Author Archives: julian peters comics

The Bombardment of Quebec

Posted on August 16, 2016 by julian peters comics

First draft of a brief extract from from my ongoing graphic novel project recounting the siege of Quebec City and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

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Le Poète Public honours me with a poem!

Posted on July 30, 2016 by julian peters comics

A couple of days ago, one of my Italian students brought me a poem about me by Robert Séguin, Montreal’s very own public poet. Le Poète Public has set up his made-to-order poetry booth on Prince-Arthur Street, just next to … Continue reading →

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Experimentation with white on black drawing

Posted on July 27, 2016 by julian peters comics

In an effort to imitate the great early twentieth-century wood engravings by such artists as Lynd Ward, but without having to figure out how to do actual wood engravings, I thought I would try my hand at drawing on black … Continue reading →

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Sneak Peek at Battle of The Plains of Abraham Graphic Novel (Sample Section)

Posted on July 25, 2016 by julian peters comics

I am currently at work on a graphic novel recounting the siege of Quebec and the Battle of The Plains of Abraham in 1759. In revisiting this pivotal moment in Canadian history, my intention is not simply to present a … Continue reading →

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Graphic Poetry: My article on Dino Buzzati’s “Poema a fumetti” in Image [&] Narrative

Posted on July 20, 2016 by julian peters comics

                    My article on Dino Buzzati’s proto graphic novel  Poema a fumetti (1969) appears today in the new special issue of Image [&] Narrative, a peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology and … Continue reading →

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“Graphic Note Taking” at the Ottawa Art Gallery

Posted on July 13, 2016 by julian peters comics

Tomorrow evening, July 14, I will be taking part at an event at the Ottawa Art Gallery in downtown Ottawa. How Deep Is Your Rhizome? is a multimedia exploration of such wide-ranging but curiously interconnected issues as old-growth forests, gift economies, … Continue reading →

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“Partners in Rhyme”: Oscar Wilde’s “Impression du Matin” in Atelier Magazine

Posted on July 11, 2016 by julian peters comics

The latest issue of Atelier, Italy’s foremost contemporary poetry magazine, is now out, and I’m honoured to be featured in it with a comics adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s short poem “Impression du Matin” (1881). The comic is accompanied by an … Continue reading →

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Comics in the Museum

Posted on May 19, 2016 by julian peters comics

Comics scholars Chris Reyns-Chikuma and Sean Caulfied of the University of Alberta are preparing a kind of meta- exhibition that will examine different approaches to exhibiting comics. They are calling on any interested students, scholars and artists to  send in … Continue reading →

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Sous mon lit de métal by Cato Fortin

Posted on May 10, 2016 by julian peters comics

Here is my adaptation of an extract from a poem by the Montreal poet Cato Fortin. The adaptation was created as an initiative of the Université de Montréal undergraduate literary journal Le Pied http://lepied.littfra.com/ for a series of “Poster Poems” … Continue reading →

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Interview for The Oakland Arts Review

Posted on April 22, 2016 by julian peters comics

The Oakland Arts Review is a new international undergraduate literary journal published out of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Their inaugural issue, which came out this March, featured a number of my poetry comics, and also included an interview … Continue reading →

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