I cartoon because I got tired of feeling excluded from the comic stage. - Lalo Alcaraz

It’s what we do as cartoonists, to cut through the [bull] and expose it.

I'm just a guy who was predisposed to be a cartoonist, who happened to make it through all the bullshit that comes with being poor and brown.

And I eventually — when I went to Berkeley, which is where I got my masters in architecture, there I met other Chicanos that wanted to do sketch comedy, wanted to make music, wanted to write comedy. And we, of course, aggregated, and that’s when I realized, wow, this is what I was meant to be doing.