For decades, L.A.-based cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz has been creating one-panel editorial cartoons that condense complicated political issues into straightforward images.
That’s what he did with a recent cartoon for Caló News that depicted a federal immigration agent with a block of ice for a head, on the run from a group of people screaming and protesting, and the words “ICE OUT OF LA!” superimposed.
“I think people want to feel solidarity, and I am happy to try to provide any kind of bridge, an image that brings us all together in anger… and feel like we’re not alone,” he said.
This week he finished an acrylic on canvas painting of a photo that went viral. The photo depicts a paleta (popsicle) cart on the sidewalk in a residential neighborhood. Missing: the vendor.
The paletero was detained by agents in Culver City. Alcaraz is selling prints of his painting to help the man’s family…