PFC USA

Designed by the ChiFouMi association in 2009, Pierre Feuille Ciseaux (or Rock, Paper, Scissors in English) is a collaborative experimental comics residency featuring an international lineup of cartoonists working to expand the comics medium.

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PFC ARTIST JILLIAN TAMAKI!

Jillian Tamaki is a Canadian cartoonist and illustrator. She is the co-creator of the graphic novel Skim (with Mariko Tamaki), which was listed as one of the New York Times’ Best Illustrated Books of 2008 and was nominated for four Eisner Awards. Her second collaborative work with Mariko Tamaki, the graphic novel This One Summer, was a New York Times Bestseller, won the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award, and became the first graphic novel to be given a Caldecott Honor. Tamaki’s most recent work is 2015’s SuperMutant Magic Academy, for which she has won two Ignatz Awards.

Want to see more of Jillian’s work, click here!

And don’t miss your chance to support PFC5 threw our kickstarter and get some cool swag from our artists!

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The books are finally ready! (Featuring @jwillemscomix's beautiful ink hands)

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Book production assembly line for the #pfc5 book! #comics

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I’m in Minneapolis at the moment, for a comics residency-lab with a bunch of great artists, thanks to Association Chifoumi.  This is a collaborative work between me, Pascal Matthey and Charles Burns. We are all working on a book that you can pre order HERE If you happen to be at Autoptic Festival next week end, you could probably get it there.

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Order the amazings thing’s we’ve produce at PFC here : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pfc5/pierre-feuille-ciseaux-5

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End of PFC5 in-studio celebration!

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Collaborative illustration from @calamitymagnet & @dirtbagg. Beautiful!

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Creating a continuous landscape with @andersbrekhus

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Prepping for some screen prints tomorrow! #pfc5 #screenprinting #posters

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Mpr news lettin the world know what we’re about.  WE ARE NOW ONLY TWO DAYS AWAY! HOLY SHIT!

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MPR talking about Autoptic, including a lot of PFC #5 Artists!

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WE DID IT! PFC5 Kickstarter update.

Thanks to all of y'all's help PFC 5 is funded with time to spare! But lets not let that momentum die! Now is the chance to start laying the foundation for PFC 6 so we can keep exploding the boundaries of the comic art form.

AND, as a thank you, we have a few goodies to announce! The first is that our 26-ish page book is now going to be a beautiful 48 page monstrosity. The book is coming together beautifully and the covers are being screen printed as we speak, so keep an eye out on our Instagram (@pfc5usa) and twitter (@pfc_usa) for updates!

The second announcement is our first stretch goal! If we reach $7,500 for the kickstarter we will be releasing a digital book of some of the best 30 minute restriction comics done by the artists during the week of PFC. Anyone who donated $30 or more would receive a copy! These comics are very rarely seen outside of the residency or gallery setting. Here's a sneak a preview of a couple of those comics and the exhibition space!

Thanks again for all your support, we could not have made this happen without all of you! To view more updates and donate to PFC #5, visit our Kickstarter

Vive PFC!

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Regram from @calamitymagnet of a Charles Burns x-ray. #pfc5 #comics

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Sneak peak of the #pfc5 poster! This beautiful art by #laurappark!

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WE MADE IT! The kickstarter has been funded, but there are a lot more books and posters left so let's keep it going! Here's a preview of what's to come! ⚡️⚡️

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Pierre Ferrero and Dominique Grass examine Nylso's contribution to a PFC constraint. #comics #pfc5

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We hit $5,000 on kickstarter! We're so close you can almost see the co... Oh, you can see the comics. #pfc #comics #kickstarter #thankyou http://kck.st/1HMVhnH

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PFC ARTIST LAURA PARK!

Self-deprecating, honesty, humor, and a lot of talent: these are the ingredients of Laura Park’s work. The autobiography is once again at the forefront of the creative approach of this young author, who has decided to share with her readers the news of her thyroid cancer in 2012. One could then imagine sinking into an unbearable pathos, but it is not so : the exquisite humor, without any compromission, is reigning in her designs, when she shares her surgery or even when she discovers the hospital bill…

We realize then that the work of Laura Park has a discreet side all the time. The observation of everyday details, the world surrounding, her criticism : this gives a bitter taste to her sketchworks and to this kind of intimate diary.

Her delicate work and a kind of fantasy anchored in reality goes with a beautiful control of inking and coloring. This talent earned her to be rewarded with a Ignatz Award and nominated for an Eisner Award. Laura Park is a member of the Trubble Club, a collective of designers in Chicago. She has illustrated several books for the youth edition, award winner and rewarded (Middle School and I Funny, written by James Patterson) and his comics were published especially in magazines: Mome, Superior Showcase, the Best American Comics, Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Vice magazine, saveur.com and Nickelodeon editions.

Want to see more of Laura’s work, click here!

And don’t miss your chance to support PFC5 threw our kickstarter and get some cool swag from our artists!

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Exercise finished! Watch for some pictures of those to come!