It’s not because we’re across the ocean that we won’t wish an happy birthday to our good friend Charles Papier. (more…)

Some of the authors came to check the MCAD students works, and they are still amazed seing the quality of the artwork they saw. We’ll talk about all of this later, in the weeks to come, because we got plenty of things to share with everybody !
The students worked on many constraints and restrictions oriented works for one week with June from ChiFouMi, just before the residency, and they finally were asked to work on their own constraint exercise. All those students got skills, this is something that is just obvious.
During this second week coordinated by Barbara Schulz, the students kept on the idea, and well, just check the quality of the propositions (more will come soon !) : (more…)

The Phone exercise is going well, there’s even three that are in work in progress. The idea is quite simple, a first author draws a first panel then give the page to another author who copies the drawing in the following frame. Then, the second author hide the first panel with some post-it note and then pass it on to some third player. And then again, etc. (more…)

Friday, 10 AM, everybody is going back to work with a certain frenzy : the week passed so quickly, but there’s tons of works that needs to be pushed more and more tonight, tonight and… probably tomorrow, as certain residents looks like they REALLY want to make this PFC#4 some unforgettable moment.
And look who’s just arrived : Jaime Hernandez is in the place. The day will be crazy. (more…)

Between two big laughs (because we’re really have fun here while working really hard !) : “Oppression”, the new exercise that Jean-Christophe Menu asked to the authors, is a 6 frames suite of oppressives moments, that the author should had really lived between 9 and 14 years old. (more…)