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Comics
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
Author Archives: julian peters comics
“Witch-Wife” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Here is my adaptation of an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem first published in 1917. In her wonderful biography of Millay, Savage Beauty, Nancy Milford describes “Witch-Wife” as “clearly something of a self-portrait,” and that is the interpretation that I … Continue reading
Posted in comic book poetry, Poetry, Poetry Comics
Tagged Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy Milford, redhead, Savage Beauty, Witch-Wife
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“And Suddenly It’s Evening”
Here is an English version of my comic-strip adaptation of the Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo’s iconic poem “Ed è subito sera” (“And suddenly it’s evening”):
My first Italian poetry comic! – “Ed è subito sera” by Salvatore Quasimodo
I have begun a collaboration with the Italian poetry magazine Atelier (http://www.atelierpoesia.it/) in which I will periodically provide comics versions of classic Italian poems for their website. Here is my adaptation of Salvatore Quasimodo’s 1930 poem “Ed è subito sera” (“And … Continue reading
Italian Erotic Comics at the CSSC Conference
I will be presenting a paper at the conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics, which takes place this weekend in Toronto, May 8 to 10, in collaboration with the Toronto Comics Art Festival. My presentation, which is based … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, dino buzzati
Tagged 1960s, CSSC, fumetti neri, italian erotic comics, poema a fumetti, TCAF
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Volume 2 of Le Canon graphique now in stores!
The second volume of the French-language edition of The Graphic Canon, Russ Kick’s terrific anthology of graphic adaptations of the classics of world literature, is now available in fine bookstores near you (assuming you live in a French-speaking country). In … Continue reading
“Sensuka”- A Poem by Alice Elm (English Version)
(In a post from a few months ago, I published a beautiful poem by the Montreal writer Alice Elm that was directly inspired by my on-going “Views of an Imaginary City” series. Now Alice has composed an English version of … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, Imaginary City, painting
Tagged Alice Elm, Diane G. Paquin, sehnsucht, sensuka, translation
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Funny pages
Although my comics are rarely all that comical, I do occasionally try for a laugh in writing. I have started gathering some of these attempts at humour together on a page on my website, here: https://julianpeterscomics.com/humour-writing/ More to follow!
Posted in humour
Tagged beat poetry, Goethe, mcgill university, onanism, sorrows of young werther, werther's originals
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New and Improved W. B. Yeats Comic!
The brilliant illustrator and artist Maryse Daniel has added digitally-rendered shading to my adaptation of W. B. Yeats’s “When You Are Old.” The shading imitates the screentone technique that was popular before the introduction of digital colouring. So now, thanks … Continue reading
Posted in comic book poetry, Poetry, Poetry Comics, William Butler Yeats
Tagged Clamp collective, Manga, Maryse Daniel, Mokona, screentone, shojo, When You Are Olde
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Nelligan à Cacouna
The Montreal writer and poet Diane G. Paquin and I have begun collaborating on a project (in French) centered around the famed Quebec poet Émile Nelligan (1879-1941). Here is a little preview. This scene is set in Cacouna, then a … Continue reading
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