About AlDesmadre
Al Guerrero, Artist/Humorist. Los Angeles, CA.
Born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico and raised in East Los Angeles from the age of two, Al Guerrero grew up just steps from the famous Chicano strip, Whittier Boulevard. His youth experiences include witnessing and participating in the 1970 Chicano Power demonstrations, cruising cars on Whittier Boulevard, and graduating from Garfield High School. After dropping out of UCLA (with honors), he drew upon his lifelong passion for art and cartooning and pursued a career in graphic arts. During this period, he traveled overseas and found artistic inspiration from the masterworks he discovered within the European Art Museums. His career blossomed when he was eventually hired by the Walt Disney Company in 1995, where he worked as a creative artist for a number of years. Although the artistic work was rewarding, he eventually grew weary & disillusioned with the bureaucracy of the entertainment business, and left to work briefly in the educational field.
His credits include producing a feature film with actor, Conrad Brooks of Ed Wood fame, founding and performing with the Punk Rock group “The Psychocats†at numerous L.A. & Hollywood venues during the 1990’s, and in 1999 he founded and created a hell-bent puppet cabaret show aptly named: “The Puppets from Hellâ€. As a long time active member of the Los Angeles Cacophony Society, Al “Quaedaâ€, as he was known, was involved in countless Cacophony Society pranks and events throughout the city. He also produced the “Incredibly Strange Cinema†cult film series as well as themed events such as the now infamous “Pornothon Movie Nights†and the satirical “Mexican Night: Noche De Tequila & Putas†shows at local nightclub venues. Throughout his art career, he has exhibited his canvas paintings at various local galleries, and has also written & illustrated numerous comic strips and Graphic Novel stories.
Today, he lives in Silver Lake, California and works as a freelance artist and writer with numerous multi-media projects under his belt and in the works. His personal hobbies include collecting vintage toys and comic books, cinema history and Los Angeles City history.
Contact: alguerrero@earthlink.net
Al Guerrero
P.O. Box 29697
Los Angeles, CA 90029-0697
www.alguerrero.com
Myspace.com/thepuppetsfromhell
Eddie Murphy he used to be funny and then I don’t know it just got old. He had all of that money and what do we get a show about people in the projects, him dressing up like a caricature of black women and just in my opinion a sad legacy. I would rather not be represented on TV at all than have anything Eddie Murphy would provide.
I like the Boondocks, but maybe I’m not being fair. Eddie Murphy has a completely different background than Aaron McGruder. I guess I wouldn’t mind Eddie so much if more political and smarter people of color were given wider exposure.
The reason I don’t like Eddie Murphy is because people think that’s it to black culture (that would include everyone even many black people,) that shows like the PJs and Good Times is the real black culture and anything different than that is not really black or something that is black can’t just be American.
And to me its like this show if it were viewed as American culture I would be ok with it, but I know it’s not. It’s viewed as specific people who live in America.
Its like that show Avenue Q it was some parts of it that were funny, but it seemed to be pushing forward certain stereotypes and the idea of “other”. I don’t really like it though I do find it funny in small doses.
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Don’t remember the PJ’S sorry!!, But I do remember the “Bannana Splits”, “Johnny Quest”, “The Billy Barty” show, I appeared on that show once,(when he asks children in the audience”What kind of animal would you like to be?”)and why.
I answered that “I would like to be a bird, so I could sit on top of City Hall”!and look down on the city!! My Mom took me downtown to Bullock’s or some similar store in the 60’s to see an appearance by “Hobo Kelly”!! What memories!!! Who rembers “Wonderama”?
Holy hell, this show was genius. I remember liking it for the witty writing, sarcasm and honesty. It reminds me of the mid-90s TGIF show Dinosaurs.