Product Details
The Lower You Ride, the Cooler You Are: A Baldo Collection

The Lower You Ride, the Cooler You Are: A Baldo Collection
By Carlos Castellanos

Price:

This item is not available for purchase from this store.
Click here to go to Amazon to see other purchasing options.


19 new or used available from $3.49

Average customer review:

Product Description

Baldo is the 15-year-old title character in a hilarious new comic, the first nationally syndicated strip to depict a Latino family's lives. This refreshingly hip new collection captures the lifestyle and humor of the country's fastest-growing ethnic group through the adventures of a typical American teenager, who just happens to live a salsa-mix life of mainstream sensibilities and Latino culture. The result is a merry combination of silliness that rings true, whether Baldo and his buddies are dreaming of girls or building the sweetest low-rider car imaginable.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #864321 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-08-14
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Hector Cantu, an assistant features editor at The Dallas Morning News, created his first cartoon at 12. Carlos Castellanos has been a freelance illustrator since 1981, serving corporate, publishing, and advertising clients throughout the country.

Customer Reviews

Enthusiastically recommended for an entertaining good time5
The Lower You Ride, The Cooler You Are is the first collection of the Baldo syndicated comic strip by the collaborative efforts of writer Hector Cantu and illustrator Carlos Castellanos, and which appears in over 100 newspapers across the U.S.A. This hilarious anthology of the newspaper comic strip mixes Latino culture and the ridiculous foibles that haunt every teenager's life as it follows 15-year-old Baldo with his wild imagination, his yearning to date the prettiest girl in school, and his love of soccer and cars. The Lower You Ride, The Cooler You Are is enthusiastically recommended for an entertaining good time.

I like it5
I've been a fan of Baldo for a few months now and I really look forward to the morning comics so I can read this strip. Along with Get Fuzzy and Garfield, this is one of the best comics out there. I don't have the book yet, but having read this strip for a while, I think I am allowed to put in a comment right here.

Great stuff5
The writer of this comic series really captures the teenage spirit of a kid gowing up in today's America. Funny, and entertaining.