Chagoya's art explores the layers and clashes of culture and history, using cartoons, traditional images, and time travel. In The Return of the Macrobiotic Cannibal, the artist combines Mayan and Aztec imagery, Catholic iconography, reproductions of 16th-century European engravings, ethnic stereotypes, and 20th-century cartoon superheroes in eight wildly imaginative and visually dazzling images. The print is in the form of a bark paper, accordion-folded codex, such as those made in pre-colonial Mexico.

Source: NEWS May June 1999