Category Archives: Poetry Comics

When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats (Manga Style)

Here is my adaptation of Yeats’ 1893 poem, done in the manner of a Japanese manga. The style is a tribute to the beautiful Shojo manga (girls’ comics) created by the “Clamp” collective in the early 90s.

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Jean Berger Project Q & A

As if adapting classic poems were too commercial, I am now working on a comic based on the lyrics of a a song written by an obscure turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Montreal painter, Jean Berger. The comic will appear in a show of … Continue reading

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Le bateau ivre par Arthur Rimbaud

Mon adaptation du poème “Le bateau ivre” par Arthur Rimbaud (1871) en bandes-dessinées. Une traduction anglaise de cette BD apparaîtra prochainement dans l’anthologie “The Graphic Canon” éditée par Russ Kick et publiée par Seven Stories Press: http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100888750 (Note that in … Continue reading

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The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud

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Here is my adaptation of an English translation of Rimbaud’s “Le bateau ivre” (1871).   This work was commissioned for the “The Graphic Canon”, the upcoming anthology of visual adaptations of classic works of literature edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press: http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100888750

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Les aventures de Rimbaud

                My first serious project in comics was a comic book biography of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, of which I completed 8 pages in late 2003/early 2004. I was attracted to Rimbaud as a subject in part out of a … Continue reading

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Coin Viger et Square-Victoria

This one-page comic originally appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of Code-barres magazine http://www.codebarresmagazine.com/ “At the corner of Viger and Square-Victoria Streets” -Think about it, my friend, -one day, -all of this -will be gone!

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats

My comic-book adaptation of the poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by John Keats (1819)

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Julian Peters Comics

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