Author Archives: julian peters comics

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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Interview with Blues.Gr

Posted on December 7, 2015 by julian peters comics

I recently gave an interview to Michalis Limnios of Blues.Gr, an online forum dedicated to the promotion of blues music in Greece. I’m feeling quite honoured, as Limnios has conducted interviews on behalf of Blues.Gr with a number of the … Continue reading →

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White after Labour Day: A History and Guide

Posted on November 24, 2015 by julian peters comics

An illustration to accompany an article in Aklasu Online Men’s Magazine on the subject of that great taboo of the Kennebunkport set: Daring to wear white after Labour Day.  You can read the illuminating article by Justine Smith here: https://aklasu.co/mag/white-labour-day-history-guide/

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Julian Expozines Himself Once Again (Sunday only)

Posted on November 13, 2015 by julian peters comics

Once again this year I will have a table at Expozine, Montreal’s comics and zine fair, FOR THE SUNDAY ONLY (November 15). The fair takes place in the basement of L’église Saint-Enfant-Jésus du Mile-End (5035 St-Dominique Street), from 12h-18h. http://expozine.ca/en/

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“Dora Markus” by Eugenio Montale in “Atelier” Magazine

Posted on November 12, 2015 by julian peters comics

My adaptation of a passage from the poem “Dora Markus” by the great Italian poet Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) 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/poesia-arte/comics-by-j-peters/dora-markus-di-eugenio-montale/313 Curiously, Montale originally … Continue reading →

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“In Flanders Field” by John McCrae (1915)

Posted on November 11, 2015 by julian peters comics

In honour of Remembrance Day, I am reposting my adaptation into comics of “In Flanders Fields) the famous WWI poem by John McCrae. The poem was originally created as part of my residency at the Victoria University of Wellington in … Continue reading →

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Rambo Illustration in Aklasu Magazine

Posted on November 10, 2015 by julian peters comics

Here is an image I produced to illustrate an article for Aklasu Online Magazine, on the subject of the “new Golden Age of action hero TV.” You can read the excellent article by Dylan Moses Griffin here https://aklasu.co/mag/good-bad-badass-golden-age-action-hero-television/ The image … Continue reading →

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