My new book, Nature Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets More Great Poetry (Plough Publishing, 2026) was released on March 24.
Here is another video interpretation by Jim Avis of one of the 24 comics adaptations featured in the book: Dylan Thomas’s immortal ode to childhood (and one of my favourite poems), “Fern Hill,” with a reading by the poet himself:
My new book, Nature Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets More Great Poetry (Plough Publishing, 2026) was released last week!
Here is another video interpretation by Jim Avis of one of the 24 comics adaptations featured in the book: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s punchy miniature masterpiece, “The Eagle” (1851):
My new book, Nature Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets More Great Poetry (Plough Publishing, 2026), is being released this coming Tuesday, March 24!
Here to whet your appetite is a video interpretation by Jim Avis of one of the 24 comics adaptations featured in the book: A swirling, swinging-sixties interpretation of William Wordsworth’s immortal “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (1804):
A video interpretation by Jim Avis of my comics adaptation of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur,” featuring a most distinguished and particularly well-enunciated reading by none other than His Royal Majesty, King Charles III.
The original comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can be found in my upcoming book, Nature Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets More Great Poetry (Plough Publishing, 2026), now available for preorder.
Cap-aux-Diamants is a French-language magazine dedicated to the cultural and social history of Quebec. This is my cover illustration for their Summer 2025 issue, which is dedicated to the siege of Quebec City by the revolutionary American army in the winter of 1775-1776.
Balaustrata di brezza
Per appoggiare stasera
La mia malinconia.
(An illustration inspired by Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti’s 1916 poem “Stasera” (“This Evening”). The text, which was composed while Ungaretti was a soldier in WW1, could be translated more or less as follows: “A balustrade of breeze/This evening upon which to lean/My melancholy.”)
“It was deep into his fiery heart
he took the dust of Joan of Arc,
and then she clearly understood
if he was fire, oh she must be wood.”
–Leonard Cohen, “Joan of Arc”
Cap-aux-Diamants is a magazine dedicated to the cultural and social history of Quebec. This is my cover for their just-released Spring issue, illustrating an article titled “Sept vies retrouvées — un projet de microhistoire” (Seven lives rediscovered — a microhistory project). Following meticulous archival research, the authors of this article retrace the lives of seven little-known or even wholly unknown figures from all walks of life in Quebec history, offering up new perspectives on the province’s past.
If you would like to order a copy of this issue, you can do so here.
Spring has sprung! An illustration of a passage from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famous poem, “Ode to the West Wind.”
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