Cactus Gallery LA
37 EL MUNDO (The World) by artist Lalo Alcaráz
$ 500.00
Acrylic on canvas, 9 x 12"
Also shown here is the original Don Clemente Gallo card for EL MUNDO.
Note: the No. 37 usually on the card was changed to a No. 26 in honor of the 2026 World Cup.
The riddle associated with this image:
Este mundo es una bola, y nosotros un bolón.
This world is a ball, and we a great mob. (A pun: bola can mean both "ball, sphere" and "crowd, mob", bolón is a superlative with the latter meaning).
The riddle associated with this image:
Este mundo es una bola, y nosotros un bolón.
This world is a ball, and we a great mob. (A pun: bola can mean both "ball, sphere" and "crowd, mob", bolón is a superlative with the latter meaning).
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Lalo Alcaraz is a cartoonist most known for being the author of the comic La Cucaracha, the first nationally syndicated, politically themed Latino daily comic strip launched in 2002.
A leading figure in the Chicano movement, Lalo formerly contributed political cartoons for LA Weekly from 1992 - 2010. He co-hosts a radio show on KPFK called the "Pocho Hour of Power" and he is the "Jefe-in-Chief" of POCHO.COM, a website specializing in "News y Satire."
Browse more of Lalo's work for us: https://cactusgalleryla.com/search?q=Lalo+Alcaraz
