Author Archives: julian peters comics

“Annabel Lee” comic in Mamut

Posted on April 4, 2016 by julian peters comics

My adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annable Lee,” appears in the latest issue of Mamut, a semi-annual  Spanish-language magazine based out of Barcelona and dedicated to sci-fi, fantasy and horror culture. It’s a thrill for me to be included in … Continue reading →

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“Graphic and Digital Keats: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ in Poetry Comics” – An Article by Brian Bates

Posted on March 9, 2016 by julian peters comics

Brian Bates, a Romanticism scholar teaching at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California, has published an article on the subject of three graphic adaptations of John Keats’s 1819 poem, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.” Along with my … Continue reading →

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Redecoration

Posted on March 4, 2016 by julian peters comics
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Poetry Comics Presentations at Collège Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean

Posted on March 1, 2016 by julian peters comics

Last Tuesday, I gave three presentations (two in French and one in English) to the students of the Collège Militaire Royal in Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu. The subject was my work adapting classic poetry into comics. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and was … Continue reading →

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“Le mani” by Vittorio Sereni in “Atelier”

Posted on February 26, 2016 by julian peters comics

My adaptation of the poem “Le mani” (“The Hands”) by the Italian poet Vittorio Sereni (1913-1983) appears today in “Atelier”, Italy’s leading online poetry magazine. View the full 1-page comic on their website here: http://www.atelierpoesia.it/portal/it/poesia-arte-it-mul/comics-by-j-peters-mul/item/358-le-mani-di-vittorio-sereni

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“Dora Markus” by Eugenio Montale (English translation)

Posted on February 1, 2016 by julian peters comics

A couple of months ago, I created a comics adaptation of an extract from the poem “Dora Markus” by Eugenio Montale (1896-1981). The comic was commissioned by Atelier, Italy’s leading online poetry magazine. I subsequently asked my old collaborators Dr. … Continue reading →

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J. Alfred Prufrock on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!

Posted on January 16, 2016 by julian peters comics

Last night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert featured a “Friday Night Fights” showdown pitting T. S. Eliot’s coffee-spoon-wielding time murderer J. Alfred Prufrock against Darth Vader’s grandson and known Universe disturber Kylo Ren, from the new Star … Continue reading →

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Prufrock in The Hindu Business Line

Posted on January 2, 2016 by julian peters comics

Happy New Year to all! Eight pages from my comics adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” comic were featured in yesterday’s issue of BLink, the arts and culture supplement to The Hindu Business Line, … Continue reading →

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Ungaretti’s Dead Comrade Identified? – An Article by Mario Colombo

Posted on December 23, 2015 by julian peters comics

One hundred years ago today, on the 23rd of December, 1915, Giuseppe Ungaretti wrote what would become one of the most famous Italian poems of the First World War,  the very short but infinitely moving “Veglia” (“Vigil”). The 27-year-old poet … Continue reading →

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Frank Sinatra for Aklasu Magazine

Posted on December 9, 2015 by julian peters comics

An illustration to accompany an article by Q. V. Hough on the essential loneliness of Frank Sinatra, published in Aklasu Online Magazine. You can read the article here: https://aklasu.co/mag/deep-dream-sinatra-100/

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