Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 24, 2023

I’m going to go out on a limb and take a guess that the argument with his girlfriend had something to do with the cute new girl in school.

Put You In A School Daze From Not Always Right :

(While at work, I begin chatting with a customer who looks around my age. She leaves, then comes back ten minutes later with her number on a piece of paper, and tells me to text her. After some texted conversation, the subject of work comes up.)

Me: “Well, you know what I do for a living. How about you?”

Her: “I’m in school.”

Me: “Cool. What college?”

Her: “High school.”

(I don’t respond for a long time, because best-case scenario, she’s at the beginning of her senior year. I know that I look much younger than I am; she must have assumed I was still in high school, too.)

Me: “Not to be rude at all, but how old are you?”

Her: “I’m 16. Why, what about you?”

Me: “21. So…”

(She understands immediately, and spends half an hour apologizing and assuring me I could totally also look my actual age. Then we both summarily delete each other’s numbers.)

The way this School Daze maze is set up, the one thing that looks like it’s impossible for Baldo to completely avoid is “Pressure to ride home with drunk friends”.

“Pressure to ride home with drunk friends?” In high school? During the school day? Perhaps I’m out of touch, but that seems a bit improbable. At least I hope so.

I just don’t see how he could navigate through this without cheating

Did it! Had an argument with girlfriend-what else is new…

Did the A+ paper fall out sof some other kid’s backpack? Not saying that Baldo COULDN’T do very well if he wanted to, but the boy seems to have other priorities.

A tribute to Circo Familiar

’mon! Goulash can’t be stomach-turning.

Family Circus with more sophisticated, teenage obstacles. Well done.

This is very well done. I wonder how long it took to draw.

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