La Cucaracha (Spanish for The Cockroach) is a nationally syndicated daily comic strip by Lalo Alcaraz.
[1] Lalo's characters are symbolic of Latino culture in the United States, particularly from Southern California, where Alcaraz is from.
It is similar, in that manner, to Doonesbury, Candorville, The Boondocks and Prickly City (although the latter is of an opposite political persuasion).
Alcaraz satirized his hate-mailers by drawing a letter-writer pleading, "Please drop 'La Cucaracha' and bring back my favorite comic strip, 'Whitesville USA' by Aryan McCracker."
"[2] Universal Press Syndicate considered La Cucaracha an unqualified success, and signed Alcaraz to a ten-year contract.