Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for July 28, 2024

Baldo, It’s against the law to launder money.

It’ll all come out in the wash.

Money doesn’t disintegrate in the laundry. No one other than Sergio or Tia Carmen is likely to be doing the family laundry, and I can’t imagine either of them keeping the $50, so what happened to it?

Both the alleyway danger and the artwork is a vey different style for this strip.

He knows where you live, Baldo…and work!

That doesn’t work either. I find bills and coins in my washer all the time.

In an attempt to get my kiddos to empty their pockets for washing, I declared any found money would be considered a tip. My largest tip was a $10 bill.

Really nice art.

Love it.

I really like the art today. Especially how it is used to change the mood and tell the story.

Great graphic comic artwork! Shows how truly talented Señors Cantú and Castellanos are!

Why do I keep flashing back to “Take on Me" by Ah-Ha………?

The strip suddenly got all dramatic. Is this a pivot point? Will it continue this way? Only be this way on Sundays? Go back to normal? Stay tuned…

Also, Baldo and Stella look younger in the first panel.

Lovely change to the art! Some changes are really good! Thank you!

I did the laundry in my family. Any cash left in pockets became mine. I always checked every pocket, tissues going through the wash are the worst. But folding money does not disintegrate.

Baldo is the scoundrel in this case. He needs to use money from his job to buy the oil sensor he said he would. Diego did not do anything wrong in this story.

I worked at a dry cleaners for years and we always returned folding money in little envelopes. It was amazing to me how many people left money in their pockets.

$50, likely < than 4 hours wages.

The artwork is great.

Well, US bills are cloth, not paper, sooo…

Three panels in I looked up to make sure gocomics hadn’t accidentally placed Baldo up there where it shoulda read Dick Tracy.

I was hoping that among all the well-deserved tributes to today’s art there would be a mention of just who it is that today’s art is a tribute to. It certainly seems to be an homage to someone in particular, but I don’t know who.

And let not our praise for today’s departure from the usual style of the art on this strip overshadow the fact that the art on this strip is always very good!

$50 gone, so he didn’t get the oil pressure sensor. But unless he was going to use the sensor to earn back the $50, he should still be able to pay Diego back in whatever way he originally planned to.

(Did I hear you say, “Planned?”)

I will note that Baldo said the money “vanished” in the wash, not disintegrated or anything. A possible scenario, Tia Carmen seem like the sort that might prefer to hang laundry to dry. The money comes out of the pocket in the wash, she starts hanging the clothes, and doesn’t notice the money fall to the ground. It then blows away.

Last panel, you own rent to the homeless person?

Actually, you can wash and dry U.S. paper money without much damage.

That’s why at first I thought Balado meant he left the oil pressure sensor in his pocket. I don’t know if it would be laundry-proof or not.

Diego is not a scoundrel. Nobody with that name is a scoundrel. i.e. Diego Maradona, Diego de la Vega (Zorro) and yours trully. :)

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

This artwork is great! But money goes through the laundry just fine most of the time…