Nicaragua – Page 2 – www.MarekBennett.com

“Un Millón de Amigos” (More Verses)

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

Here’s another project we’ve been working on at La Hermandad Coffee Camp …

Here are some philosophical signs from around our Coffee Camp …

Here’s our camp kitchen… the morning tortillas are fresh off the pan:

Part of the beauty of the scene is how it changes almost every hour …

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

The whole plantation pauses as picking stops for the afternoon, and everyone gathers at the beneficio to measure out each team’s haul …

Drawn from my seat at the back of the room.

I caught these two sisters drawing before camp one morning this week …

Brigade member Kjol Johnson contributes this sketch …

Here, my students would like to give you a basic overview of the various stages of coffee production on their semi-organic plantation …

Sometimes it’s a fine line in the comics classroom…