Category Archives: comics

Comics in the Museum

Comics scholars Chris Reyns-Chikuma and Sean Caulfied of the University of Alberta are preparing a kind of meta- exhibition that will examine different approaches to exhibiting comics. They are calling on any interested students, scholars and artists to  send in … Continue reading

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Sous mon lit de métal by Cato Fortin

Here is my adaptation of an extract from a poem by the Montreal poet Cato Fortin. The adaptation was created as an initiative of the Université de Montréal undergraduate literary journal Le Pied http://lepied.littfra.com/ for a series of “Poster Poems” … Continue reading

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Interview for The Oakland Arts Review

The Oakland Arts Review is a new international undergraduate literary journal published out of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Their inaugural issue, which came out this March, featured a number of my poetry comics, and also included an interview … Continue reading

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“Annabel Lee” comic in Mamut

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

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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Poetry Comics Presentations at Collège Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean

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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“Dora Markus” by Eugenio Montale (English translation)

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!

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

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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Interview with Blues.Gr

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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