Cartooning projects based on poems & songs …
“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…
Ama tu ritmo / Love Your Rhythm (Dario)
A passionate Dario poem with a mathematical pulse …
A Roosevelt / To Roosevelt 4
“You would need to be, Roosevelt, GOD himself…” (PART 4 OF 4)
A Roosevelt / To Roosevelt 3
“The America in which noble Guatemoc said, ‘I am not in a…
A Roosevelt / To Roosevelt 2
“If you cry out, it sounds like the roar of a lion…”
Augurios 6: Murcielago / Omens 6: Bat (Dario, 1905)
The final verse …
Augurios 5: Ruiseñor / Omens 5: Nightengale (Dario, 1905)
The healing power of song …
Augurios 4: Gerifalte / Omens 4: Falcon (Dario, 1905)
The bloodiest verse of Dario’s 1905 “Augurios” (“Omens”):
Augurios 3: Paloma / Omens 3: Dove (Dario, 1905)
“A dove passed / which almost grazed with its wings my lips…”
Augurios 2: Buho / Omens 2: Owl (Dario, 1905)
“An owl passed / over my forehead…”
Augurios 1: Aguila / Omens 1: Eagle (Dario, 1905)
The first verse of Dario’s 1905 “Augurios” (“Omens”)…
The Weeks Act of 1911
“John Weeks, 1911” (Music Video) = Finding poetry & music in an unlikely source… the text of landmark federal environmental legislation!
Poetry Comics in Freeman Colby Vol. 2:
“The Wound-Dressers” (Walt Whitman) = Whitman’s poem gives us an intimate glimpse into a Civil War hospital ward…
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Poetry Comics from Slovakia:
Song lyric translations (& the stories they tell):
Jazykolamy (tongue-twister poems with few vowels):
Poetry Comics from Nicaragua:
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