Category Archives: watercolour

Christmas on Rue Champigny

Posted on December 24, 2020 by julian peters comics

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 →

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Video of “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower” by Dylan Thomas

Posted on December 17, 2020 by julian peters comics

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 →

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Views of an Imaginary City 2: The Teposensuki or “Lovers’ Bridge”

Posted on November 18, 2020 by julian peters comics

The Teposensuki (“Sensuka Bridge”) is the widest and most monumental of the bridges spanning the Juminta River in the central area of the city known as the Kadini (“Nest”). It is also notable for being the sole bridge in the … Continue reading →

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Views of an Imaginary City 1: Entering Sensuka Bay

Posted on November 12, 2020 by julian peters comics

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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Video of “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Posted on November 9, 2020 by julian peters comics

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 →

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Two Montreal Views in the Style of Ukiyo-e Prints

Posted on October 15, 2020 by julian peters comics

Two scenes from near where I live – an alley in Côte-Saint-Paul and a view along the aqueduct in Verdun – rendered in a style that tries to imitate that of the nineteenth-century Japanese ukiyo-e prints by such artists as … Continue reading →

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Video of “may my heart always be open to little” by e e cummings

Posted on September 23, 2020 by julian peters comics

A delightful interpretation by Jim Avis of one my poetry comics, this time my adaptation of “may my hear always be open to little” by e e cummings. The original comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can be found in … Continue reading →

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Video of “Somewhere or Other” by Christina Rossetti

Posted on August 7, 2020 by julian peters comics

A very sensitive video adaptation by Jim Avis of my comics interpretation of Christina Rossetti’s poem “Somewhere or Other.” I find this one makes particularly effective use of Avis’s signature zooming technique. The terrific reading is by “the Wordman” and … Continue reading →

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Video of “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

Posted on July 27, 2020 by julian peters comics

Another video interpretation by Jim Avis of my comics interpretation of the poem “Those winter Sundays” by the American poet Robert Hayden (who by the way studied under W. H. Auden, who was featured in the last Jim Avis video … Continue reading →

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“Carl Sagan: You Are a Star”

Posted on July 8, 2020 by julian peters comics

A comics introduction to the life and thought of the celebrated astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan, written and storyboarded by Junaid Yahya. Like the “Hound of the Baskervilles” adaptation, this comic was commissioned for inclusion in the grade-school textbook … Continue reading →

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