Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for May 30, 2021

ah, the high school yearbook… how memorable

heh I would have liked to see Mary and Jennifer interact with the group more..

I’m grateful that there was no global pandemic when I was in school

While I enjoy seeing Mary Cywood some editor needs to tell the poor girl she’s out of alphabetical order.

In 30 years of teaching high school, I’ve never had a year quite like the 2020-2021 school year. Glad it’s over, and glad none of my students or colleagues died from Covid.

Our school didn’t even get a yearbook—they’re still working on a digital one.

I lost my high school yearbook decades ago. On a whim, I searched and found a copy on eBay. And it sure was a strange trip, flipping though those pages and seeing those faces again.

Nice that the one who wrote she knows things will get better is named Esperanza. Hope.

It’s sweet that Esperanza lives up to her name!

Does anyone really ever look at a yearbook again?

Does anyone know if Mary, William and Jennifer are the names of actual people that Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos know?

Is Baldo a senior? Is he actually graduating and going on to college? Or is this one of those yearbooks that has pictures from every class, to increase sales? (In my day only the senior class bought yearbooks.)

I haven’t followed this strip long enough to know if the characters age in real (or even comic-strip) time.

I still have my college’s yearbook from 1982, and I also have one from 1959, the year I was born. The strange part is that I went to college in Queens, NY, where I grew up, but I found the 1959 yearbook in a used bookstore in the Boston area.

In school, you’re taught the answers and then given a test. In life, you’re given tests that teaches you the answers.

How did Mary Cywood get there, though?

I love this comic— probably my favorite Baldo ever, and I’ve been reading for years! It’s all so true about yearbooks and COVID and the attitudes I see from schoolkids of various ages. I’d probably buy this one

Why is Cywood before Bailey? And no wonder Esperanza wrote a message like that.