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Lauro Zarate Alcala (August 18 1926 – June 24 2002) also known as Larry Alcala was a well-known editorial cartoonist and illustrator in the Philippines.He was born on August 18 1926 to Ernesto Alcala and Elpidia Zarate in Daraga Albay. Through a scholarship from Manila Times granted by the publisher Ramón Roces he obtained a degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of the Philippines (UP) in 1950. He became a professor at the same university from 1951 to 1981.