Category Archives: comic book poetry

“I am a creature” by Giuseppe Ungaretti

Posted on August 13, 2014 by julian peters comics

Yet another adaptation of a WWI poem by the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, sensitively translated by Marco Sonzogni and Ross Woods. The comic is the product of an ongoing collaboration with Sonzogni and Woods, and with the New Zealand Centre … Continue reading →

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“Vigil” by Giuseppe Ungaretti

Posted on June 19, 2014 by julian peters comics

Here is my adaptation of “Veglia,” a short poem by the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti. The poem was translated into English by Marco Sonzogni and Ross Woods, two professors at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. This comic is … Continue reading →

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“Witch-Wife” in “Splitting the Genre: An Intersection of Poetry & Visual Art”

Posted on June 17, 2014 by julian peters comics

Six Arrow press is a new literary press based in San Diego. They have just released their first book, an anthology of creative combinations of poetry and visual art. I am pleased to announce that my adaptation into comics of … Continue reading →

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“Witch-Wife” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Posted on June 16, 2014 by julian peters comics

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 →

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“And Suddenly It’s Evening”

Posted on June 11, 2014 by julian peters comics

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”):

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My first Italian poetry comic! – “Ed è subito sera” by Salvatore Quasimodo

Posted on May 22, 2014 by julian peters comics

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 →

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Theorizing Poetry Comics

Posted on March 15, 2014 by julian peters comics

Nicolas Labarre has written a great article for his blog on visual culture on the subject of adapting poetry into comics. labelledame9 Although the article is in French, Nicolas demonstrates his ideas through a series of his own adaptations of … Continue reading →

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Volume 2 of Le Canon graphique now in stores!

Posted on February 27, 2014 by julian peters comics

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 →

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New and Improved W. B. Yeats Comic!

Posted on January 15, 2014 by julian peters comics

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 →

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Interview with Micah Mattix

Posted on January 6, 2014 by julian peters comics

Here is a link to an interview I recently gave to Micah Mattix for The University Bookman: http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-j.-alfred-prufrock/

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