My adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem “Annabel Lee” (1849):
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Find this comic along with 23 other classic poetry adaptations in my debut book, Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (Plough Publishing, 2020): https://www.amazon.com/Poems-See-Artist-Interprets-Poetry/dp/087486318X
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I am a student and that helped me understand I am also a fellow writer so thank you for writing this to help kids and adults under stand but can you make the the Edger a little bit older since he was 26 not THIRTY!
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Thank you! Do you mean 26 not 13?
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lowk boring
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hi I am 6 7
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67
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67!
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tuffness
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hawk toah
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gotta lie, this book is good
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67
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67 mason
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same bro
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i like em big
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me too
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relatable
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real
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ur weird twin
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not my thing but it doesn’t deserve all the hate.
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Ay bruh ts fr tuff all fax no printa. dont listen to the bums.
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big d randy
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dis is sus
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I am a teacher and these graphics helped my students understand the poem so much better. Thank you for all of the work you did. It is a beautiful poem and your graphics are wonderful.
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Shut yo bean headed ahhh up
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http://ishowspeed
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this book is worse than skibidi toilet gang
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So not sigma for w symping on her like that L gooner
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type shyt
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This was lowk buns
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bro ntm
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I hate all the work. they making us do an essay 6 paragraph
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Why all the work🙄
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why you hatin
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facts
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goofy ahh book had me sleeping fr
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I hope that my generation can get over their selfish ways and realize the true meaning of the poem. It is a shame that 5 minutes of your time is considered burdensome while someone spending 5 hours drawing this, isn’t even considered. I wish my generation well.
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Thanks! 🙂 It was wayyyy more than 5 hours, though
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the comic style made him look like he had HUGE rizz (charisma) 🙂
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She did have no other thought than to love and be loved by him, after all! 🙂
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“guys we need to think and listen because this has a true meaning!” ahh comment
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real
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what is wrong with you?
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facts
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you actually hating to much
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‘Goofy ahh book’? If you think it’s boring why did you read it. You clearly know that it was poetry, why read it, you had to search it up so you’re the boring one, dumbass….
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wasnt edgar allen poe like 30 and annabell like 13😭
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bro what
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nnooo wth
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they both were childeren
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Literally says, “I was a child, and she was a child”
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it was referring to someone else BRO
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goofy ahh book
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bro got knocked
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fr
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why didn’t they just get her reboot card
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foul 😭😭
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rip Lil bro
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sigma work
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type
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rizz in Ms holt class
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is bro in rosemont
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nawh this comic made me have sm work
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L comic
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Same😂
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on god
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fr
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This is a great story! so many twist and turns.
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kys
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Who asked
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what the heck!!!!!!!!!!!!
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on bro
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low key boring ngl
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THEM WHY ARE YOU READING IT
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cause i have to for my assignment fr
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Honestly I find it worrying that we have gotten to a point in our education and in our culture where reading a 41-line poem is considered an arduous assignment
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You’re a bum. No one said anything about it being tiring, bro just said it was boring.
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buddy you should calm down
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Out of curiosity, what poem would you consider non-boring?
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all of em suck bro
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“well actually its arduous!!”
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I LOVE this!!!!! BUT wasn’t this a poem FIRST
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lame ass book fr
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okay well maybe you just suck
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at least i dont swallow, Tessa
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I love this poem! I definitely loved reading this to my students
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green fn
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I’m so glad! I hope your students appreciate it as well
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This is absolutely fantastic and the last panel is one of the most beautiful and devastating that I’ve ever seen. (And I’m a professor who has taught Poe at the college level!)
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Thank you!! I really appreciate that. I’ve always been very proud of that panel. This was one of the very first poems I ever adapted into comics, and if I hadn’t been quite satisfied with it, I don’t know if I would have continued along that path.
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Wonderful interpretation of Annabel Lee, I enjoyed it so mucj!!
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oui je m’appel anne
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why does annable lee die
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From a cold I believe and was cursed by the angels
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she got sick and died.
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asd
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The angels were jealous of their love, so they killed her.
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that is a lovely name
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I can’t believe he married his cousin at 13 🤦🏾♂️
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ong thats mad weird no kap
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Fax no printa
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goofy ahh
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wait actually? I’m disturbed rn
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Thank you for putting this comic out into the world! I can’t wait to share this with my students! Hopefully these wonderful illustrations can assist my ELL students in plot understanding!
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Thanks! 🙂
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we do not care
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Shut your face. Do not speak for me. I care.
