Author Archives: julian peters comics

Le Grand Meaulnes

Posted on September 22, 2018

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 →

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259th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham

Posted on September 13, 2018

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 →

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Song from the Highest Tower

Posted on September 6, 2018

 

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Below Isola San Giulio

Posted on August 27, 2018

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 →

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Registration open for my art classes at the Visual Arts Centre!

Posted on August 2, 2018

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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El camino es fatal como la flecha

Posted on July 9, 2018

“El camino es fatal como la flecha/ pero en las grietas está Dios que acecha”(“The road is as fatal as an arrow/ but God is watching in the cracks.” -Jorge Luis Borges, from “Para una versión del I King”

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Comics adaptation of “Birches” by Robert Frost

Posted on June 27, 2018

Here is my comics adaptation of a section of the poem “Birches” by Robert Frost (written in 1913-14). This comic was commissioned by and originally appeared in the American magazine Plough Quarterly: http://www.plough.com/en Click here to read the complete poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44260/birches

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