Here are some unfinished pages of student artwork, available now for translation:
Tag Archives: Nicaragua
Sketches of La Hermandad
Index card art from coffee camp…
A Roosevelt / To Roosevelt 3
“The America in which noble Guatemoc said, ‘I am not in a bed of roses’.”
A Roosevelt / To Roosevelt 2
“If you cry out, it sounds like the roar of a lion…”
Coffee Camp: Physical Education
Students in the “Planting Hope” Coffee Camps come from families whose parents work in the local coffee harvest during school vacation. The camps give the kids a chance to participate in team- & skill-building exercises AND receive nutritious meals over the course of the day. Here we are at physical education class: I sat off to the side & …
Ocalca Classroom
What a beautiful classroom, this wind-blown cattle road along the flanks of Ocalca…!
Nica History: Andres Castro and his Stone
Castro would have fought against William Walker’s filibusters in the 1850s…
Nica History: Rafaela Herrera
I’m posting some Nicaraguan history displays from the walls of public school classrooms (and other places), as examples of the amazing graphic novels hidden inside standard essay paragraphs by educational institutions around the world… But who will draw them? We have, of course, met Rafaela Herrera before in a couple contexts; this setting adds some …
Bienvenidos a Nicaragua / Welcome to Nicaragua
The smell of recent rain on rock mixes with the smoke of burning meadows… It’s good to be back.
Comics Workshop in Nicaragua
Here’s a peek into a rural Comics Workshop at La Reyna / San Ramon:
A Roosevelt / To Roosevelt (Dario, 1904)
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Protection
Unintended consequences of a well-meaning law…