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NOOOOOOO, SPARE THE CHILDREN FROM THIS EVIL
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Thank you for sharing , I used your illustrations in my English class for the comic group in a school of art in Spain ,
https://englishforartists.blogspot.com/2019/02/annabel-lee-by-edgar-allan-poe.html
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I’m honoured! So many great comics coming from Spain these days
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Amazing work! It really evokes the tragic feeling of the poem, and gives you the gothic feel as well. I love it so much I’m going to show it to the kids I teach!
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Great! Please do!
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It’s comfusing
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Lovely work… nicely done… esplly. love annabel’s presence among the waves in the last frame.
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Lovely work Julian! I loved it 🙂
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Hi
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Great work Julian!! Prufrock bought me here also. So inspiring.
If you get a spare moment check out a poem called “The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes with illustrations by Charles Keeping(link below). It was one of my fav’s as a child and similar to your creations.
Again, Fantastic!!!
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=the+highwayman+alfred+noyes+charles+keeping+images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-au&client=safari
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Wow! Charles Keeping’s drawings (which I was only vaguely aware of) are incredibly beautiful and inspiring. I’m flattered that you would compare my work to his.
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such a sad story
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This is awesome! One of my all time favorite poems and I love what you did with it! Thanks for sharing.
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Your work is absolutely beautiful! I also use this with my 7th/8th graders when we examine Poe’s work. I noticed that certain aspects seem to be inspired by gravestones from this cemetery: vhttp://www.thecarpetbagger.org/2013/05/charleston-sc-kingdom-by-sea.html. Did you visit here? I’ve been delving into the local Charleston folklore surrounding Annabel Lee Ravenel.
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Thank you! It’s so long ago that it’s hard for me to remember, but I think the tombstone in the title comes from a New England design. But a lot of the architecture was in fact inspired by a book of old photographs of Charleston. I’ve never visited though, unfortunately. One day, I hope!
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Hi Peter! I am a musician and i would like to use your art on youtube for a song i made with William Burroughs’ voice.Is that possible?Your name will be mentioned in description.Thanks in advance!
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Thanks for your interest, Aggelos, please contact me at info@jpeterscomics.com. Thanks!
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Julian, this is amazing! I am using your beautiful interpretation of Annabel Lee with my 8th grade students. They LOVE it as much as I do.
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Thanks Mandee! That’s great to know.
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Excellent work, it’s great to see how a great, inspiring poem leads to additional, fantastic creations. First time I knew about Annabel Lee story was because of a song in 1987, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuZMhbU5TPY
Videoclip is now old, but the song is still one of my favorites. It’s in Spanish, but I recommend it even if you cannot understand the language
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Thanks for letting me know about this video. It’s interesting how much the imagery resembles that of my comic, albeit with an 80s glam twist! BTW, are you familiar with Fernando Pessoa’s beautiful translation of this poem into Portuguese?
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What a beautiful poem and illustration: I liked the fact that you drew the narrator as a child until the very last line, which enhances the integrity of his love. The final picture is really touching and my heart was sobbing, by the sea…
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This comic is so old that it almost seems to me like something from Poe’s era! 🙂 It’s funny, it never occurred to me that the male narrator should be a lot older at the end of the poem, even though it’s being written in the present tense would indeed suggest that.
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What a beautiful poem and illustration: I really liked the fact that you drew the narrator as a child until the very last line, which enhances the integrity of his love. My heart was sobbing, by the sea…
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Hi julian love your work great material for us students many thank
Mark from the philippines
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Thanks Mark! That’s really great to know!
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These are beautiful! I’m gonna give them to my students tomorrow, I’m sure they’ll love it! Really nice work!
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Thanks! I hope they like them!
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This is beautiful. Thank you.
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This adaption is truly amazing. It captures the mood of the poem so well.
When I looked at it, however, I couldn’t help wondering: Do you try to incorporate the poetic devices of the poem into your drawings (especially since Poe uses a lot of alliteration in this one. I feel this is something that cannot be drawn) or do you primarily try to convey the feeling the poem evokes?
In any case… it is beautifully done!
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Thanks! I admit I can’t imagine how to illustrate alliteration, but I think I can find a visual equivalent to many many other poetic devices, such as similes, changes of tone, rhythm, and maybe even rhyme to a certain extent.
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Simply Wow!!! I had read this poem years ago and you have managed to translate it into images superbly. Your images bring out the pathos of the words. Hats off to you deepa!!!
