My pal Sergio made a guest appearance in yesterday's installment of the La Cucaracha newspaper strip. The idea is that one of the characters in the strip, Memo, is working at the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Awards event in Kansas City, and he sees Sergio there. As it happens, the Reuben Awards get-together is taking place this weekend in Kansas City…but Sergio is not attending this year.