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 Impressions (Pearson India Education Services, 2020). My thanks again to Arushi Lakhanpal and Resha Hasnain for their help throughout the creation process.
A comics introduction to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes mystery, “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” This comic was commissioned for inclusion in the grade-school textbook Impressions (Pearson India Education Services, 2020). The script is by Junaid Yahya. Many thanks to Arushi Lakhanpal and Resha Hasnain for shepherding this project through. And a big thank you to Montreal Sherlockian Edith Pounden for her useful feedback!
Here is the Chinese version of a promotional comic that I drew for the new MA Programme in Comics Studies at the University of East Anglia (the first English-language program of its kind in the world), which is being headed up by my dear friend Frederik Byrn Kohlert. The student in the back row at the bottom of the second page is modelled on Sanmao, a beloved Chinese manhua (comics) character created in 1935 by Zhang Leping.
A big thank you to historian of Chinese comics Nick Stember for is invaluable feedback in creating the hand-drawn Chinese characters, and for laying out the typeset characters.
Another video interpretation by Jim Avis of another of my comics adaptations of an Emily Dickinson poem. This time it’s “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” The musical accompaniment is by perennialEnglish. My comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can be found in my new book, Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (Plough Publishing): https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poems-to-see-by
Another sensitive and ingenious adaptation of one of my poetry comics by Jim Avis. This time it’s the celebrated Emily Dickinson poem, “Because I could not stop for Death.” The reading is by the great Cynthia Nixon. The comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can be found in my new book, Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (Plough Publishing): https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poems-to-see-by
Follow this
link to read my visual interpretation of Philip Larkin’s poem “The Trees” (written in 1967) in a special Covid-themed issue of Plough Quarterly.
Here is a link to the interview I did a couple of weeks ago with Amanda LeClaire for her program “CultureShift” on WDET 101.9FM, Detroit’s National Public Radio station. In the interview we discuss my recently released book, “Poems to see By: A Comic artist Interprets Great Poetry”(Plough Publishing), with a particular focus on my comics adaptation of Maya Angelou’s poem “Caged Bird.” https://wdet.org/posts/2020/05/14/89599-poetry-takes-on-new-life-in-the-comics-of-illustrator-julian-peters/
Another video adaptation of one of my poetry comics by Jim Avis. This time it’s Seamus Heaney’s “The Given Note,” with a beautiful understated reading by the poet himself. This adaptation, along with 23 others, can be found in my new book, Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (Plough Publishing): https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poems-to-see-by
Another very sensitive video adaptation of one of my poetry comics, by James Avis. This time it’s my comics version of Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Darkling Thrush,” which was written on the 31st of December, 1900, a date considered by many at the time to represent the eve of the new century. This adaptation, along with 23 others, can be found in my new book, Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (Plough Publishing): https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poems-to-see-by
Another video adaptation of one of my poetry comics by James Avis. This time it is non other than “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot. I like the subdued simplicity of James’s reading, which, combined with the slow panning shots of the comics illustrations, creates a hypnotic but also strangely reassuring effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2TtFVWCDmI
