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

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 present capital with a monumental sculpture celebrating the enduring friendship between their two cities. The sculpture was created by the famous sculptor Dinorfi (a native-born Okronan) and depicts three allegorical figures: two standing male figures representing the cities of ..read more

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 in various forms of kovenesiko, dishes of raw fish in fermented fish sauce. Kovenesiko, a name which means “old and new,” are usually enjoyed with a glass of resinated white wine, with which the nopichi are abundantly stocked. The fourth ..read more

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 most famous sonnets, “God’s Grandeur.” If you would like to get a free copy of the full four-page comics adaptation, you can do so by signing up to the Jesuits’ website via this link: https://www.jesuits.org/hopkins ..read more