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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
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him to be a hero in his newest
movie. Battlefield Earth.
“I play a pretty bad guy,” Tra
volta told 10,000 people at a pro
motional gathering of science fic
tion fans this weekend. “Today, I
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