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Comics
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
Author Archives: julian peters comics
Link to my interview for The Bridge on CBC Radio
My conversation with Nantali Indongo for CBC Montreal’s arts and radio program The Bridge is now online on the CBC website: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1373130819911 During the course of the interview talk I present four songs that hold a special significance for me … Continue reading
Posted in bande dessinée, comic book poetry, comics, montreal, Poetry, Poetry Comics
Tagged cbc radio, comics, interview, nantali indongo, poetry, the bridge
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Check out my interview for The Bridge on CBC Radio!
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by Nantali Indongo for CBC Montreal’s arts and radio program The Bridge. In addition to discussing my comics projects and the relationship between poetry and comics, I will talk about four songs … Continue reading
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Tagged cbc radio, comics, interview, nantali indongo, poetry, the bridge
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“Before the Battle” by Siegfried Sassoon
In honour of Remembrance Day and of the hundredth anniversary of the end of WWI, an adaptation of a poem by my favourite war poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon (1886-1967) wrote this poem only a few days before the Battle of … Continue reading
The Iguana
Anna Maria Ortese’s 1965 novel L’iguana (translated into English from the original Italian as The Iguana in 1987) tells the tale of Count Aleardo, a wealthy young Milanese aristocrat who arrives on a tiny island off the coast of Portugal … Continue reading
Talk at the Visual Arts Centre
Tomorrow evening I’ll be giving a talk on the curious relationship between two art forms: poetry and comics! The event is free of charge and all are welcome. Hope to see some of you there!
Posted in bande dessinée, comics, Poetry, Poetry Comics
Tagged centre des arts visuels, galerie mcclure, talk, visual arts centre, westmount
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Le Grand Meaulnes
Today marks the 104th anniversary of the death of the French novelist Alain-Fournier. Henri Alban-Fournier (Alain-Fournier was a pen name) was killed in action on September 22nd, 1914, the last day of summer, at the onset of a long dark … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, World War One
Tagged alain-fournier, color pencils, le grand meaulnes
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259th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham
On the morning of September 13, 1759 -also a Thursday like today- a British army under the command of General James Wolfe defeated a French army under the command of the Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm just outside the walls of … Continue reading
Below Isola San Giulio
Like its larger and more well-known neighbours, Lake Maggiore and Lake Como, Lake Orta (il lago d’Orta) in Northern Italy is remarkably deep, measuring almost 150 metres at its deepest point. Given this fact, and the documented existence of dragons … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, watercolour
Tagged isola san giulio, italian lakes, lago d'orta, lake monsters, lake orta, underwater
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Registration open for my art classes at the Visual Arts Centre!
I’m very excited to be teaching two courses this Fall at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount: “Initiation à l’illustration/Introduction to Illustration” on Thursday mornings from 10am-1pm and “La bande dessinée et le roman graphique/Comics and the Graphic Novel” on … Continue reading
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