Every week on this site, I am publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge).
I am leaving on vacation tomorrow, so the next page will have to wait until my return, in mid August. Wishing everyone a great and surprising summer!
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Bonne vacances !!!
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So far, so excellent. I’m looking forward to seeing Stetson. Ezra?
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Thank you kindly! In my interpretation, the Stetson figure has the features of Eliot’s friend Jean Jules Verdenal, who was killed while serving in the French army in 1915, and to whom Eliot dedicated “Prufrock and Other Observations.” It is the same mustachioed figure who appears on the first page and in the hyacinth girl sequence.
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I sorta expected a dude in a cowboy hat…
-j.
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Haha well yeah I pictured him that way too to a certain extent. In the end I gave the character a kind of homburg hat, which seemed like the closest thing to a classic Stetson Western hat that could conceivably be worn in London in the 1920s
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