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The Battalion Classified Advertising • Easy • Affordable • Effective For information, call 345-0569 The College of Architecture and Blue Sky Studios present If Bun AGGIELIFE Page 6 THE BATTALION Monday, i* f Ttoiti Whitfef and Kevin Thomason, two of six Former Studr l* .\SW*\^Tu<tlizMtion Sciem-Q program who worked on the produ^^^^^ VJ7unnT^*viil he present atl^e scmtping to discuss ihe’creatTorfz Oscar winning digital film. 7:30pm Monday April 17\ New syndicated comic strij to feature Hispanic characti day April 17 There’s a reason we’re the #1 MCAT course. Why do more students choose Kaplan MCAT than all other prep courses combined? Is it our expert teachers?...Convenient class schedules?...Comprehensive review materials and up-to-date practice MCATs?...Could it be our online MCAT topical tests available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Answer: All of the above. DALLAS (AI*) — Baldo, the subject of a new nationally syndicated comic strip that debuts Monday, is like a lot of teenagers: 1 le longs to be noticed by the prettiest girl in school. I le enjoys a good game of soccer. And he is building his very own car. I le is also Latino. And the car he is piecing together is a low-rider. Cartoons depicting mostly Hispanic characters are rare. “There certainly has been a dearth of strips in that area. It is something we have been looking for and when we saw Baldo, we knew it was the one," said Lee Salem, vice president and editor of Uni versal Press Syndicate, which is launch ing the strip in English and Spanish ver sions in nearly 100 newspapers. Only three other Universal Press Syndicate comics have started out with higher numbers, Salem said. “For Better or For Worse." “Calvin & I lobbes” and “The Boondocks.” “It's a combination of defined mar ket need and a good strip with charac ters that have a lot of humor potential," Salem said. The daily cartoon is written by Hec tor Cantu, an assistant features editor at The Dallas Morning News, and draw n by Carlos Castellanos, a free-lance artist from West Palm Beach, Fla. Cantu said he had w anted to create a cartoon since he began reading Mad “Lii tino super!teroes have come and gone, but as far as comic strips, there was never a Latino family like this — Hector Cantu Comic strip author magazine as a child. I le said he found lit tle that resembled his own Mexican- American heritage in the cartoon books and comic pages. “Latino superheroes have come and gone, but as far as comic strips, there was never a Latino family like this as I was growing up." Cantu said. Cantu knew Castellanos from his contributions to Hispanic Business magazine in Santa Barbara, Calif., w here Cantu once worked. They have never met. but communicate by email and telephone. Baldo is about 14 and lives between the sometimes-conflicting intluence U.S. home and Latin American The strip has a strong fai but no mother. "Having just w ill help us focus on the relatii tw een father and son," Cantu sail The female influence on comes from little sister Grade, willed rebel who campaigns to a I arth, and great aunt TiaCarmea forces Old World ways remedies on the family. Baldo's just called Dad. While the creators drew their own life experiences to crat strip Baldo’s physical feature* modeled after Castellanos’ haft they said the strip’s storylines teen-age dilemmas and familyc tion appeal to readers of all ethnic: "It certainly brings a newpercy into the comic strip pages,”Castei. said. "But there is nothing in the® other people can’t relate to.” Charles Fricksen, editor founder of Hispanic LinkNeus \iccs. believes the i.irlooiisUa,;. *1X7/3 L ▼ V*- w ithout stereotypes. 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