Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for April 10, 2021

oh, Baldo, you don’t say

I feel the same way about greeting cards

to Baldo: AAAAAAAHHHHHHH….. POW! SHADDAP!!!!!!!

If you enjoy irony (I do) this is wonderful. And I’m guessing at some of the strips that are having fun poked at them.

Meta Baldo

Like the Sunday “Sally Forth” which sometimes has so many words I won’t bother to read it.

I would read that comic but it has too many words in it.

If there aren’t words how do you “read” a comic?

I personally need words in my comics or i can’t follow the comic as i am really, really, really, poor at picking up on visual cues in comics and even worse in the real world.

I am also laughter deficient. i can see or read something that i know is funny or is intended to illicit a laugh, but without hearing someone else’s laughter I only react with a brief smile at most.

Verbose, yet vapid, sonny boy.

Just lost me!

sometimes a lot of words are needed to express feelings towards someone or something that affects them emotionally / physically; other times not.

I bet the hidden analogy here goes over most people’s head.

In his outrage Baldo has become the very thing that he’s so upset about. That’s become the true outcome of all the Political and Social arguments that keep us separated over minor disagreements.

Really well done comic-does a great job of making the point with gentle humor. Thanks.

Dahl Mikkelson, creator of “Ferd’nand,” did well with NO words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKmh_jWC5c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYWyFQO3a0A

Brevity is usually the better policy in most every communication…….

“Show Me” with Julie Andrews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R_lv6_5Mvg

TLDR

I remember Bill Watterson often did Calvin and Hobbes strips bemoaning the fact that comics had gotten so small that the artist couldn’t really do much with their drawings. If you look at comics from the early 1900s, they were huge, with lots of room to show very detailed drawings. But times have changed.

A Screed!

Too many words. Bored before I could finish reading it. Not enough art work. Hector and Carlos must need a vacation.

I learned what “screed” means, so thank you.

Does anyone remember R. Crumb doing this in the 60’s?

… And so, as Baldo slowly sinks into the west…

You go, Baldo!

Some felt like this over the classic EC comics. But I dug it.

Less is more…

A sad effect of the Dumbing down of America.

Too many people can no longer remember the Beginning of a sentence by the time the speaker gets to the End of the sentence, thanks to Television’s love affair with the Sound Bite.

If you think you talk to much, we can always talk about it.

I think what we may have here is a continuing discussion between Hector and Carlos!

TLDR