Projects based on poems & songs…
RECENT POSTS:
“Space TAKEN” (Poetry Comics Demo)
Sci-Fi comics retrospection, after Robert Frost.
“Taken” Poetry Comics Template
Draw your own comics version of Robert Frost’s classic poem!
Poetry Comics Camp (2021)
How to create cartoons, make mini-comics, scribble story-scrolls, and more… all based…
Woody Guthrie’s “Tom Joad” #1
Adapting the first 6 verses of Woody Guthrie’s song, based on John…
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SONGS ‘n’ COMICS:
The John Weeks Song:
“Un Millón de Amigos” (video)
Here’s a video of “Un Millón de Amigos”, performed (and drawn) by my Coffee Camp students at La Hermandad:
“Nicaragua Mia” (Verse 3)
Here is the final verse to Guerra’s famous corrido …
“Nicaragua Mia” (Ocalca Camp)
Artwork inspired by the lyrics of “Nicaragua Mia”, as drawn by students & brigadistas…
“Nicaragua Mia”
Here’s an interpretation of Guerra’s song, as sung to us by COMICS WORKSHOP students in San Ramon …
SONG: “Que Linda Es Nicaragua”
Students in the 2009 HSR Comics Exchange sing “Nicaragua Mia” (by Tino Lopez Guerra): Hey! Look! It’s the lyrics in COMIIIIIIIICS!:
Poetry Comics in Freeman Colby Vol. 2:
“The Wound-Dressers” (Walt Whitman) = An intimate glimpse into a Civil War hospital ward.
ALSO SEE: More about primary source texts in the Freeman Colby series >>
Poetry Comics from Slovakia:
Song lyric translations
(& the stories they tell)
Jazykolamy
(tongue-twister poems with few vowels)
Poetry Comics from Nicaragua:
