Comic strips are a funny thing. The best ones, well, the ones I like, are filled with irony and not always funny. But comic strips are very personal, affecting different readers in dissimilar ways.

Re Lalo Alcaraz’s La Cucaracha comic strip of May 2: This was both inappropriate and offensive and should not be featured in a “family-friendly” newspaper’s comics section. Alcaraz’s La Cucaracha ...

Born in 1932, just before the Great Depression hit, Maureen Flores was the daughter of Mexican immigrants Francisco and Delores Guzman. Although married (to Eustacio Flores Sr.) and the mother of ...

Lalo Alcaraz, named by Mi Ciudad Magazine as “Best Latino Cartoonist in Los Angeles,” and creator of Pocho Magazine as well as comic strip “La Cucaracha,” the first nationally-syndicated, ...

Sonoma-based playwright J. Lynn Jackson’s latest piece, ‘La Cucaracha’ is debuting at the Play Ground San Francisco’s Free-Play Festival. When writing his latest play, J. Lynn Jackson broke two of his ...

Charlene Simms remembers when she first opened the pages of La Cucaracha. It was 1981, when she and her husband had just moved to Pueblo to be closer to family and in search of opportunity. They ...

We’re willing to bet racist lawyer Aaron Schlossberg didn’t expect to see a mariachi band protesting outside his home Friday. In case you missed it, Schlossberg was caught on camera spewing hate ...

They came. They strummed. They taught Aaron Schlossberg a lesson. A mariachi band led scores of protesters in a chorus of ‘La Cucaracha (The Cockroach) Friday evening outside the Manhattan home of the ...