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 of “The Waste land” or to elements from my previous adaptation of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” How many can you identify? Bonus: Can you find Waldo? (seriously) Next week: Come in under the shadow of this red rock, and I’ll show you something different ..read more

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 daughter of Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria. Her cousin is Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who later took his life in a double suicide with his mistress in the so-called Mayerling incident.) Next week: What are the roots that clutch ..read more

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 iconic poem “The Waste Land.” Next week: Hold on tight ..read more

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 iconic poem “The Waste Land.” Next week: On in sunlight ..read more

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 deterred me from getting started. But in recent times, with a historical situation that in many ways mirrors that in which Eliot was writing, with a society emerging from a vast global collective trauma–made up of innumerable individual personal traumas–and a ..read more

My graphic interpretation of the poem “The Voice of God” by the American poet and author Mary Karr. This comic was originally commissioned by the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States with the permission of the poet ..read more

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 è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel terzo numero di “Junior Poetry Magazine,” la prima rivista di poesia per ragazzi in Italia ..read more

“There is a house in New Orleans, they call The Rising Sun, and it’s been the ruin of many a poor girl, and me, oh God, I’m one ..read more

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 the poet’s 179th birthday on July 28 of this year ..read more

A beautiful video animation by Jim Avis inspired by one of my “Views of an Imaginary City ..read more