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DEBUTING AT TCAF 2018 - 4PANEL 2 by Various Artists

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!

Today is my birthday (hooray!), so I’m celebrating by posting a sneak peek of the inside of Charles, the book I illustrated for Fitzhenry & Whiteside!

Here’s the description from the publisher:

“Charles is a remarkable baby crow who has lost his mother. This is his story, and the story of his rescuer, intermixed with the story of some strawberries they shared. At times funny and whimsical, it is also a story of the power of the natural world and the ties of love that are never broken. In writing the story, Hume was inspired by his memories of taking care of an injured crow when he was growing up on a farm. Jessica Bartram's classic illustrations amply reflect the grace and timelessness of this tale.“

Art by Jessica Bartram on inprnt

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