Author Archives: julian peters comics

Complete “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” comic available for order!

Posted on May 23, 2018 by julian peters comics

I have finally gotten around to publishing a high-quality, glossy printed edition of my comics adaptation of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (see post below). These comics are now available for order for $15 … Continue reading →

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Julian Peters Comics at TCAF 2018!

Posted on May 10, 2018 by julian peters comics

This weekend, for the first time, I will have a booth at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, which takes place Saturday and Sunday, May 12-13, at the Toronto Reference Library and other satellite venues downtown: http://www2.torontocomics.com/ I will be peddling my … Continue reading →

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Giovanni Drogo first lays eyes on the Bastiani Fortress -From Dino Buzzati’s Tartar Steppe

Posted on March 26, 2018 by julian peters comics

[My second, not necessarily more successful attempt at illustrating a scene from Dino Buzzati’s 1940 novel the Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei tartari in the original Italian). Giovanni Drogo, a young army officer is on his way to the Bastiani … Continue reading →

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My comics adaptation of Robert Frost’s “Birches” in Plough Quarterly!

Posted on March 20, 2018 by julian peters comics

A couple of months ago, the American magazine Plough Quarterly commissioned me to create a visual interpretation of an extract from Robert Frost’s 1916 poem “Birches.” The comic is now up on their website: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/robert-frosts-birches and will appear in their … Continue reading →

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Giovanni Drogo first lays eyes on the Bastiani Fortress

Posted on March 19, 2018 by julian peters comics

I consider this one a failure, mainly because of compositional issues. Nonetheless, there are some salvageable elements that could be put to use in a second attempt:   There they go, Giovanni Drogo and his horse, see how small they … Continue reading →

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Infinite Splendour of Krishna

Posted on March 5, 2018 by julian peters comics

In Chapter 10 0f the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Khrisna elaborates on his transcendent nature. He is to be found within all things, but above all, as he tells his interlocutor, the warrior Arjuna, he is to be conceived of and … Continue reading →

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Registration Open for my Comics Course at the Visual Arts Centre!

Posted on March 1, 2018 by julian peters comics

I am excited to announce that this Spring, beginning April 26, I will be teaching an 8-week course titled “Comic Book Illustration/Illustration de Bande-Dessinée” at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount. Classes will be held on Thursday evenings from 7 … Continue reading →

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Massacre at Saint-Joachim

Posted on February 28, 2018 by julian peters comics

Throughout their siege of Quebec City in the summer of 1759, the British went about systematically raiding and destroying the French settlements both upriver and downriver from the capital of New France. During one such raid on the village of … Continue reading →

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My “Annabel Lee” comic a teaching tool in India!

Posted on February 20, 2018 by julian peters comics

I recently received my complimentary copy of the “Active Teach Lighthouse Grade 5 Coursebook” a school textbook for English second language learners in India, published by Pearson India Education Services in Chennai.  The textbook includes my 6-page comics adaptation of … Continue reading →

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Little Red Riding Hood

Posted on February 14, 2018 by julian peters comics

In honour of Valentine’s Day, an unintentionally sexually suggestive illustration of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. In setting out to depict this scene for a homework exercise in a watercolour class I’m taking, I purposefully set … Continue reading →

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