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Guest Artist Teams Up with Baldo Creators -- This Time with Angry Little Girls' Theme

Kansas City, MO  (05/17/2006)  On May 22 the Angry Little Girls are teaming up with Baldo to make their nationally syndicated comic strip debut. Baldo cartoonists Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos invited Angry Little Girls creator Lela Lee to draw three of the six Baldo daily comic strips.

During the six-day series, Baldo character Gracie Bermudez (who Cantu and Castellanos describe as a “little sister with a cause”) and Lee’s cast of Angry Little Girls will join forces to show Baldo readers what real girls are all about. Gracie learns that, just like her, the Angry Little Girls are into more than just ribbons and fluffy dresses. The collaboration will run May 22 – 27, in celebration of Asian-American Heritage Month.

Created in 1994 by Lela Lee, a UC Berkeley sophomore at the time, Angry Little Girls is comprised of five characters: Kim (the angry little Asian girl), Deborah (the disenchanted princess), Maria (the crazy little Latina), Wanda (the fresh soul sistah) and Xyla (the gloomy girl). In 1996 ANGRY LITTLE GIRLS became a weekly online comic that featured these girls cutely tackling self-identity, acceptance and friendship with the wit and humor that earned Lela Lee a serious following of women—from teenagers to soccer moms.

Lela Lee is an actress who has appeared on such shows as Will & Grace, Friends, and Scrubs. Her Angry Little Girls have been featured on PBS and in numerous newspaper articles. In January 2006, Jennifer Love Hewitt teamed with the Oxygen network to executive produce an Angry Little Girls animated series; a pilot has been ordered.

The lynchpin of the Angry Little Girls craze remains Lee’s website (www.angrylittlegirls.com) which features a new comic post-weekly.

Baldo is written by Cantu, an editor at Quick, The Dallas Morning News tabloid for young readers, and drawn by Castellanos, an illustrator living in West Palm Beach, Fla. The collaboration will be the second of its kind; in September 2005 one of America’s best known Latino comic book illustrators, Richard Dominquez (author and creator of El Gato Negro) sat in as a guest artist for Baldo, producing an 11-day series in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Baldo, the first nationally syndicated comic strip featuring a Latino American family, is seen in more than 200 newspapers around the nation, including The Washington Post, The Miami Herald and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Creator(s): Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos

Contact(s): Kathie Kerr

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