Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for October 27, 2017

So much for making an investment.

At least check with eBay before you toss them !!! and PS: have you seen what they did to Wonder Woman?

Its fiction … seriously, if you can´t take entertainment for what it is, and have to be so serious you got bigger issues to attend to.

There’s a very important message in today’s strip. :) Thank you, Carlos and Hector

Tue Elung-Jensen

Those comics were (and are) written for children. Many children that may not have met a person from another ethnicity.

By definition, children are still learning what reality IS.

And those comics may have been their first impression about people from another ethnicity (or even their own ethnicity).

So Mr / Ms. “If you can´t take entertainment for what it is”

Knowing “What it is” only comes after a lot of experience, also known as growing up into an adult.

Deleting history doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It would be better to take those old items and donate them to a collection so people know how real these issues were at the time.

To appreciate where you are, you need to know where you’ve been. Those old comic books could have served as a teaching tool.

I thought that I had subscribed to GoComics, not the editorial page.

I just finished cataloguing a comic collection that I’ve been compiling since the mid-60’s. Please, for the sake of Baldo’s family and collectors everywhere, let them SELL that collection to someone and make some $$ – they can even choose to use that money to help forge NEW comics that feature updated modern takes that overcome the negative stereotypes!

I still think it looks like Vincent Price on the cover.

‘Cartoon Evil’ abounds in the world, today. It is fairly easy to spot. the REAL EVIL exists in the people and institutions that ‘recognize’ it, but don’t say anything for fear of offending!

I miss the Frito Bandito.

And yet, ironically, that’s how they choose to portray Baldo half the time.

Burn ‘em baby! That’s the way of today. No reminders of the past!

That is unless they’re Andy Capp, Lil’ Abner, Dick Tracey (all those horrible white criminals), Garfield, Frank and Ernest, and many more that poke fun at people.

As a member of a religious denomination that’s a common target for hatred and ridicule? The simple truth of the matter is that no matter how odious we may find certain things, they serve as a testimony to how things were. Without them around, it becomes that much easier to pretend that what they represent never happened.

Try being a female comics reader, we’re still working on the “but it’s not that way anymore” part.