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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
Category Archives: illustration
Views of an Imaginary City 11: Along the Terenfi Canal
The Nachilaterenfi (“Canal of Flowers”) connects the Imperial Canal to Rejoma Bay. It is so named because, in its early days, before its surroundings became one of the most built-up areas of the capital, the banks of the canal were … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, Imaginary City, painting, watercolour, writing
Tagged canal, dotombori, dotonbori, gondola, imaginary city, imaginary places, japanese prints, perception of time, sehnsucht, time, ukiyo-e, water trade, watercolor
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Joe Biden reads “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
In honour of today’s inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, here is a video put together by Jim Avis pairing my comics adaptation of Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” with a more-than-competent reading … Continue reading
Views of an Imaginary City 7: Tizabu Park and Tizabu Prison
Sensuka, to be sure, is a place of endless fascination and delight, but it can also be a heartless place. When one enters Sensuka Harbour and first looks out upon the colonnaded wharves and polychrome marble facades rising from the … Continue reading
Christmas on Rue Champigny
This watercolour was commissioned by the Montreal financial services firm ASSURART Inc. for their 2020 company holiday card. It was very much inspired by the magical winter scenes by the Japanese printmaking artist Hasui Kawase (1883-1957). Although the image is … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, montreal, watercolour
Tagged assurart, christmas, christmas card, cote-saint-paul, hasui, holiday card, kawase, Montreal, quebec, shin hanga, snow, squirrel, watercolor, winter
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Video of “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower” by Dylan Thomas
A video interpretation by Jim Avis of my comics adaptation of one of Dylan Thomas’s first poems. Featuring a stirring reading by the poet himself. The original comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can be found in my new book, Poems … Continue reading
Video of “The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth
A very amusing video by Jim Avis, based on my comics adaptation of William Wordsworth’s c. 1802 sonnet, “The World Is Too Much With Us.” The reading is by Tom Hiddleston. 2020, a year in which, for many, the world … Continue reading
Video of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” read by Joseph Miller
The American actor Joseph Miller has put created this short video featuring his dramatic reading of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” combined with my comics illustrations of the same poem.
Views of an Imaginary City 1: Entering Sensuka Bay
Entering Sensuka Bay In this opening print of the series, the viewer is transported onto the deck of one of the steam-powered ferries linking Sensuka to Kadonde, on the other side of the Golden Strait. The steamer is rounding the … Continue reading
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Tagged imaginary city, imaginary places, japanese prints, sehnsucht, ukiyo-e
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Video of “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
A beautiful and moving video by Jim Avis, pairing my comics adaptation of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “Spring and Fall” with a musical interpretation of that same poem by Natalie Merchant. The original comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can … Continue reading
Video of “Conscientious Objector” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
With Halloween around the corner, here is a suitably eerie video adaptation by Jim Avis of my own comics interpretation of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Conscientious Objector” (1934). The poem is read by Natalie Rushing. The original comics adaptation, … Continue reading
