Panel One is a collective of comic creators, from all disciplines and all career stages, working together to put a spotlight on local, original work. The mission of Panel One is very simple: to work together to celebrate and promote the work being done by members, to turn heads towards the dedicated and talented people working in comics in Canada and to help one another succeed. When we first started Panel One, local meant Calgary. We thought we’d likely have some folks from Southern Alberta and Edmonton interested in joining, but it has grown to the point where local now means Canadian. We have members throughout Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba – we even have some Canadian members who are living and creating abroad in Ireland, Scotland and Singapore. Panel One isn’t exclusively about indie comics – though the majority of us are working on creator owned, independently published work and we do love indie! But we also have members who are working for IDW, Marvel and other industry publishers.