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Comics
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
Author Archives: julian peters comics
Preview of video for Heresy’s musical adaptation of “Prufrock” featuring images from my comic
Heresy is a New York-based progressive rock band that has been playing together since the 70s. A few months ago they released Prufrock, their first album since 1989, which includes a 16-song suite setting to music “The Love Song of J. … Continue reading
White on Black Sketch #2 “Thinking of You” (Shuidiao Getou) – a poem by Su Shi
In honour of tonight’s full moon, a white-gouache-on-black-paper sketch inspired by a poem by the 11th-century Chinese poet Su Shi (also known as Su Tungpo). The poem is set to the traditional Chinese melody “Shuidiao Getou” (“thinking of you”). You … Continue reading
Posted in drawings, illustration, painting, watercolour
Tagged dancing with my moonlit shadow, 蘇軾, full moon, shiudiao getou, su shi, su tungpo, thinking of you, 水調歌頭, 水调歌头
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White on Black Sketch #1
Fantasy landscape painted in white opaque watercolour on black paper. The composition and perspective are a little wonky because I started painting directly on the blank page (or rather black void), inventing the scene as I went along.
Posted in illustration, painting, sketches, watercolour
Tagged fantasy, gouache, guitarist, landscape, opaque, titanium white, white on black
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Massacre at Saint-Joachim
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
Posted in comics, new france, nouvelle france
Tagged abbe portneuf, bataille, battle, Battle of the Plains of Abraham, massacre, quebec, saint-joachim, siege
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Leonard Cohen in The Tower of Song
Posted in illustration, montreal, painting, Poetry, watercolour
Tagged leonard cohen, tower of song
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Translation of a Montreal song from 1709
Back in 2012, I created a comic based on the lyrics of a song written in 1709 by the Montreal painter, money forger, and jailbird Jean Berger (1681-?). Jean Berger was suspected of being involved in the beating of Saint-Olive, the … Continue reading
Posted in comics, Jean Berger, montreal, new france, nouvelle france, Poetry translation
Tagged concordia, eighteenth-century, fofa gallery, independent, Jean Berger, winning writers
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Interview with Arjun Chaudhuri for Teksto.in
Teksto.in is a new online news, information, and entertainment magazine published weekly out of Assam, India. Today’s issue features an online interview that I gave to Arjun Chaudhuri, a Teksto.in patron and an Assistant Professor of English at Gurucharan College, … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged arjun chauduri, arjun chouduri, assam, g.c. college, gurucharan college, india, silchar, teksto.in
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Anniversary of The Battle of The Plains of Abraham
Two-hundred and fifty-seven years ago today, on September 13, 1759, a British army under the command of General James Wolfe defeated a French army under the command of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm just outside the walls of Quebec City. Wolfe’s victory … Continue reading
Posted in bande dessinée, comics, new france, nouvelle france
Tagged foulon cove, graphic novel, montcalm, quebec, the battle of the plains of abraham, vaudreuil, wolfe
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English Translation of Émile Nelligan’s “Déraison” and “Le Fou” in Winning Writers
The latest issue of the Winning Writers (https://winningwriters.com/) newsletter is out today, and it features my comics adaptation of nineteenth-century Montreal poet Émile Nelligan’s “Déraison” and “Le fou”, now accompanied with my English translation of the two poems. I am reproducing … Continue reading
Posted in comics, Emile Nelligan, montreal, Poetry translation
Tagged déraison, insanity, le fou, Nelligan, newsletter, the madman, winning writers
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