Pierre Feuille Ciseaux

PFC4 (Pierre Feuille Ciseaux #4) / Minneapolis, MN / August 12-18, 2013

10 May 2013

PFC 4 : Experimental French Comics laboratory reaches the US
Minneapolis hosts international event Pierre Feuille Ciseaux

Minneapolis welcomes the first NORTH AMERICAN EDITION of Pierre Feuille Ciseaux or: PFC 4 August 11-17, 2013 hosted at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

PFC#4 visual


PFC (“Pierre Feuille Ciseaux”, or “Rock Paper Scissors” in French) is an experimental comics laboratory held on the grounds of  a 17th century salt factory (Saline Royale, Arc et Senans) in rural France. Beginning with its first incarnation in 2009, PFC has brought an international group of cartoonists, illustrators, printmakers and artists together for one week, with no distractions. The artists live, eat, sleep and work together with one sole focus: to create new work in a collaborative setting.
The primary purpose of the residency is to explore and invent new ideas about the Comic Art form (“Bande Dessinée” in French) through collaboration (often across language barriers) and experimentation (using the French experimental tradition of “OuBaPo” restrictions as a catalyst). On the final day, the results of the week’s collective work are displayed in a gallery setting, and the public is invited to interact with the artists in the form of workshops and public talks.

For this, the first North American edition of the PFC, its originators, June Misserey and members of Association ChiFouMi, will be coming to the U.S. to co-lead PFC 4 with Barbara Schulz, head of the Comic Art Department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Zak Sally (cartoonist and US liaison to the PFC), and cartoonist Anders Nilsen. Featuring a group of ten North American comics authors as well as 6 artists from France and Belgium, the week-long comics laboratory will be held in association with and hosted by MCAD, where the artists will live and work for the duration of the residency.
An exhibition of the week’s work will be presented to the public on August 17th, in MCAD‘s Concourse Gallery.

Confirmed artists include:
from North America :
• Eleanor Davis (Athens, GA)
• Kevin Huizenga (St. Louis)
• John Porcellino (Beloit, WI)
• Lisa Hanawalt (NYC)
• Lilli Carre (Chicago)
• Jim Rugg (Pittsburgh)
• Tomasz Kaczynski (Minneapolis)
• Domitille Collardey (NYC)
• Genevieve Castree (Anacortes, WA)
• Marc Bell (Toronto)
from Europe :
• Sandrine Martin ( Paris, France)
• Emilie Plateau (Bruxelles, Belgium)
• Benoit Preteseille (Angouleme, France)
• Pierre Ferrero (Lyon, France)
• Jean-Christophe Menu (Paris, France)
• David Libens (Bruxelles, Belgium)
• Max de Radigues (Bruxelles, Belgium)

PFC 4 overlaps and interacts with a major retrospective of the work of Jaime Hernandez, renowned creator of “Love and Rockets” in MCAD‘s main gallery (with the artist in attendance for the closing event, Friday August 16), as well as Minneapolis’ first “festival of independent culture”, AUTOPTIC, on Sunday August 18th.

More news and details in the days to come.

Published in PFC#4, 2013

Punk Mini-comics in Dijon ! February 9th !

30 January 2013

Good news !
The year sounds well for ChiFouMi.
We will tell you more about many actions which will be very important in the next few months… so remain connected !
But now, see you on the February 9 at the Médiathèque Champollion for our first working group of the year : let’s create zines on the punk movement and its history. Our friends from Affiche Moilkan will be charged to realise the cover.
 More informations on the website of the médiathèque Champollion, at Dijon.

Champollion Punk !
And… ! Below are some pics of the very successful meeting and reading of this last thursday ! We had the privilege to welcome Anders Nilsen, at the Ateliers Zone Art, at Besançon.
Anders will be tomorrow at Angoûlème : he is one the nominated authors at the 2013 Festival International de la Bande dessinée d’Angoulême : we wish him the best, and we thank him for his generosity and disponibility ; as for Patrick Marcel who did an amazing translation of Anders last/next book, “The Rage Of Poseidon” ; and without forgetting L’Association for their precious help in this proposition.
And of course a great thank you to all the people who came to the meeting of this precious author !

Anders Lecture

Anders rencontre / public

More really soon !

Published in / ChiFouMi in action

Ce Qui Nous Lie (“What Is Linking Us”) is over…

21 October 2012

…but it is not a reason to hibernate !

