Night of the Bilingual Telemarketers

by Hector Cantu, Carlos Castellanos

Overview

The lead character of Baldo, Baldo Bermudez, is a 15-year-old Latino teen with visions of creating the perfect low rider and being popular with the girls. Meanwhile, the strip's creators, Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos, began the strip in 2000 with dreams of creating a comic rooted in Latin American heritage that would have wide appeal and soar in popularity. Judging by the pieces of car in the driveway and yet another dateless weekend for Baldo, it's fair to say Cantu and Castellanos are having all the luck, and Baldo's readers are having all the laughs. Night of the Bilingual Telemarketers is a compilation of strips from the increasingly popular comic's second year.

The strip centers around Baldo and his humorous observations on teenage life in school and with family. On the home front is Baldo's relationship with his single-parent dad, his younger sister and budding political activist Gracie, and his live-in Old World aunt Carmen. Cantu and Castellanos know firsthand the experience of growing up within two cultures. Consequently, Baldo's daily adventures challenge him to balance his mainstream sensibilities with his Latino heritage. The result is the humorous mix of teenage silliness rooted in reality found in Night of the Bilingual Telemarketers, a book that will delight readers of ages and cultures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780740721939
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	09/28/2002
Series:	Baldo Collections
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Creators Carlos Castellanos and Hector Cantú each got their cartooning starts early. Carlos began his career as an illustrator while still in college, while Hector created his first cartoon when he was 12. Carlos continues to do a variety of illustration work for national magazines, publishers, and ad agencies. He lives with his wife and two sons in West Palm Beach. Hector was a features editor at the Dallas Morning News before dedicating himself to Baldo full-time. He lives in Dallas with his wife and three children.