Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for July 23, 2015
July 22, 2015
July 24, 2015
Transcript:
Dad: What are you watching, Baldo? Baldo: Some medical show. Baldo: Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on a machine.
“Pull the plug” was just a figure of speech, Sergio! (Good work of getting your son away from that accursed device. Now go and pull the computer’s plug so he doesn’t go to YouTube or other sites. Also hide his iPod/Tablet’s recharge cord.)
Comic strip artists really should figure out some better way to draw TVs than just old-style CRTs. Not too long from now, kids aren’t going to know what that thick, boxy thing with the cable box on top is. It would be as confusing as rabbit ears.
PeterL: Or worse’ are a Depression Baby like me. (That means born during the Hoover Depression, not a mental condition – the corporate media never gave us a Generation Letter.)
Templo S.U.D. almost 9 years ago
“Pull the plug” was just a figure of speech, Sergio! (Good work of getting your son away from that accursed device. Now go and pull the computer’s plug so he doesn’t go to YouTube or other sites. Also hide his iPod/Tablet’s recharge cord.)
Gigantor almost 9 years ago
Comic strip artists really should figure out some better way to draw TVs than just old-style CRTs. Not too long from now, kids aren’t going to know what that thick, boxy thing with the cable box on top is. It would be as confusing as rabbit ears.
Plods with ...™ almost 9 years ago
Touche`
Darsan54 Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Don’t forget your laptop and Facebook. Maybe the phone too.
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
Gigantor: I think most kids today can identify what it is – mainly because of cartoons.
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Not that way!
abbybookcase almost 9 years ago
try explaining a typewriter. or a world before cell phones. just a landline with a dial. and you couldn’t walk around the house with it.
barister almost 9 years ago
BRAVO Papi.
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
PeterL: Or worse’ are a Depression Baby like me. (That means born during the Hoover Depression, not a mental condition – the corporate media never gave us a Generation Letter.)
markjoseph125 almost 9 years ago
Strong contender for cartoon of the year!