First of all, we want to thank the authors, the publishers and all the stakeholders (without forgetting the generous volunteers !) who made of this exhibition a very successful event !

You were almost two thousands people to come to visit the exhibition « Ce Qui Nous Lie » and to be present at the events we organized around this one. Many of you told us that they enjoyed our work and we really want to thank you for this !

Now, here is the next meeting : from the 15 of November, at the Ateliers Zone Art, for the market of the local artisans, at 37 rue Battant, at Besançon.

Indeed, the association ChiFouMi will stand of Little Ephemary Bookstore with the selection of comics we love and defend by our actions : books from the independant publishing, the alternative publishing, the micro-publishing… We are impatient to suggest you our choices !

La Petite Librairie Ephémère ChiFouMi

Please to note too : many authors will come to show their work and their books.

The firt of these meetings will stand with Gilles Rochier, on the 22 of November at the Ateliers Zone Art. Please check our website to be informed of the next dates !
So… see ya !

CQNL rencontre Lucas Nancy
Meeting at local bookstore in Poligny “La Nouvelle Librairie Polinoise” with Nancy Peña and Lucas Varela.
CQNL projection dans la marge
The long night of short movies at the Kursaal – Cinéma de la Scène Nationale in Besançon.
CQNL panoramaTerhi Jonathan Ronald
Terhi Ekebom, Jonathan Larabie and Ronald Grandpey in the very middle of Besançon.
CQNL Guibert Sandales
One of the greatest moments in bookstores this year, with Emmanuel Guibert
CQNL Nancy Lucas panorama
Nancy Peña and the argentinian Lucas Varela dig Besançon !
CQNL Terhi 16
Terhi Ekebom (from Finland) on her mural painting in local restaurant Seize in Besançon.
Les auteurs et étudiants juste avant de démarrer les 24 heures de la bande dessinée !
Authors and students right before the very start of the 24hours comic book 2013 !
Gilles Rochier visite
French fav Gilles Rochier tells young students about his autobiographic work during the exhib.
Tanxxx Autodidacte
The one & only Tanxxx during her cutwood demo/meeting at the L’Autodidacte bookstore.
CQNL visite guidée
One of the many, many guided tours of the main collective exhibition, with June.
CQNL signature Daisuke
What is hiding behind each Daisuke Ichiba incredible drawings…
CQNL lires démontage
The dismantling, the books… The end !
CQNL les bénévoles et les cadres !
The ChiFouMists are dismantling and sort of tons of frames…

Published in Ce Qui Nous Lie, 2012, The Little Bookstore

“Dans La Marge”, more (short) movies…

11 October 2012

On Thursday October 11th, The Cinéma de la Scène Nationale of Besançon invites ChiFouMi for a carte blanche on the occasion of Ce Qui Nous Lie, our winter collective exhibition.
Here is its brief presentation release, thanks to its team for giving us this great opportunity :

“Movies and the comic art form have a common imagination and fascinating stories to share. The association ChiFouMi, now familiar to our movie theatre, works all year long to promote creative and progressive comic art form as the exhibition Ce qui Nous lie can testify (Gymnase-cultural area of the IUFM at Fort griffon in Besançon, from September 13th to October 17th).

On this occasion, ChiFouMi invites us to explore new graphic and narrative forms through a large selection of movies, cartoons, videos, video clips and visuals as well as sound experimentations which are as many possible pathways between both the drawing and the motion picture universes.

These various works which are far from movies theatres public view gain prominence thanks to the web as they often testify of inventiveness and freedom of tone that compete with their lack of economic support.

They are created by cartoonists, benefit from their contribution from a way or another or reveal some of their significant inspirations.

Some remarkable works that now belong to the history of the film industry will tag this program, such as: Les Oiseaux sont des cons from Chaval, Les Temps morts from Laloux and Topor or another short film from the way too rare Jan Svankmajer.

© Chad VanGaalen.

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Published in Ce Qui Nous Lie, 2012

Jose Muñoz in Besançon.

26 April 2012

We’re invited to such a nice event by our friends of the association Pas Serial S’Abstenir : the 15th edition of the Festival des Littératures Policières Noires et Sociales (Social and Crime Literature festival), located in the Kursaal in Besançon, on May the 19th and 20th. (*).

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Published in / ChiFouMi in action, / Partners and friends.

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