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Author Archives: julian peters comics
“Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas, animated by Jim Avis
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: … Continue reading
Posted in comic book poetry, comics, Poetry, Poetry Comics
Tagged dylan thomas, fern hill, james avis, jim avis, marc chagall, nature poems to see by, plough books, plough publishing
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“The Eagle” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, animated by Jim Avis
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, … Continue reading
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, animated by Jim Avis
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 … Continue reading
“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, animated by Jim Avis and read by King Charles
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 … Continue reading
Cap-aux-Diamants magazine cover II
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 … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, new france, nouvelle france, quebec, watercolour
Tagged 1775, cap aux diamants, ilot du palais, palais de l'intendant, quebec city, quebec militia, siege
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“Stasera” di Giuseppe Ungaretti
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Giuseppe Ungaretti, illustration, italy, Poetry, watercolour, World War One
Tagged balaustrata di brezza, giuseppe ungaretti, Italian poetry, stasera, this evening, tonight, war poems, war poetry, wwI
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Joan of Arc
“It was deep into his fiery hearthe took the dust of Joan of Arc,and then she clearly understoodif he was fire, oh she must be wood.” –Leonard Cohen, “Joan of Arc”
Posted in illustration, watercolour
Tagged burning, joan of arc, leonard cohen, stake, watercolor, watercolour
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Cap-aux-Diamants magazine cover
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 … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, new france, nouvelle france
Tagged cap aux diamants, revue, magazine, microhistoire, quebec history, microhistory
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“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Spring has sprung! An illustration of a passage from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famous poem, “Ode to the West Wind.”
Posted in illustration, painting, Poetry, watercolour
Tagged can spring be far behind, if winter comes, ode to the west wind, percy bysshe shelley, poetry, spring, watercolour, winter
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