TuesdayAugust262008

Were you under the impression that Dora, of “The Explorer” fame, just wasn’t sexy enough to capture children’s attention and imagination? You’re not alone, SexyTeen4Real. The character is getting a makeover to make her more hot tamale, less baby...

TuesdayJanuary152008

Spanish-language network Univision is set to launch a prime-time animated version of “El Chavo del 8:” Somewhat like the first U.S. primetime English-language cartoon series, The Flintstones, which was loosely based on popular live-action series The Honeymooners, Univision’s new...

TuesdayNovember132007

Guillermo Torres and Manel Fontdevila, two Spanish cartoonists for the satirical magazine El Jueves, have been fined 3,000 euros each for offending the Spanish royal family with one of their cartoons. The comic in question, which ran on the...

FridayNovember092007

A recent article in the The New York Observer on New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s stance on immigration issues featured a cartoon of the governor riding in a convertible with what appears to be either Cheech circa “Up in...

TuesdayAugust282007

A book review in today’s Boston Globe caught our eye this morning, not only for introducing us to a Latino author we had never heard of before but for revealing that Gilbert Hernández was one of the first cartoonists...

MondayAugust272007

The above clip is a BET cartoon called “Read A Book” that uses the guise of a Public Service Announcement on the value of literacy to lampoon the misogynistic, materialistic, and gaudy aesthetic associated with rap music these days....

ThursdayAugust232007

San Antonio Express-News readers are up in arms about the paper’s recent decision to fire its conservative, Hispanic cartoonist with a 20-year tenure while keeping its liberal one. The character who gets the can along with him? Nacho Guarache,...

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