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Animation of “The Waste Land” comic by Jim Avis | julian peters comics
Vidietteer Jim Avis is back with a animated adaptation of my own recently-completed comics adaptation of "The Burial of the Dead," the first section of T. S. Eliot's immortal classic, "The Waste Land." The imagery is paired with a recital of the poetry by Eileen Atkins and everyone's favourite aristocratic British sex symbol, Jeremy Irons.…
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 15 | julian peters comics
After an extended travelling vacation break, I'm back with a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week (hopefully): The exciting (and definitely not dark) grand finale!
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 14 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I am publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). I am leaving on vacation tomorrow, so the next page will have to wait until my…
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 13 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week: The crowd flows on, and up and down!
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 11 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). The tarot designs are based on the Rider-Waite tarot deck, first published in 1909. It…
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 10 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week: A card which we are forbidden to see!
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 9 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week: Enter Madame Sosostris!
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 8 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week: A look into the heart of light!
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 7 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week: Frisch weht der Wind, mein Irisch Kind!
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 6 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Most of the various "broken images" in the first panel make reference to other portions…
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 5 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week: Heaps of broken images!
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 4 | julian peters comics
Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). (The main references in this section are to the reminiscences of Countess Marie Larisch, illegitimate…
“The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, page 1 | julian peters comics
Ever since completing my comics adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," I have wanted to do something similar with Eliot's most famous and celebrated poem, "The Waste Land." But besides being extremely complex and often difficult to interpret,"The Waste Land" (First published 1922) is very long, and this always…
“Il porto sepolto” di Giuseppe Ungaretti | julian peters comics
My graphic interpretation of the 1916 poem "Il porto sepolto" ("The Buried Port") by the great Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970). This comic originally appeared in the third issue of "Junior Poetry Magazine," an Italian magazine of poetry for young people. La mia "fumettizzazione" della poesia "Il porto sepolto" (1916) di Giuseppe Ungaretti. Questo fumetto…
Happy Holidays 2023 from Julian Peters Comics! | julian peters comics
In what has become a delightful seasonal tradition, once again this year I have designed the holiday card for the Montreal financial services firm ASSURART. The watercolour depicts a house on Rue Rielle, in the Verdun neighbourhood of Montreal.
“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins | julian peters comics
My comics adaptation of "Gods Grandeur,"a sonnet by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Considered one of the most influential poets of the 19th century, Hopkins converted to Catholicism in 1866 and eventually became a Jesuit priest. This comic was originally commissioned by the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States to mark…
Views of an Imaginary City 30: Sensuka-Okrona Friendship Garden in Rateliska Sesquicentennial Park | julian peters comics
The city of Okrona was the imperial capital, on and off, for more than eleven centuries (and it is still sometimes regarded as the empire’s cultural capital). On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the transfer of the imperial seat to Sensuka, the municipal government of Okrona decided to gift the citizens of the…
Views of an Imaginary City 23: Kadukaripaza in Korkidèh | julian peters comics
Kadukaripaza (Karipaza Square) in the Korkidèh neighbourhood is one of the most appealing spots in all the imperial capital. The square is lined on three sides with two-storey whitewashed buildings, all of which have a row of arcades running along the ground floor. Underneath these arcades are several inexpensive restaurants known as nopichi, which specialize…
“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins | julian peters comics
July 28 marks the 179th anniversary of the birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the celebrated English Jesuit priest who is considered one of the most influential poets of the 19th century. To celebrate Hopkins's birthday, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States commissioned me to create a comics adaptation of one of his…
Video of “Views of an Imaginary City: The Krokuta Burial Pits” | julian peters comics
Jim Avis's sensitive video interpretation of my admittedly quite bizarre imagining of an alternative funeral rite (though one inspired by traditional practices in East Africa). The pohutukawa is a real tree, btw, native to New Zealand. It's bright red flowers blossom in December, and for this reason it is also known as a New Zealand…
Views of an Imaginary City 10: View over Sensuka Harbour from Orepi | julian peters comics
We are looking southeast over Sensuka Bay from the great stone wharf at Orepi. It is very early morning, and the first sun’s rays have just caught the facades of the eastward-facing buildings on the right side of the print. Although much of the port is still shrouded in shadows, it is already bustling with…
Views of an Imaginary City 20: A Street in the Najirèh District | julian peters comics
20. A Street in Najirèh The outer district of Najirèh (“Empress”) is so named in honour of the empress Aritokèh, during whose reign the area’s first streets were laid out. It is located on a raised plateau surrounded by rice fields to the north, south, and east, and by the Golu Canal (See n. 38)…
Views of an Imaginary City 34: A Nizimoamuàri | julian peters comics
Two people walk past each other on a quiet street corner, both looking about their surroundings in an apparent state of reverie. The inscription tells us that we are looking at a nizimoamuàri, which could be translated as “a past or future love place.” (This is a somewhat awkward translation. The word muàri refers to…
Happy Holidays from Julian Peters Comics! | julian peters comics
This watercolour was commissioned by the Montreal financial services firm ASSURART Inc. for their 2022 company holiday card. Like the card I did from them in 2020, it depicts a scene observed on Rue Champigny, in the Côte-Saint-Paul neighbourhood of Montreal.
Les aventures de Marcel Proust : À la recherche du temps perdu | julian peters comics
Marcel Proust's seven-volume magnum opus, À la recherche du temps perdu, is often cited as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Four completed volumes in, I feel this is an assessment I could definitely see myself subscribing to. Long before I braved the first line of its first volume, however, Proust's novel cycle had…
Views of an Imaginary City 29: Interior in Korkidèh | julian peters comics
29. Interior in Korkidèh We are in the well-appointed bedchamber of an upper-class Sensukan home. The residence is located in the Korkidèh district, as is evident from the yellow-and-green tiled “seashell dome” of the Rimo temple visible through the door opening in the right foreground. As is typical of the homes of all Sensukans, rich…
“Stairway to Nowhere” Video | julian peters comics
The incomparable Jim Avis has been transforming some of the instalments in my recent "Views of an Imaginary City" into his trademark "vidiettes." Here is his take on "View 46: The Stairway to Nowhere at Tanaliska." More of these to come! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rid94wXSz8
View of an Imaginary City 48: The Stairway to Nowhere at Tanaliska | julian peters comics
According to Chogya beliefs, it is possible for individual souls to reincarnate into lives chronologically antecedent to the ones that they have just lived through. This would seem to open the door to a number of potential temporal paradoxes, were it not for the fact that the soul is reborn with the memory of its…
Quattrocento Waterfall | julian peters comics
It is a well-known phenomenon that, when one is feeling sick, all of the foods one normally finds delicious can come to seem entirely off-putting. Often at these times there are only one or two things one can bring oneself to eat, such as maybe a few soda crackers or a bowl of white rice.…
Happy Holidays 2021! A Glimmer of Hope on the Horizon? | julian peters comics
This year again I was commissioned by the Montreal financial services firm ASSURART Inc. to create an image for their company holiday card. The scene is set at the intersection of rue Hickson and rue de Verdun, a few blocks from where I live in the Verdun neighbourhood of Montreal.