Author Archives: julian peters comics

Interview with Arjun Chaudhuri for Teksto.in

Posted on September 17, 2016 by julian peters comics

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 →

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Anniversary of The Battle of The Plains of Abraham

Posted on September 13, 2016 by julian peters comics

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 →

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English Translation of Émile Nelligan’s “Déraison” and “Le Fou” in Winning Writers

Posted on September 1, 2016 by julian peters comics

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 →

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“I am in Bed with You, too” by Emma Barnes for New Zealand National Poetry Day

Posted on August 31, 2016 by julian peters comics

This August 25th, as part of New Zealand’s National Poetry Day, Victoria University of Wellington’s Wai-te-ata Press hosted Transpositions, an event celebrating New Zealand women poets and their translators. One of the event’s organizers, Francesca Benocci (My “Partner in Rhyme” … Continue reading →

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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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