The Most Costly Journey

by Marek Bennett

  • Vermont Folklife Center
  • 2021
  • ISBN: 978-0916718008
  • 252 pages
  • WorldCat
The Most Costly Journey
About the Book

Originally distributed to farm workers as individual Spanish language comic books, this non-fiction comics anthology presents stories of survival and healing told by Latin American migrant farmworkers in Vermont and drawn by New England cartoonists as part of the El Viaje Más Caro Project-a health care outreach effort of the Open Door Clinic and UVM Extension Bridges to Health aimed at addressing the overlooked mental health needs of these vulnerable immigrants.

A 2022 Excellence in Graphic Literature finalist | Library of Congress 2022 National Book Festival selection | Shortlisted for the Graphic Medicine Award | Selected as the VERMONT READS 2022 book of the year
Marek Bennett
About the Author

Editor for this Anthology, New Hampshire-based cartoonist, musician, and educator, Marek Bennett leads discovery-based Comics Workshops for all ages throughout New England and the world beyond! His comics work includes the graphic novel series, The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, as well as drawing, translating, & editing for The Most Costly Journey (2021) with the bilingual El Viaje Project. In September 2022, both books were featured at the National Book Festival in Washington DC. Marek is the recipient of the New Hampshire Governor’s Arts Award for Art Education.

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