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“Space TAKEN” (Poetry Comics Demo)

Sci-Fi comics retrospection, after Robert Frost.

Draw your own comics version of Robert Frost’s classic poem!

How to create cartoons, make mini-comics, scribble story-scrolls, and more… all based on ideas from poems, songs, and other growing things!

Adapting the first 6 verses of Woody Guthrie’s song, based on John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel…

Here’s a video of “Un Millón de Amigos”, performed (and drawn) by my Coffee Camp students at La Hermandad:

A passionate Dario poem with a mathematical pulse …

Here are some more verses to Roberto Carlos’s beloved song, as sung/drawn/realized by my students at Ocalca Coffee Camp …

Here is the final verse to Guerra’s famous corrido …

Artwork inspired by the lyrics of “Nicaragua Mia”, as drawn by students & brigadistas…

“You would need to be, Roosevelt, GOD himself…” (PART 4 OF 4)

This music+comics project provided an exciting way for kids & adults to get to know each other despite their different languages and cultures.

“The America in which noble Guatemoc said, ‘I am not in a bed of roses’.”