Blogobédématique!
La bande dessinée est de plus en plus à la mode sur les blogues. Les succès des Pascal Colpron, Eva Rollin, Simon (de Ton papa me fourre) et Zviane, entre autres, ne se démentent pas. Dans tous les domaines artistiques que couvre la blogosphère, il est sans conteste que la BD, avec son alliage de visuel et de textes punchés et simples (en tout cas, pas comme cette phrase...), cartonne solide! (Bon, je me reprends un peu...)
Mais le problème, c'est que le dessin n'est pas à la portée de tous, loin de là! Quoique, le dessin de notre ami Simon n'est pas ce qu'il y a de plus difficile... mais on en redemande et c'est très bien ainsi. Alors qu'il occupe déjà ce créneau, il serait bien mal vu de trop s'en rapprocher...
Si ça vous intéresse quand même de plonger dans la création de BD pour le plaisir, je viens de découvrir, via le blogue Roget.biz, un site qui permet de créer facilement des « strips » (de 3 cases) et de les publier sur un blogue hébergé par le site, nommé : Strip generator. C'est simple comme bonjour! Il y a une banque de personnages, de formes, d'objets, et on ajoute des bulles en y inscrivant le texte. Bien sûr, vous pouvez aussi les publier sur votre propre blogue.
C'est certain que cette formule a ses limites, et que c'est très typé comme style, mais qui sait, peut-être que cela vous fera découvrir un talent certain pour la scénarisation ou vous poussera à parfaire votre crayonné afin d'aller au-delà des limites du programme.
The Tories are committed to cutting $44.8-million in spending on arts and culture by April of 2010, The Globe and Mail has learned.
As criticism of recent cuts continues, most recently from the mayors of Montreal and Toronto in a joint letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, details of several new cutbacks are emerging.
The Conservatives have earmarked 10 programs and parts of another to be eliminated and will reduce spending on two others, after a "strategic review" process that audited all Canadian Heritage programs for efficiency and effectiveness.
All but one cut falls under the Heritage purview, the lone exception being the previously reported $4.7-million PromArt, a grant program for foreign travel administered by Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
“To listen to some in the arts community and the opposition, you would think that there's blood in the streets,” says the Prime Minister's communications director, Kory Teneycke. “When we find examples of programs that are clearly not meeting their objectives, without apologies we will cancel them.” (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)
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The most expensive of five new cuts approved in February was the $11.7-million Canadian Memory Fund, which gives federal agencies money to digitize collections and mount them online. Also chopped were the $3.8-million Culture.ca Web portal; the $560,000 Canadian Cultural Observatory; the $5.64-million research and development component of Canadian Culture Online; and the $2.1-million Northern Distribution Program, which distributes the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network signal to 96 Northern communities.
Funding to the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and the Canada Magazine Fund will also drop by $1-million and $500,000 respectively.
July brought another round of cuts, a Heritage Department spokesman said, which included the previously reported $300,000 Audio-Visual Trust, the $1.5-million Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, the $2.5-million National Training Program for the Film and Video Sector and the $7.13-million Trade Routes, in addition to cuts and reductions totalling $3.4-million to the Stabilization Project and Capacity Building elements of the Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program.
The departments says a rarely advertised $500,000 annual fund - part of the Sustainability program designed to rescue arts organizations on the brink of extinction - has also been axed, after helping rescue four groups on the brink of disaster in the past six years: the Winnipeg Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic and Théâtre du Rideau Vert received $250,000; and the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal received $100,000.
Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay and Toronto Mayor David Miller's joint letter to Mr. Harper, which decried a perceived reversal in a generous Conservative approach to the arts, only added to the exasperation of the Prime Minister's communications director, Kory Teneycke.
"To listen to some in the arts community and the opposition, you would think that there's blood in the streets," he said.
"When we find examples of programs that are clearly not meeting their objectives, without apologies we will cancel them. That is the entire purpose of Strategic Review. We owe that to taxpayers," Mr. Teneycke added, calling PromArt "a boondoggle."
