Aujourd’hui, de nombreux sites qui traitent de l’école ont fermé, en soutien du mouvement de grève. J’ai réalisé un dessin pour l’occasion libre de droit et que vous pouvez voir par exemple là , là , là , là , là ou encore sur les sites de cette liste . (Mais bizarrement pas sur ce site ).

Et parce qu’elle est toujours d’actualité, je rediffuse cette planche de l’album “Le journal d’un remplaçant ” que vous avez probablement tous déjà lu (sinon ça vous fait une bonne idée de cadeau de Noël ) et que j’avais dessiné à l’occasion de la grève du 18 janvier 2005 :

À lire sur leMonde.fr : Grève dans l’éducation : les revendications

20 ans après la sortie du premier tome, la saga des Chroniques de la Lune Noire s’achève aux éditions Dargaud. Pour marquer le coup, l’éditeur sort 3 couvertures différentes, représentant un triptyque signé Olivier Ledroit, alors que François Froideval planche déjà sur de nouveaux cycles !

Dans une interview au magazine Casemate, l’auteur annonce un tome 0 sur la jeunesse de Wismerhill, dessiné par Fabrice Angleraud, qui s’est déjà occupé du deuxième tome des Arcanes de la Lune Noire. En plus de cet album qui clôturerait bel et bien la série, le scénariste prévoit d’étendre son univers avec de nouveaux cycles courts – fini, les 20 années de saga –, situés 3000 ans après la fin des Chroniques. Si aucun dessinateur n’est encore annoncé pour ces nouvelles aventures, Olivier Ledroit se chargerait toujours de La Succube, présumé tome 3 des Arcanes de la Lune Noire.

De son côté, Cyril Pontet, dessinateur des aventures de Wis depuis le tome 6, nous a expliqué passer à autre chose, même s’il n’exclut pas, un jour, réaliser un des albums consacrés aux personnages secondaires de la série. «Â L’heroic fantasy dépeinte dans les Chroniques n’est plus celle qui a ma préférence. Trop de dragons, trop de magie qui tue la magie, trop d’objets miraculeux, trop de troupes ! Avec les années, je me suis tourné vers la low fantasy, la sword & sorcery ou les histoires historiques que j’aime teintées de mystères et de léger fantastique telles Murena ou la Complainte des Landes Perdues, préférant les intrigues à l’échelle humaine à celles à l’échelle d’un empire. Je suis également revenu à mes premières amours, les comics américains qui me firent découvrir la BD, la notion d’héroïsme et les rebondissements improbables, tous ces éléments qui me poussèrent vers le métier de dessinateur. J’ai d’ailleurs pour objectif de tenter une aventure, qu’importe la durée, dans le comics, peut-être chez DC ou Marvel, afin de réaliser un vrai rêve de gosse ! Qui sait ? »


Chroniques de la Lune Noire © Dargaud, Froideval, Pontet, Ledroit.

Âgé de 74 ans, Guy Peellaert est décédé le 17 novembre 2008. Avant d’être mondialement connu pour son travail d’affichiste au cinéma ou dans la musique, l’homme avait signé deux albums de bande dessinée dans la mouvance pop culture à la fin des années 60 chez l’éditeur Éric Losfeld, Les Aventures de Jodelle et Pravda la surviveuse, ce dernier titre étant cosigné avec le réalisateur Pascal Thomas. Peellaert est l’auteur, entre autres, des pochettes Diamond Dogs de David Bowie et de Pour nos vies martiennes d’Étienne Daho. Son livre le plus connu reste Rock Dreams réalisé avec le critique Nick Cohn dépeignant les rock stars des années 70, entre fantasme et réalité. “Bye bye” monsieur, comme le disait le sous-titre de son ouvrage et son site.

Prévue à l’origine pour être en ligne le 23 octobre, la nouvelle mouture du site Glénat s’est quelque peu fait attendre. Enfin disponible, cette évolution sent encore la peinture fraîche pour une version bien plus moderne. Previews, interviews d’auteurs, blog, tout est présent ici. Ne reste plus qu’à animer tout ce petit monde. En attendant, la meilleure partie du site reste l’espace dédié au livre de Zep et Tébo, Comment dessiner, où l’internaute peut s’essayer à dessiner un beau coucher de soleil et le voir se transformer en une paire de fesses poilues.