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Simply Wow!! I had read this poem many years ago and somehow you have managed to bring the images I had in my mind exactly on paper. Thanks!
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Is there a way to purchase your comic in full?
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No
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Sorry I never replied to this question. I do have a self-published zine version of this comic which I would be happy to send you. Just contact me at info@jpeterscomics.com
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I really liked the comic edition to Edgar Allen Poe “Annabelle Lee” because it helped the reader imagine the time and place it could’ve been. The Art in each panel brought a new mood represented by the picture. I really liked it, and you should do more of these!
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This is a great poem. The rhyme scheme is clever but so are the pictures. The pictures helped me understand this a little better because the first I read it I couldn’t understand it. Great work!
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I feel as though that was a magnificent illustration of the poem, well done!
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This is a great illustration of the poem. It captures the main details of the poem and I love how Annabel lee is hidden in the water in the last box. It truly shows the connection between the 2 characters and their love.
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I thought this was a beautiful way to show the poem. This showed that beautiful things can be sad too. Great Job!
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So true! In fact, most beautiful things are at least slightly sad, in a way.
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I just came across a post on Openculture and came over to check your work out. Simply wonderful.
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Thanks Phin!
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Just discovered you today, and have spent a wonderful few hours perusing and reading. Your work is amazing, and I will most certainly get any book of yours that would come out in print.
As for the idea emitted, of putting your drawings up to see every day…. when will you be making posters?
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I’m so flattered that you have spent a few hours looking at my site! I love when I come across a site that makes me want to do that, and it’s very gratifying to think that this one could constitute such a space for someone else. As for the posters, that’s not a bad idea! I’ll have to look into it.
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Yes, posters for schools, I’ll share this with my students, thank you!
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Thank you for sharing!
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These are amazing! Thank you so much for posting your work!
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I would like to hang this in my living room and see it every day 🙂
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Thanks! What better compliment could a visual artist ask for?
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if I saw this every day i would hang myself
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Is there a way I could purchase a copy of this?
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Stil looking for a publisher for these. In the meantime, I have a copy shop zine version available, along with many other poetry comics: https://julianpeterscomics.com/2012/11/16/comics-zines-for-sale/
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Would love to see this, your T.S. Eliot work, and other literary interpretations in iBook form. I’d use them with my students.
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That would be great!
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Are any of your poems available for purchase? If so, I’d love a list. I really somehow have this powerful internal need to hold them in my own hands and read them. And as for T.S. Eliot — well, I’m getting one, but I know it will be so desperately coveted that I need to get three, Help me out here. I’m ready to purchase! – C.
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A beautiful rendition of this poem was made into a popular song by a group called the Co-eds. I always enjoy hearing it.
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I looked up the song, and found it on youtube. It really is beautiful! the best adaptation of the song into music that I’ve heard. The lovely melody, doo wop harmonies -not to mention the scratchy vinyl of this recording- really add to the wistfulness of Poe’s words. Thanks!
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This was an amazing and beautiful illustration of the poem by the great Edgar Allen Poe. He is one of my favorite poets and i would love to see what you could do with his poem The Raven. Great job on this great interpretation of the poem
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You works are awesome!
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It is your work is awesome.
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My father used to read this to me when I was younger and now I know it by heart. He used to read it to me before I went to bed. I miss hearing it. It’s one of my favorite poems now. My father passed away right before I went to college. This brought tears to my eyes because I miss my father a lot. When he read these poems to me and books it was so special to me. This poem means to much to me.
When I read this it reminds me of him and I can hear him reading it. The art is beautiful and really conveys the unconditional love and loss in the poem. I would love to have a copy of it.
Thanks so much.
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Thanks, Christi. I’m glad my interpretation felt true to the strong meaning that the poem holds for you.
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This is so touching. My father used to read this to me when I was little. He would read this poem because it was one of his favorites. He knew it by heart and now I know it by heart.
My father passed away right before I came to college and this has been so touching to read. The art is beautifully done and really conveys the love and loss in the poem. Thanks so much. It reminds me so much of my dad and I can hear him read the poem to me.
Honestly, it brings tears to my eyes. Thanks. I’d love to have a copy of it.
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Excellent!
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Simplemente hermoso!! Me encantó ❤
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This is the most awesome thing I’ve seen on the Web in a long while. You, Sir, rock!
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Je suis en train de regarder tes dessins et je dois te dire que ton style me fait penser à ce que j’ai imaginé quand j’ai lu “Les Hauts de Hurlevent”! Il est simple et très évocateur… bonne continuation! fais-moi savoir si un jour tu illustres Emily Brontë!
