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La Chispa Comics

Our students at La Chispa library (Matagalpa) try their hands at autobio comics:

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

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

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

Brigade member Kjol Johnson contributes this sketch …

Drawing comics, in between nutritious snacks, a motivational (& preventative) visit from a country dentist, and more…

Fotos from a recent Coffee Camp at Ocalca village:

Instead of hauling out a camera to document the coffee harvest, I’ve been ducking out of the rain long enough to sketch …

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

Some of our collaborators & friends from the Planting Hope brigade’s visit to coffee camp:

Index card art from coffee camp…