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Claudia Cardinale for Aklasu Magazine

Posted on September 2, 2015 by julian peters comics

Here’s my illustration or a recent article in Aklasu Online Men’s Magazine on the subject of the Italian actress Claudia Cardinale. You can read the aricle here: https://aklasu.co/league-hollywoods-misunderstanding-claudia-cardinale/ The drawing is done in coloured pencils on Fabriano paper.

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Spats for Aklasu Magazine

Posted on August 24, 2015 by julian peters comics

Here’s my illustration for an article appearing today in Aklasu Online Men’s Magazine on the subject of splatterdashes, or spats. Here’s hoping Justine Smith’s insightful piece helps contribute to the revival of these marvelous fashion accessories. I doubt I would ever be able to wear them myself, however, given the great difficulty I’d be sure to have in keeping them white. An ironic liability, I suppose, given spatterdashes original function as a means of keeping one’s shoes clean, but everyone knows that, when it comes to making an elegant impression, even just a dash of spatter dashes spatterdashes (sorry).

You can read the article here: https://aklasu.co/spats-evolution-fashion-icon/

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Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn for Aklasu Magazine

Posted on August 17, 2015 by julian peters comics

Here’s my illustration for an article appearing today on Aklasu Online Men’s Magazine. The article looks at the influence of classic “screwball comedies” on contemporary cinema. You can read it here: https://aklasu.co/great-screwballs-fire-emergence-neo-screwball-comedy/

My drawing is based on a scene from The Philadelphia Story (1940), starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.

Posted in drawings, illustration | Tagged aklasu, carey grant, katherine hepburn, kyle turner, screwball comedies, the philadelphia story | 5 Comments

“Sono una creatura” di Giuseppe Ungaretti (versione originale)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by julian peters comics

Last year, I created a comics adaptation of a translation of “Sono una creatura,” an Italian WWI poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970). The translation, titled “I Am a Creature” was done by Dr. Marco Sonzogni and Dr. Ross Woods of Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand): https://julianpeterscomics.com/2014/08/13/i-am-a-creature-by-giuseppe-ungaretti/
Here now is the same poetry comic with the original Italian words:

(Ecco la mia versione a fumetti di “Sono una creatura”, una poesia di Giuseppe Ungaretti del 1916:)

Posted in comics, Giuseppe Ungaretti, illustration, marco sonzogni, Poetry, Poetry Comics, Poetry translation, ross woods, victoria university wellington, World War One | Tagged carso, Dr. Ross Woods, fumetti, giuseppe ungaretti, i am a creature, san michele, sono una creatura, Victoria University of Wellington | 2 Comments

Lake Orta Sketchbook

Posted on July 22, 2015 by julian peters comics

I just got back from a holiday on Lake Orta, in Northern Italy. As has been demonstrated in a number of scientific studies, Lake Orta is the most beautiful spot on earth. It also happens to be where I spent much of my childhood. If I were the kind of artist who devotes a career to trying to capture the essence of a particular locale, Lake Orta would be where I’d park my easel. Since I don’t have the patience for such a life’s endeavour, all I can offer up is these black and white sketches, made on the fly.

Posted in drawings, illustration, sketches | Tagged italy, lago d'orta, lake orta, sketches | 9 Comments

“The Given Note” by Seamus Heaney

Posted on July 2, 2015 by julian peters comics

“The Given Note” by Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) first appeared in the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet’s second collection, Door into the Dark (1969). It was the only one of his poems to be read at his funeral. “The Given Note” takes its inspiration from the legend of the fiddler who brought back the Port na bPúcaí (The Fairies’ Tune) from the westernmost of Ireland’s most westernmost islands, the windswept and forbidding Blaskets. This adaptation of the poem into comics was done at the suggestion of Dr. Marco Sonzogni of Victoria University, Wellington.
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Posted in comics, Poetry, Poetry Comics | Tagged blasket islands, fairies' tune, fiddle, irish poetry, marco sonzogni, port na pbucai, Seamus Heaney, the given note | 12 Comments

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Comic at the Ellis Library (University of Missouri)

Posted on June 2, 2015 by julian peters comics

Much to my delight, several pages from my comics adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” are included in an exhibit currently being held at the Ellis Library of the University of Missouri. The exhibit commemorates the centenary of the poem’s first publication in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. It was organized by University of Missouri professor and Vice President of the T. S. Eliot Society Frances Dickey, with the assistance of the students in her Modern Literature class. I wish I could make it down to Eliot’s native Missouri to see it!

