Giacomo Joyce

Julian Peters is a comics artist and illustrator, who also teaches Italian Language and Culture at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada. In 2014, he obtained a master’s degree in Art History from Concordia University (Montreal) with a thesis focusing on two early, experimental graphic novels, Dino Buzzati’s Poema a fumetti (1969) and Martin Vaughn-James’s The Projector (1971). In 2015, he was Cartoonist in Residence at Wai-te-ata Press, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His debut collection of adaptations of classic English-language poems into comics, Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry, was published in 2020 by Plough Books. He is currently working on a follow-up volume, as well as a comic-book adaptation of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.