Ana and the Calabash
by Rebecca Migdal

Can the courage of one small girl change the fate of an entire village?
One morning while Ana is picking beans in her father's milpa, an enormous bulldozer comes and destroys the family farm. That night Ana dreams about a butterfly, a magic calabash head and the Lord of Xibalba astride a bulldozer. The next morning the butterfly appears and guides Ana to take a stand, climbing her Grandmother's calabash tree to protect it from the developers' monstrous machines.

Ana and the Calabash, a story of the land rights struggle of the Maya of Toledo, is a hand-constructed accordion-fold comic created by Rebecca Migdal at the behest of Maya community organizer Cristina Coc, director of the Julian Cho Society. Migdal is a graphic journalist and a contribuing editor in the World War 3 Illustrated collective.