4PANEL 1

4PANEL #1

by Mark Laliberte (Editor, Author), Mark Connery, Jesse Jacobs

Featuring:
Mark Laliberte "Darkly Projected"
Jesse Jacobs "The Garden"
Mark Connery "Tricky Business"
Anuj Shrestha "Seed Soul Star"

Afterword by: Sean Rogers

In the pages of 4PANEL 1, creators Mark Connery, Jesse Jacobs, Mark Laliberte and Anuj Shrestha explore the 4PANEL strip form in unique and beautiful ways, each presenting a collection of new strips in a self-contained section of the book.

Each strip produced for The 4PANEL Project has its own small concern, but their cumulative effect help to reveal the magic that happens when this unique form — it’s in fact a constraint-based movement that’s been growing over the past few years, one that strives to reinvigorate the traditional four-panel format — is focused through the creative lenses of individual artists.

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Mark Laliberte is a Southern Ontario-based writer/artist/designer whose poems and pageworks have appeared in publications big and small, including Descant, Ink Brick, Poetry, prairie fire, Prefix Photo, subTerrain and Vallum. Recent solo books include asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther), BookBook (above/ground) and Explosive Comic (Swimmers Group). His writing has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council and the City of Windsor's Arts, Culture & Heritage Fund.

Laliberte is also a member of MA|DE, an exploratory collaborative writing entity, whose first full-length book of poetry, ZZOO, is set to debut with Palimpsest Press on their Anstruther Books imprint in Spring 2025 (pre-order a copy at https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo... ); they have also completed their next two collections, Alphabeticals and Detourism (forthcoming 2028).

Laliberte was editor and designer of the Canadian hybrid art/lit mag CAROUSEL (http://carouselmagazine.ca/) for a 20-year period (36 issues completed, 2002-23), publisher at the experimental comics press Popnoir Editions from 2016-21, and curator of the international constraint-based comics community The 4PANEL Project (https://4panel.ca/); he recently retired from all these positions to focus exclusively on his own work — and has now completed his latest manuscript, Circularities.