Line #49 ComicStrip/Baldo


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4	''Baldo'' is a [[NewspaperComics newspaper comic]] written by Hector Cantu and drawn by Carlos Castellanos.
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6	The comic centers around the title character, Baldomero "Baldo" Bermudez, a Hispanic teenager who works at an auto parts store and dreams of one day owning a [[CoolCar lowrider]]. Other main characters include Baldo's little sister Gracie, his widower father Sergio, his great-aunt Tia Carmen, and his best friend and SideKick Cruz.
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8	The comic is kind of like a Latino version of ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', with maybe a little bit of ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' thrown in for good measure.
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10	Got a animated series for a little bit, but only on Telemundo and in Spanish. If you've never heard of it, it only lasted a season and ''extremely'' [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes hard to find any footage of nowadays]].
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13	!!This strip contains examples of:
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15	* AbortedArc: In April 2009, Baldo was promoted to assistant manager at Auto Y Rod. This was never mentioned again.
16	* AnimatedAdaptation: There was a ''Baldo'' cartoon made for Spanish-language television.
17	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Gracie has a tendency to be a know-it-all to Baldo as well as trying to be right, so the two get in constant arguments.
18	* ArtShift: On occasion, the style changes from cartoony to photorealistic (sometimes even in the same strip), especially during a mood change. However, it always eventually changes back to cartoony. One art shift featured a professional comic book artist illustrating one of Baldo's superhero fantasies.
19	%%* AuthorTract: The storylines about illegal immigration, lottery scams, and others.
20	* {{Balloonacy}}: Sergio tried this in his youth. The balloons raised him and his lawnchair just as high as his first-story window, which the wind immediately smacked him into, breaking it and knocking him off the chair and into a thorny rosebush.
21	* BettyAndVeronica: An arc in August 2012 introduced the love triangle of Baldo/Beatriz/Estella, with Beatriz as the Betty and Estella as the Veronica to Baldo's Archie.
22	* ChildProdigy: Gracie is very intelligent for a girl her age.
23	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
24	** Sylvia Sanchez, who was Baldo's crush (and potential love interest) until he hooked up with Smiley. Sylvia hasn't been heard from since, even after Baldo broke up with Smiley.
25	** Smiley herself fits this trope as well: she hasn't been seen or mentioned since 2006.
26	%%* ComicBookTime: {{Lampshaded}} in [[http://john.seikdel.net/gocomics.php?date=070108&comic=ba one strip]].
27	%%* CoolOldLady: Tia Carmen, on occasion.
28	%%* CrossOver: With ''ComicStrip/{{Yenny}}''.
29	* DeadPersonConversation: Tia Carmen has had a few conversations with her dead husband.
30	* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: When Baldo is introduced to his new co-worker Beatriz.
31	-->'''Mr. Rod''': Baldo, this is Beatriz. She's new here so you'll be training her.\
32	'''Baldo''': Training her to love me. [[MediumAwareness ...Sorry, that was supposed to be a thought bubble.]]
33	* DreadfulMusician: In one story arc, Gracie learns how to play the guitar and sing some traditional Spanish songs, but as it turns out, she's not very gifted in playing the guitar or singing in any way.
34	%%* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Spanish rather than French; used [[http://john.seikdel.net/gocomics.php?date=060502&comic=ba here]], though [[spoiler:they broke up the following week.]]
35	%%* GirlNextDoor: Smiley, literally. And Baldo's co-worker Beatriz (though not literally).
36	* GratuitousSpanish:
37	** Sergio and Carmen use Spanish phrases frequently; and to a lesser extent, Baldo and Gracie do as well.
38	** As did Smiley, who watched Spanish television and picked up the language.
39	--->'''Smiley:''' So what are you doing ''sábado''? Anything ''[[ShoutOut gigante]]''?
40	* GuestStrip:
41	** Dave Alvarez of ''ComicStrip/{{Yenny}}'' guest-drew [[http://john.seikdel.net/gocomics.php?date=091018&comic=ba a Sunday comic]], then contributed artwork for the rest of the week, leading to a canon CrossOver between ''Yenny'' and ''Baldo''.
42	** Lela Lee of ''Angry Little Girls'' also drew a few strips, under the pretext that she was a girl Gracie met on the playground who showed her her drawings.
43	* HighSchool: Baldo attends high school, so it's a frequent setting for the comic.
44	* LogicalFallacies: The RecurringCharacter Billy, who is subconsciously predjudicial, and thinks that Hispanic people are discriminating against ''him''.
45	* MissingMom: Sergio's wife, Rosa, who died in a car accident.
46	* MoodWhiplash:
47	** Jumping from light humor to a photorealistic Tia Carmen talking to a mustachioed stranger about Rosa's car accident, then back to light humor.
48	** Smiley's EvilMakeover also fits. The first two strips in the arc are set up to look like she and Baldo genuinely miss each other, followed, two days later, with her becoming [[AlphaBitch popular and stuck-up]].
49	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Baldo (short for Baldomero), Gracie (short for Graciela), Cruz, and Smiley.
50	%%* PeekABogeyman: El Cucuy, the family bogeyman.
51	%%* PintSizedKid: Gracie.
52	* PutOnABusToHell: Smiley. After her "evil makeover" and rise to popularity in high school, making her a far cry from the girl next door that she was, she was never seen again.
53	* RefugeInAudacity: One story arc featured the family going through Colorado, and they were surprised at how everything was burned and smoking - which was even run in newspapers ''right'' as Colorado was in national news for wildfires. They got away with it.
54	* ShoutOut: To Gus Arriola's comic strip ''Gordo'', by way of Tia Carmen [[{{flashback}} flashing back]] to a meeting with the titular character of said comic.
55	* SideKick: Cruz.
56	%%%%* TheSlacker: Joey and Billy.
57	%%* StrawFeminist: Gracie, sometimes.
58	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Beatriz, who seems to have taken the place of both Sylvia and Smiley.
59	* TaughtByTelevision:
60	** In one arc, Baldo met an immigrant named Humberto, who learned English and fashion sense from Creator/{{MTV}}. Baldo also met Humberto's brothers, who learned the same things from ''Series/GilligansIsland'' and ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies''.
61	** Smiley learned Spanish from watching Spanish TV.
62	* UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: The 2007 April Fools strip, which was Tia Carmen suddenly being arrested by ICE. And that's it. No jokes, just an old woman being dragged out of her home by government agents while her family looks on helplessly.
63	* WillTheyOrWontThey: They've been dragging out Beatriz and Baldo since about 2005 or so. {{Justified\|Trope}} since it's not the focus of the strip (and Beatriz had a boyfriend for a few years), but sometimes the comic can go a year between strips that show that Baldo really likes Beatriz, or vice versa.
64	* YourFavorite: Tia Carmen tells Baldo she made his favorite potatoes.

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