The Islamic website Revolutionmuslim.com has allegedly threatened South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone with a fate similar to Theo Van Gogh for “insulting” the prophet Mohammad during it’s 200th episode. In that episode, Muhammad is depicted in a bear suit. Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker who murdered in 2004 for making a […]
To commemorate the second volume of the Bloom County Complete Library being released, USA Today is running select strips with commentary from Berkeley Breathed this week. The commentary today is about the eighties and Star Trek references. Q. In Ted Koppel’s intro to Bloom County: The Complete Library, Volume 2, he writes, “I never believed […]
Speaking of original Peanuts artwork, a Phoenix woman took her stash of original Peanuts art that she’s been buying up since 1950 to the “Antique Roadshow” hoping that they’d appraise enough help she and her husband retire. She estimated her collection was worth about $50,000, but the appraiser on the television show said that her […]
A great catch from Mike Lynch (who credit’s his dad, Dr. Lynch) for this letter to the editor in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette from Jean Schulz, wife of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz warning that not all the original drawings being auctioned off are authentic. Sally Kalson’s April 11 article (“From Peanuts to Picasso: Art Collection Is […]
I reported Steve Breen took home the Fischetti award. The noise level of the announcement was muted considerably by the Pulitzer announcement the day before. I’m glad to see Michael Cavna was able to interview Steve. Michael talks to Matt Wuerker who was this year’s recipient of the Herblock award .
Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore has told ComputerWorld that he has resubmitted his rejected iPhone app to Apple for reconsideration. Mark’s app was rejected last December. Since winning the Pulitzer last week and the rejection hit the blogosphere, Apple invited him to resubmit. According to ComputerWorld, a customer wrote to Steve Jobs himself pleading the […]