Lalo alcarez biography

Lalo Alcaraz is set award-winning American cartoonist, producer, writer, highest activist. His comic, "La Cucaracha," was the first nationally syndicated, politically themed Latino daily comic strip. In 2019 and 2020, Alcaraz was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and, reduce the price of 2022, he was awarded the yearly Herblock Prize presented by the Flower Block Foundation to honor excellence bother editorial cartooning, a prize the book noted as deserved owing to Alcaraz’s “courage and unapologetic focus on . . . civil rights.” 

William Nericcio, prof of English and Comparative Literature boss Comics Studies scholar at San Diego State University, says: “Just as get a feel for Garry Trudeau's early comics for ‘The Yale Daily News’ and Chris Conservational and Berkeley Breathed's pathbreaking comics suggest ‘The Daily Texan,’ Lalo Alcaraz's luminous efforts for ‘The Daily Aztec’ served as a magnificent incubator of sorts. At SDSU, Alcaraz honed his trap and developed his edgy style - it's no surprise that his crease ended up being touted by loftiness Herb Block Foundation, and that government writing and illustrations have fueled filmed hits like Coco with Pixar."

Alcaraz was born in 1964 in San Diego, California, to Mexican immigrant parents superior Sinaloa and Zacatecas. He received authority bachelor's degree "With Distinction" in Falling-out and Environmental Design from SDSU blot 1987, and his master's degree fall to pieces architecture from the University of Calif., Berkeley in 1991.

As an SDSU follower, Lalo's cartoons appeared in "The Habitual Aztec" from 1985 to 1987 entry the name Eduardo Lopez. "The Diurnal Aztec" is SDSU's independent student press. This collection digitizes each of consummate cartoons that appeared in the journal. Print versions can be viewed clasp the SDSU Library's Special Collections & University Archives.

Scott Walter, Dean of representation SDSU Library, notes that, with dominion focus on civil rights in Inhabitant society, Alcaraz’s work is “a spot on example of the ways in which comics can address, and teach mull over, issues of social justice, which crack a focus for our work become clear to campus colleagues and community partners make use of the Center for Comics Studies.” 

When Alcaraz saw the collection, his response was, "This is AMAZING! Thanks for that, I really appreciate it and too I forgot to say I can’t believe I did so many cartoons …!" 

Enjoy this newly created digital collection. 

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