La Cucaracha

By Lalo Alcaraz

Book Overview

An anthropomorphic hipster cockroach is on the cutting-edge of American comic-strip humor. La Cucaracha (aka Cuco Rocha) and his pals voice the concerns and observations of the Latino-American community with an edgy, insightful wit.

Through La Cucaracha, creator Lalo Alcaraz makes blunt social commentary both hard-hitting and hilarious. The result is not just a pleasure, but also a craving. The strong undercurrent of modern Latino themes and issues adds a sharp layer of meaning to the humor. In one strip, an immigrant bartender has listened to two customers rant, ""I'm telling ya, there's too many immigrants pouring into this country."" When one of the customers asks for another drink the bartender declares, ""I'm an immigrant, and guess what? I'm not pouring ""

This first of perceptive La Cucaracha humor will delight and gratify all audiences that appreciate intelligent, progressive, deeply amusing comics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740746596
• ISBN13: 9780740746598
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent view of American diversity

Lalo Alcaraz's La Cucaracha is an excellent view of American diversity. With humor and irony, Alcaraz exposes issues relevant to Mexican-Americans, a group that is as AMERICAN as anybody else, since they were on American soil since even before the United States existed as such, but have been discriminated for a long time. At times, the reader can feel the anger of Alcaraz (who is of Mexican descent himself), and that seems to upset some of his readers. I recommend this work to anyone interested in American issues, especially Chicano, diversity or multicultural studies.