4PANEL 2

4PANEL #2

by Mark Laliberte (Editor), Drazen Kozjan, Jessica Bartram

Featuring:
Drazen Kozjan "Apparitions: Three Leaves from a Witch's Tree"
Jessica Bartram "Shifting"
Erik Nebel "Why Don't We Come Together"
Jonathan Dyck "Market"
Samplerman "Drawing Instants Falling Apart"
Fiona Smyth "Maw Spoke"
Hartley Lin "10 4PANELS"

Afterword by: Barbara Postema

In the pages of 4PANEL 2, artists Jessica Bartram, Jonathan Dyck, Drazen Kozjan, Hartley Lin, Erik Nebel, Samplerman and Fiona Smyth 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.

In all ways an expansion on its predecessor, the massive 4PANEL 2 anthology demonstrates the ability of individual creators to artistically test the generative nature of the constraint-based 4PANEL template; the wonderful works filling up this book display a range of visual and representational styles, and of visual and narrative structures — and, happily, the resulting sections these seven contributors offer up could not be more different!

Genres: Comics

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2018

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.