Category Archives: comic book poetry

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

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

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”

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

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

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!

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!

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

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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Annabel Lee in “Now Then” (Manchester, Sheffield)!

My comics adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” is featured in this month’s issue of Now Then, an arts and culture magazine distributed in Manchester and Sheffield, England (On pages 16-17, use arrow keys to scroll). http://issuu.com/nowthenmanchester/docs/nt_mcr8_web

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Prufrock on Driftory

My comics adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is being featured on the website of Driftory, a new comic viewing webapp created by Ian Gilman, and inspired by the writings of Scott McCloud (Understanding … Continue reading

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