Monthly Archives: October 2020

Video of “Conscientious Objector” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Posted on October 29, 2020 by julian peters comics

With Halloween around the corner, here is a suitably eerie video adaptation by Jim Avis of my own comics interpretation of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Conscientious Objector” (1934). The poem is read by Natalie Rushing. The original comics adaptation, … Continue reading →

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“Not Waving But Drowning” by Stevie Smith in Plough Quarterly

Posted on October 27, 2020 by julian peters comics

My comics adaptation of one of my all-time favourite poems, Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving But Drowning”(1957) appears today on the Plough.com website. The comic was created last year for inclusion in “Poems to See By,” (published by Plough Publishing in … Continue reading →

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The Legend of Le Rocher Panet

Posted on October 22, 2020 by julian peters comics

The south shore of the St. Lawrence River around Montmagny and l’Islet is in places lacking in topographical variety. There are no cliffs nor steep slopes, but rather grassy beaches burgeoning with wild rice and sedges, murky from the fine … Continue reading →

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Two Montreal Views in the Style of Ukiyo-e Prints

Posted on October 15, 2020 by julian peters comics

Two scenes from near where I live – an alley in Côte-Saint-Paul and a view along the aqueduct in Verdun – rendered in a style that tries to imitate that of the nineteenth-century Japanese ukiyo-e prints by such artists as … Continue reading →

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Video of “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats

Posted on October 10, 2020 by julian peters comics

A beautiful anime-adjacent video interpretation by James Avis of my comics adaptation of William Butler Yeats’s poem “When You Are Old.” The drawings are a homage to the Japanese shojo manga tradition, and particularly to the work of the CLAMP … Continue reading →

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