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Sergio Corazzini – The Death of Tantalus – La morte di Tantalo

Posted on September 17, 2012 by julian peters comics

Here is my translation of a beautiful Italian poem written in 1907 by Sergio Corazzini. Poor Corazzini died of tuberculosis (what else?) a few weeks after writing this, at the age of only 21. I know it may be a little unclear what exactly he is going on about, but in that respect I think my translation is quite faithful to the original. I am thinking of adapting this poem into comics at some point, either in English or in the original Italian.

The Death of Tantalus

We sat by the edge
Of the fountain in the vineyard of gold.
We sat in silence, weeping.
My sweet friend’s eyelids
Swelled up behind her tears
Like two sails
In a gentle sea breeze. Continue reading →

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Painting Intervention: “Trouble in Paradise”

Posted on August 31, 2012 by julian peters comics

Painting is fun, but I’m generally too lazy to paint a whole painting myself. That’s where painting interventions come in: I’ll buy a paint -by-numbers or a cheap reproduction from a thrift store, and add a personal touch in oils. Here’s one I did today, starting with an idyllic scene of a couple running joyfully through a mountain valley. Credit to Dino Massaroni for the original painting (1989).

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Sketches

Posted on August 21, 2012 by julian peters comics

My pencil drawings for a proposed science-fiction comic for a French publisher. Unfortunately these drawings did not match the scriptwriter’s vision, but there is a possibility that further projects may come out of it. Here’s hopin’.

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Talk at the Keats-Shelley House

Posted on May 22, 2012 by julian peters comics

“Now then, poetry comics…”

On Thursday, June 7, I will be giving a talk at the Keats-Shelley House (in Rome!) on the subject of adapting classic poetry into comics. I will also be taking part in the awards ceremony for a children and young adults’ poetry competition that will take place the next day, also at the Keats-Shelley House.http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/news/julian-peters-at-ksh-on-thursday-9-june-at-3pm

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Bataille de bouffe pour un continent

Posted on May 8, 2012 by julian peters comics

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham as a food fight. I proposed this comic for the annual comics competition organized by Hachette Canada, whose theme this year was “food”. I unfortunately did not win, but the creation of these pages did give me a valuable opportunity to experiment with colour, and with a more cartoony style. In the remainder of the comic, the French and British were to launch numerous other characteristic food items, including french fries, “ragout de boulettes”, cheddar and haggis (courtesy of the Fraser’s Highlanders). In the end, among the smouldering (and delicious) battle debris, poutine was to be discovered.

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Posted on April 18, 2012 by julian peters comics

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“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” at the Keats-Shelley House

Posted on March 22, 2012 by julian peters comics

To my great delight, my comic book adaptation of John Keats’ “la Belle Dame Sans Merci” is to be included in an exhibition taking place this year at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/ The show, entitled “Illustrating Keats”, will include images from all the major illustrated editions of Keats’ poetry from 1856 onwards, as well as some contemporary interpretations of his extremely visually-inspiring works. The originals of three of the pages of my comic are already in Rome awaiting the tremendous honour of being hung on the walls of the very house in which one of the greatest poets to ever wield the English-language spent his final days (before dying of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five). The show runs from April 9 to November 24.

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Code-Barres magazine, number 3

Posted on March 9, 2012 by julian peters comics

The new issue of Code-barres magazine, on the theme of “indécence”, and containing a 2-page spread of sensual erotica by yours truly, is now available in magazine stores throughout the province of Quebec and in Ottawa. A word of warning: The drawings are so indecent that they will probably bring about the collapse of our entire bourgeois value system, resulting in a period of anarchy and destruction that will eventually pave the way for a new golden age of free love and 24-hour slam poetry coverage on all TV channels (viewing will be mandatory). http://codebarresmagazine.com/?p=323#more-323

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Jean Berger Project Q & A

Posted on February 17, 2012 by julian peters comics

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 art inspired by this rather scoundrelous character that will be held at Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery between April 30 and May 25. Here is a link to the exhibition website, with a little interview with yours truly: http://jeanbergerproject.tumblr.com/

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Le bateau ivre par Arthur Rimbaud

Posted on September 4, 2011 by julian peters comics

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 the English version, the haulers swinging from painted stakes on the first page are fully clothed, while in the French version they have now been completely undressed. Although I tried to keep both the original French text and the translated English version I was using in mind at all times while creating the accompanying drawings, I overlooked the fact that, unlike in the English translation, the haulers are specified by Rimbaud to be “cloués nus”, thus adding an element of sexual humiliation to the deaths of these metaphors for societal restraints at the hands of irrational freedom, represented by the “peaux-rouges”.)