AUTOPTIC is pleased to announce its partnership with the International experimental comics laboratory/ residency Pierre Feuille Ciseaux (or PFC)!
PFC (“Pierre Feuille Ciseaux”, or “Rock Paper Scissors” in French) is an experimental comics laboratory formerly 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.
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. All of the artists listed below will be in attendance at AUTOPTIC. Confirmed artists include: Eleanor Davis, Kevin Huizenga, John Porcellino, Lisa Hanawalt, Lilli Carre, Jim Rugg, Tomasz Kaczynski, Domitille Collardey, Genevieve Castree, Marc Bell, 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), and Max de Radigues (Bruxelles, Belgium).
When André was 12, he was already over 6 feet tall and weighed 240 pounds. He was too big to fit on the local school bus and his family didn’t have the money to buy a car that could deal with his weight if it drove him to and from school.
Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize winner (literature) and esteemed playwright, probably most noted for Waiting for Godot, bought some land in 1953 near a hamlet around forty miles northeast of Paris and built a cottage for himself with the help of some locals. One of the locals that helped him build the cottage was a Bulgarian-born farmer named Boris Rousimoff, who Beckett befriended and would sometimes play cards with. As you might’ve been able to guess, Rousimoff’s son was André the Giant, and when Beckett found out that Rousimoff was having trouble getting his son to school, Beckett offered to drive André to school in his truck — a vehicle that could fit André — to repay Rousimoff for helping to build Beckett’s cottage. Adorably, when André recounted the drives with Beckett, he revealed they rarely talked about anything other than cricket.
The mailman brought in the above: straight off-the press, the cover of Sammy the Mouse Book 2! Zak Sally will be on the Graphic Novel panel (Sunday, June 9th at 11:15 on the Mash Stage) at the Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend! We should have a few advance copies available just in time! The book will debut at CAKE the following weekend!
Offical AUTOPTIC 2013 Poster by Anders Nilsen.
Though we’ve been working hard for the last two months getting AUTOPTIC into proper shape, it has been a while since we’ve had something to share with you. Well, that is all about to change! We’re going to be making some really exciting announcements next week.
But, in the mean time, we thought that we’d get you primed for all the good news by sharing Anders Nilsen’s amazing AUTOPTIC Poster, which sneaks in a few guest announcements of its own…
We hope you love the poster as much as we do. And, if that happens to be the case, then we should also let you know that there will be limited edition prints of the poster for sale at AUTOPTIC on August 18th.
See you then!
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Francine Bergé in Judex (1963).
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estoy de un ñoño que no me aguanto.
My new book of cartoons “You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack” is out now. Details are here.
"Si le film est mauvais, bien insister sur le fait qu’il s’agit de l’adaptation d’une BD pour se dédouaner. S’il gagne des récompenses, ne mentionner à aucun prix la BD en question sous peine de décrédibiliser le film."
- L’Art de la Production Cinématographique (Chapitre 5, paragraphe 3)
