Category Archives: comics

Massacre at Saint-Joachim

Posted on November 28, 2016 by julian peters comics

Throughout their siege of Quebec City in the summer of 1759, the British went about systematically raiding and destroying the French settlements both upriver and downriver from the capital of New France. During one such raid on the village of … Continue reading →

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Translation of a Montreal song from 1709

Posted on November 15, 2016 by julian peters comics

Back in 2012, I created a comic based on the lyrics of a song written in 1709 by the Montreal painter, money forger, and jailbird Jean Berger (1681-?). Jean Berger was suspected of being involved in the beating of Saint-Olive, the … Continue reading →

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Anniversary of The Battle of The Plains of Abraham

Posted on September 13, 2016 by julian peters comics

Two-hundred and fifty-seven years ago today, on September 13, 1759, a British army under the command of General James Wolfe defeated a French army under the command of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm just outside the walls of Quebec City. Wolfe’s victory … Continue reading →

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English Translation of Émile Nelligan’s “Déraison” and “Le Fou” in Winning Writers

Posted on September 1, 2016 by julian peters comics

The latest issue of the Winning Writers (https://winningwriters.com/) newsletter is out today, and it features my comics adaptation of nineteenth-century Montreal poet Émile Nelligan’s “Déraison” and “Le fou”, now accompanied with my English translation of the two poems. I am reproducing … Continue reading →

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The Bombardment of Quebec

Posted on August 16, 2016 by julian peters comics

First draft of a brief extract from from my ongoing graphic novel project recounting the siege of Quebec City and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

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Sneak Peek at Battle of The Plains of Abraham Graphic Novel (Sample Section)

Posted on July 25, 2016 by julian peters comics

I am currently at work on a graphic novel recounting the siege of Quebec and the Battle of The Plains of Abraham in 1759. In revisiting this pivotal moment in Canadian history, my intention is not simply to present a … Continue reading →

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Graphic Poetry: My article on Dino Buzzati’s “Poema a fumetti” in Image [&] Narrative

Posted on July 20, 2016 by julian peters comics

                    My article on Dino Buzzati’s proto graphic novel  Poema a fumetti (1969) appears today in the new special issue of Image [&] Narrative, a peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology and … Continue reading →

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“Partners in Rhyme”: Oscar Wilde’s “Impression du Matin” in Atelier Magazine

Posted on July 11, 2016 by julian peters comics

The latest issue of Atelier, Italy’s foremost contemporary poetry magazine, is now out, and I’m honoured to be featured in it with a comics adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s short poem “Impression du Matin” (1881). The comic is accompanied by an … Continue reading →

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Comics in the Museum

Posted on May 19, 2016 by julian peters comics

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

Posted on May 10, 2016 by julian peters comics

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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