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Je l’ai lu il y a tellement longtemps… mais il me semble qu’il y avait des scènes très évocatrices, visuellement. Un jour, qui sait! 🙂
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I ❤️ the cartoons!!!!!! It’s awesome the way you capture the sadness in the poem. I am very impressed with the last frame how you made the waves look like Annabel reaching out to touch the boy.
Great Job!!!!!!!!
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Wow! That is so beautifully done. The illustrations so well compliment the verses. I won’t forget the images you represented whenever I read this poem again. 🙂
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Had no idea something so beautiful had a way of becoming even more so. The day this is available in print, I would be proud to bring it home. Good luck!
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Oh! This is such a beautiful thing to come across! The drawings really bring this poem to life…
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Incredible illustrations. You’ve brought one of my favourite poems to life beautifully. Thank you.
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This is insane! I love this poem. Wow. You captured the intensity of their love so perfectly.
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Great stuff. I’d like very much to see what you’d do with my favorite poem — With Rue My Heart is Laden, by Housman.
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Excellent!
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Beautiful. Please consider Yeats’ “The Second Coming.”
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Your art style looks a lot like the comics Gerard Way draws! It looks really cool!
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I don’t know him, but I’ll check him out. Thanks!
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Thank you so much for this incredible work that you’ve done with this poem. It will be an innovative way to teach this poem to my students. I will be using it next semester.Other poem I teach are : “The Runaway” by Robert Frost, “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyse and “maggie and milly and molly and may” by Lucille Clifton.
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Ah! I’ve always wanted to illustrate “The Highwayman,” at least the opening stanza, with the moon as a ghostly galleon, and the road as a ribbon of moonlight. So wonderful!
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this is my favorite poem of Poe, his the Master! and you… you became the perfect poem in something more Perfect! You make the cartoons just exacly as I imagine, thanks! for this wonderfull and amaing work! your the best!
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Thank you Karen!
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Wow you are truly amazing. Unique perspective, thank you.
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Thanks! Your encouragement is much appreciated.
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In Spain, in the south-west, in a region called Extremadura. Thanks a lot, I was ver worried for not being able to use them, thanks, thanks, and many thanks. Have a look! I made that last week with another group of students!
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Good stuff! I’ve always loved the name Extremadura, BTW. Sounds so tough!
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Sure, I’d be happy to have you use my drawings. Where is your school?
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Excellent work Jualian, can I use it for a project at school?? We’re preparing some stuff about Poe and I’d like to use use this comic because the illustrations are great! Is that possible?
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Thanks! By all means. I would just ask you to provide a link to my website somewhere in your project.
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In fact I’ve posted something like TO LEARN MORE, and I’ve included this blog. By the way, I’m just preparing it and the students have begun reading the poem and familiarizing with the topics and Poe’s way of composing. My idea is to create a poster for the classroom, and then to prepare your comic with some additional activities I will prepare. The school magazine has accepted (I’m a teacher of English) to publish a review of my project but I’m asking you if I can use your images. I’d be very delighted to show you the end of it, because I’d like them to colour your comic using Po’e way of depicting nature and the elements. Thanks a lot for your work!
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This is really well done. wonderful illustration for a wonderful poem. the students will love it, I think I’ll show it to them when we do our Poe study.
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Thanks, Alyssa. Please do!
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Thanks a million (or given the amount of o’s, thanks a trillion)!
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I love this poem and I love your graphics they are sooooooooo cool
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Hi there! It’s incedibly wonderful the comic strip about the poem. Unluckily the third paper is scanned wrongly cause it does not show it properly. Could you please re upload it? I’m making my own coursebook on different american literature writers and edgar allan poe is one of them. I’d like to include these comic strips to my notebook. Thanx a lot! 😉
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Thanks! I’m not sure what the problem could be. Contact me at info@jpeterscomics.com, and I will send you a scan of the 3rd page.
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Hi! I have already sent ya an e-mail so as to be sent the scan of te 3rd page! just in case my e-mail hasn’t got to ur inbox my e-mail account is ivanzambra_510@hotmail.com hope to get it asap. Thanx a lot for ur help! 😉
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Amazing translation of the poem. Beautiful and inspired. Congrats.
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Wow. My name is Annabel and it is even spelled the same. The poem is really sad, Great job anyway!!! Love it!!!!
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Thanks! It’s a lovely name!
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you’re welcome.
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