Posted in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, comics, illustration, Poetry, Poetry Comics | Tagged ellis library, frances dickey, prufrock centennary, T. S. Eliot, university of missouri | 2 Comments

“In Flanders Fields” in The Four Quarters Magazine

Posted on May 25, 2015 by julian peters comics

I am honoured to have my recent adaptation of John McCrae’s iconic WWI poem, “In Flanders Fields” (1915), featured in the newest issue of The Four Quarters Magazine, an online literary magazine based in India: http://tfqm.org/

Posted in new zealand centre for literary translation, Poetry, Poetry Comics, World War One | Tagged Flanders Fields, in flanders fields, india, john mccrae, literary magazine, the four quarters magazine, wwI | 3 Comments

“All Right There, Soldier?” by Vincent O’Sullivan

Posted on May 20, 2015 by julian peters comics

Last April, on the invitation of Dr. Marco Sonzogni, Director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation http://www.victoria.ac.nz/slc/nzclt, and of Dr. Sydney Shep, Director of Wai-te-Ata Press http://www.victoria.ac.nz/wtapress/, I took part in a month-long “cartoonist’s residency” at the University of Victoria of Wellington, in New Zealand. As detailed in a previous post, my role in the residency involves the creation of various visual responses to a number of WWI-related texts. On the request of the Canadian High Commission to New Zealand, which sponsored my visit, I created a comics adaptation of Canada’s most iconic poem of the First World War, John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields.” I also created this adaptation of a poem by Vincent O’ Sullivan, New Zealand’s current Poet Laureate. “All Right There, Soldier?” was written especially for this project, and can be read in part as a response to McCrae’s poem.

Hokitika is a town on the West coast of New Zealand’s South Island, and Newtown and Aro Street are traditionally working-class areas of Wellington.

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Posted in comics, marco sonzogni, new zealand centre for literary translation, Poetry, Poetry Comics, victoria university wellington | Tagged all right there soldier?, anzac, cemeteries, graves, marco sonzogni, new zealand, poet laureate, sydney shep, vincent o'sullivan, wai-te-ata press, wwI | 2 Comments

Duomo di Pioppi – Poplar Duomo

Posted on May 10, 2015 by julian peters comics

A few months ago I learned that my entry was among the five finalists in an international competition to create the cover image for an Italian graphic novel recounting the history of the city of Milan from an environmentalist perspective. Although I didn’t end up winning, I was pretty happy with my design proposal for “Medhelan: La favolosa storia di una terra” (Medhelan was the Celtic name for Milan), which is why I’m posting it here, along with the required “motivation statement.” The digital colouring was done by Maryse Daniel, whose fabulous artist website you should definitely check out: http://www.marysedaniel.com/
Poplar Duomo – Duomo di Pioppi
Julian Marco Peters
The image represents a row of poplar trees at the edge of a river –a common sight along the banks of the Po River and its tributaries, including the many waterways that once flowed through what is now the metropolitan region of Milan. The rows of poplars are reflected in the water, where they form a reverse image of the façade of the Duomo, Milan’s most iconic structure. Also reflected in the water are the electric wires of the Milan tram system, which crisscross the modern Milanese’s view of the sky from street level.
On the right side of the image, along the riverbank, a wild boar has come to drink. The wild boar was the tribal totem of the Aedui, one of the original Celtic peoples who are said to have founded Milan, and a woolly wild boar sow (the scrofa milanuta) was an early symbol of the city. In this image, the wild boar stands as an embodiment of the primeval wilderness of the Po valley. The approaching rider on the left with a spear resting on his shoulder is a hunter with his sights on the drinking boar. The depicted encounter can therefore be interpreted as a condensed manifestation of mankind’s destructive tendencies regarding nature.
Taken as a whole, this image of the “Poplar Duomo” recalls the forest, sacred to the Celts, on which Milan is built, and the linkages and disconnections between the modern-day city and its natural heritage.

Posted in comics, illustration, maryse daniel | Tagged celts, duomo, fumetti, medhelan, milan, milano, pioppi, poplars, star comics | 2 Comments