El Mechudo & His Pinche Bad Boy Compadres

 June 13, 2021

   I found a packet of collected scratchboards that my curator, Kristi Jacobs, has compiled under the simple heading of "Vaquero Series" and I thought a couple of them needed a little more work and when I was working on them, names just popped into my head.

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"El Mechudo (The Hairy One)"

A Yaqui

Daily Whip Out:

"El Grunidor (The Snarler)"

Daily Whip Out: "Emiliano"

Daily Whip Outs:

"Rooster & His No Good Cousin Tuti"

"Love is blind but not the neighbors."

—Tuti Alvarado

Daily Whip Out:

"Tom Horn The Cowboy Scout"

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"That Dang Dude Was Out of His Skull!"

"To the mob, everything is a lie."

—Old Vaquero Saying