Andrew Zermeño

Andrew Zermeño (born 1935) is an American cartoonist from Salinas, California. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was the art director and cartoonist for the Chicano/a labor newspaper El Malcriado.

Life Zermeño was born in 1935 to a working-class Mexican-American family in Salinas, California. When Chavez established El Malcriado in 1964, he brought Zermeño on as the cartoonist. The cartoons featured the iconic characters of Don Sotaco, the farm worker; Don Coyote, the contractor; and El Patroncito, the grower. Zermeño also created strike posters and calendars for the union. In 1971, he returned to Los Angeles to work as a freelance illustrator, and he retired in 1998.