Les vampires vous connaissez ? Si tout le monde a en tête les caractéristiques propres à ces êtres de la nuit, la dessinatrice Yuna Kagesaki s’amuse à en prendre le contre-pied dans son shojo Chibi Vampire Karin, du nom de sa frêle héroïne. Ici, la demoiselle ne suce pas le sang des autres mais se vide du sien. Mieux, ses morsures inversent le caractère des victimes, un paresseux devenant ainsi un bosseur patenté. Ubuesque, et doté d’une famille vampire haute en couleur, la lecture est à recommander pour tous amateurs d’esprit franchement décalé.
En deux mots : Petit mais costaud
De Kagesaki, aux éditions Pika  - 160 pages - 7,95 €

Foram precisos mais de 15 anos, uma série de fugas (leaks) pré-lançamento e a detenção do blogger Kevin Cogill - que teve a audácia de publicar no seu blog nove dos 14 temas do álbum - para que os fãs que ainda restam dos Guns N’ Roses pudessem finalmente ouvir Chinese Democracy, o novo-velho álbum da banda.

O disco está desde hoje disponível para audição completa via streaming a partir da página dos Guns N’ Roses no MySpace a partir de 25 países do globo, incluindo Brasil e Portugal. Até ao momento, o disco já vai nas quase 700 mil reproduções. Na verdade e sem falar nas versões completas do disco disponibilizadas em sites de BitTorrent sem autorização de Axl Rose e companhia, duas canções - o tema-título e “Better” - já podiam ser escutadas desde há algumas semanas atrás em alguns sites de estações de rádio e música online.

O lançamento mundial exclusivo, marcado para o dia 23 de Novembro nos EUA, estará a cargo da cadeia de grandes superfícies comerciais Best Buy. O resto do mundo terá que esperar pelo dia seguinte. Estão a ver como a pirataria faz impulsionar a música? Se não fosse Kevin CoGill a colocar os tais nove temas para audição via streaming no seu blog, provavelmente ainda hoje não teríamos acesso ao disco e Axl Rose teria continuado a adiar o lançamento para as calendas gregas. 

Quanto à qualidade das músicas em si, apesar de não ser um grande apreciador do género (Rock Metálico) posso mesmo assim dizer com toda a honestidade que não é tão má como alguns dizem.

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YUI and Google

Most everyone knows that Google has really stepped up to the plate by helping many JavaScript library projects host their builds on the Google AJAX Libraries API. Apart from providing a central distribution point for these libraries, the bandwidth cost savings alone go a long way in helping frameworks service there users in a sustainable manner.

Google continues it’s commitment to helping out by adding the Yahoo UI to the growing list of supported JavaScript libraries.

Thanks to Vadim Spivak at Google and Dion Almaer (now at Mozilla) for helping to make this additional option available to the YUI developer community. We love that Google is supporting web developers in this way — grabbing YUI files from Google’s global infrastructure is a fantastic option to have.

This is great news for YUI developers who now have a choice of linking directly to YUI via yui.yahooapis.com and ajax.googleapis.com. YUI team lead, Eric Miraglia, has a great write-up on the YUI blog about this and goes into detail on how the framework’s users can take advantage of this new hosting option.

jQuery and Amazon CloudFront

With nearly 2.5 million requests per day to the jQuery website, the jQuery project team is constantly on the look out for ways to decrease hosting costs while still managing the growing number of requests for the site’s resources. Originally leveraging Amazon S3 for many of their static pages, the project has now turned to Amazon’s new CloudFront CDN. The change has allowed for jQuery pages to be globally hosted as opposed to being centrally located in Amazon’s Seattle-based S3 hosting center.

In tests, John Resig, team lead for the jQuery project, noticed substantial performance gains based on the switch:

I ran a similar test here in Boston and even managed to see a large improvement. I was seeing latency of anywhere from 50-200ms on Amazon S3, but only a latency of 17-19ms with CloudFront.

What does all of this mean? It means that the jQuery site is going to load even faster than it does now. We already receive some excellent hosting from Media Temple but being able to off-load these static files to the fast-loading servers will only make for a better browsing experience.

In less than 24 hours the project had received almost 2.5 million requests for over 50GB of data. The only drawback is an increase in bandwidth costs but still substantially less than that of a traditional hosting plan. The jQuery project makes use of the Google AJAX API as well and recommends it as choice for linking to the jQuery and jQuery UI libraries.

Ext JS and CacheFly

The team at Ext JS has taken an interesting approach to CDN usage by extending their library build manager to allow users to host their own custom build on the CacheFly CDN.

The hosting is free and what makes it unique to something like the Google CDN is that it allows Ext developers a central access point for their own custom builds.

We are pleased to announce that Ext has partnered with CacheFly, a global content network, to provide free CDN hosting for the Ext JS framework. Cachefly’s globally distributed network and aggressive caching accelerate the delivery of web content like JavaScript and CSS, making for an even faster Ext experience.

