Hello from Minneapolis !

Ok, let’s be honest : we’re running out of time here as there’s only one chifoumist at the moment, and well, between some workshops to prepare, the residency to adjust, and all the many, many rendez-vous that are making this very huge timetable, let’s say it clearly : this will be something, guys, that we hope will be as great as we feel it at the moment.
The ChiFouMi gang will be ready and in full effect in a few days and the news will start to invades this website (as for our facebook and twitter pages…), and before that, a few news things that comes up these last hours, after a long, slow roasting :

Jugglers !
Our man Anders Nilsen did it again. Not only he managed to get some art to show from this incredible bunch of talented artists that will be part of the PFC#4 thing, but he found out crazy ways to share it with people. Jugglers will happen at Co-Exhibitions, and the reception (with probably all authors and people involved in PFC#4 and Autoptic !) is tuesday, August 13th, from 7pm to midnight, as there will also be music for your ears, thanks to Zak Sally‘s Pretty Ladies latest awesome project.

Minneapolis, we are already totally in love with you.

(more Jugglers on facebook too)

French publisher ION on its way to Minneapolis !

People who check what PFC4 is all about already found out it should be a huge task to follow everything that will happen in Minneapolis these weeks. You already saw that at the end of the residency-laboratory week, there’s this Autoptic monster event. But before this, Minneapolis people will have a chance to see some great exhibition at the Minneapolis offices of the French Alliance, just next door to Autoptic’s spot : Benoit Preteseille’s ION exhibition.

PFC4 ION EXPO VISUEL

ION is a publishing structure that was founded in 2010 in Angoulême, France, which is run by Benoît Preteseille, cartoonist and auteur de bandes dessinées on his side.
With his ION inprint, he’s publishing books that center the notion of drawing, through a range of small pamphlets that evolves between artist’s books and collections of illustrations.
There’s plenty of treasures to discover here, unclassifiable works, comic-book artists, cartoonists, tatoo artists, photographers, that, aside their daily and usual main works, grow their own inconspicuous drawing practice, sometimes off the record, sometimes experimental. That’s precisely here that ION is digging, thirteen books are available already.

This exhibition is brought to you courtesy of The Alliance Francaise de Minneapolis / St Paul, Association ChiFouMi, Magelis and Région Poitou-Charentes.

Here’s a few examples of the nice things Benoit is publishing, and that are parts of the exhibition :

PFC4 ION EXPO POTTIER

(Etienne Potier ; more about his books here)

PFC4 ION EXPO CIOSSI

(Amandine Ciosi : more about her book here)

PFC4 ION EXPO GUERRIVE

(Sophie Guerrive ; more about her books here)

 

Minneapolis friends ! Don’t miss the Meet & Greet introduction/meeting at the Alliance Française (113 N 1st St, Minneapolis), on tuesday, august 13th, 5 pm. Benoit will be here for introducing this exhibition, but averybody of the infamous PFC4 adventure should be here too, and will be pleased to see you there !

PFC#4 : the authors.

(updated on july 5th)
The enthusiasm of the tandem 200% ChiFouMi (half north american, half french) is made of convinced and bound people who allowed us to keep on the main thing under Pierre Feuille Ciseaux : the line-up is strictly made of people that push things forward on their own corners, and we think all of them could form some bold and promising selection.
Young upcoming artists not so published, major player and figure of the progressist comic art scene : this fourth edition of PFC is made of a real nice assembly :

– Anders Nilsen
– Benoît Preteseille
– David Libens
– Domitille Collardey
– Eleanor Davis
– Emilie Plateau
– Eugène Riousse
– Geneviève Castrée
– Jean-Christophe Menu
– Jim Rugg
– John Porcellino
– Kevin Huizenga
– Lilli Carré
– Lisa Hanawalt
– Marc Bell
– Max de Radiguès
– Pierre Ferrero
– Sandrine Martin
– Tomasz Kaczynski

Some news from our next rendez-vous…

…that won’t happen nearby our usual base of operations (around Besançon), but where a few members of ChiFouMi will go, along a group of artists on our side, following the residency-laboratory Pierre Feuille Ciseaux #4 which is happening the week before this exciting event called Autoptic !
This super dope poster is done by Anders Nilsen, who is just proving each new day how great he is, but check it :

Autoptic poster 1

More news really soon !