wheneverly — Nicholas Gurewitch
Mas…The Offenders: A new comic strip that ticks everyone off (toon)
This is a test of the emergency bugpest system (toon)
In the event of an actual emergency tune your device to a bugpest near you. [Image via the Internet, original artist unknown. Hella thanks, however!]
Jesus is cool but Guadalupe is better (toon)
This brand new toon (yesterday!) is by artist Gustavo Abascal. We had to make a square “thumbnail” for layout purposes on the home page, but don’t be scared, the full image is here:
He starts out sketchy, then he turns into ‘Quite A Character’ (video)
“This is my draw…. Is a rebel guy that want to be a real portrait, and not a cartoon, but I don’t listen his petition, I only play with him and I bother him. Then my character avenge. | Éste es mi dibujo…. Es un chico rebelde que quiere ser un retrato real, y no una caricatura, pero yo no escucho su petición, solo juego con él y lo molesto. Luego mi personaje se venga.”
— Neyra Reyes
CholoWizard Graffiti: How to draw a cholo (video)
Artist WIZARD demonstrates how to draw a cholo. We especially like the attention to detail shown in the facial tear-drop tattoo and the Nike “swoosh.”
You have been warned: The Jefe-in-Chief will be at Comic-Con (video)
POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz is leaving Rancho Pocho in East Los to return his Olde Home Towne of San Diego this weekend for Comic-Con 2012. This video shows and tells how he plans to roll. Lalo’s site has the deets.
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 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 …