I’ve spent the past few days pretty immersed in the SC 08 conference here in Austin, Texas, but I’m still embarrassed that I missed the formation of a new lobbying organization think tank called The Future of Privacy that’s being funded by AT&T. The group hopes to help policy makers and business leaders figure out how to manage online privacy.

A big source of irony from the group, other than its purported focus on online privacy to benefit consumers and the industry alike, is that Co-chair Christopher Wolf also headed up one of my favorite astroturfing efforts, Hands Off The Internet, the phone company think tank dedicated to Net Neutrality. Somehow, that connection isn’t mentioned in his FOP bio. Wolf is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Proskauer Rose LLP, a firm that does work for AT&T. The other co-founder of FOP, Jules Polonetsky (here’s a great interview on his views on Internet privacy), was the former chief privacy officer at AOL. Prior to that he worked at DoubleClick, which was bought by Google.

The creation of the FOP is both a good thing and bad thing. It’s a sign that consumers worried about how their private information is collected and used on the Internet have been taken seriously. On the other hand, the backer and members of this particular organization are highly likely to influence legislators in a direction that will keep consumers’ data in their hands.

I hope that some of the more privacy focused representatives can cut through the corporate double-speak that I have seen firsthand from the telecommunications companies on other issues. Perhaps Google, which is not represented on the board, can start its own privacy think tank and we can watch the fight unfurl between caching private data for later use, and profiting from data as it travels through the ISPs’ pipes.

This issue of Internet privacy has gained more momentum in the last few months after ISPs contracted with a startup called NebuAd to monitor where a consumer surfs the web and serve ads against those visits. Other companies are trying this as well. Since then, Congress has held two hearings on online privacy, with one related to data collection and the other related to deep-packet inspection as employed by NebuAD and its ISP customers.

As the online experience becomes more interactive, the rules around of who’s watching us as we’re watching the web need to be defined. But in addition to worries about corporate spying, legislators and lobbying organizations should also take a close look at what governments can now access and use. For those of you following this space, the advisory board includes:

• Dorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, AT&T, who went before Congress to decry NebuAd’s tactics but noted that perhaps in exchange for lower rates a consumer might be willing to share more data with the ISP
• Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy, Facebook, the company that brought you the privacy nightmare known as Beacon
• Simon Davies, Director, Privacy International
• Peter Swire, a law professor at Ohio State University and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, who is advising President-elect Barack Obama on technology

I’ve spent the past few days pretty immersed in the SC 08 conference here in Austin, Texas, but I’m still embarrassed that I missed the formation of a new lobbying organization think tank called The Future of Privacy that’s being funded by AT&T. The group hopes to help policy makers and business leaders figure out how to manage online privacy.

A big source of irony from the group, other than its purported focus on online privacy to benefit consumers and the industry alike, is that Co-chair Christopher Wolf also headed up one of my favorite astroturfing efforts, Hands Off The Internet, the phone company think tank dedicated to Net Neutrality. Somehow, that connection isn’t mentioned in his FOP bio. Wolf is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Proskauer Rose LLP, a firm that does work for AT&T. The other co-founder of FOP, Jules Polonetsky (here’s a great interview on his views on Internet privacy), was the former chief privacy officer at AOL. Prior to that he worked at DoubleClick, which was bought by Google.

The creation of the FOP is both a good thing and bad thing. It’s a sign that consumers worried about how their private information is collected and used on the Internet have been taken seriously. On the other hand, the backer and members of this particular organization are highly likely to influence legislators in a direction that will keep consumers’ data in their hands.

I hope that some of the more privacy focused representatives can cut through the corporate double-speak that I have seen firsthand from the telecommunications companies on other issues. Perhaps Google, which is not represented on the board, can start its own privacy think tank and we can watch the fight unfurl between caching private data for later use, and profiting from data as it travels through the ISPs’ pipes.

This issue of Internet privacy has gained more momentum in the last few months after ISPs contracted with a startup called NebuAd to monitor where a consumer surfs the web and serve ads against those visits. Other companies are trying this as well. Since then, Congress has held two hearings on online privacy, with one related to data collection and the other related to deep-packet inspection as employed by NebuAD and its ISP customers.

As the online experience becomes more interactive, the rules around of who’s watching us as we’re watching the web need to be defined. But in addition to worries about corporate spying, legislators and lobbying organizations should also take a close look at what governments can now access and use. For those of you following this space, the advisory board includes:

• Dorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, AT&T, who went before Congress to decry NebuAd’s tactics but noted that perhaps in exchange for lower rates a consumer might be willing to share more data with the ISP
• Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy, Facebook, the company that brought you the privacy nightmare known as Beacon
• Simon Davies, Director, Privacy International
• Peter Swire, a law professor at Ohio State University and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, who is advising President-elect Barack Obama on technology