Exposition Le Monde de Franquin – Cité des Sciences, a companion site for an exhibition exploring the technological imagination of one of my favorite cartoonists, the incredibly hilarious André Franquin. [via The Cartoonist.]

Franquin was one of the giants of francophone comics and cartooning, but has only rarely been published in English. Naturally enough, the few pages of his work I’ve seen in English were published in the late eighties in a Fantagraphics comics anthology.

Tuesday night at dinner, the subject of what to do while in Los Angeles came up.

I described a few of the interesting sights found at the celebrated Museum of Jurassic Technology to our guests. The Museum has been the subject of a book, and a radio piece, and apparently published a book cited in this 1995 issue of Wired. The book covers an exhibition that I have seen, “No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again: Letters to Mount Wilson Observatory 1915-1935,” a collection of the writings of cranks over the long years to the Mount Wilson Observatory. Others have written or posted about the place as well.

Kyle Marquis, in particular, did the legwork, unearthing this tale of a visit.

MonkeyFilter | Curious George: Who is John Stewart?

A monkey who lives under the proverbial rock wants to know what all the fuss is about. Fellow simians muddy the waters, with such gems as flashyboy‘s explanation, fingerng Tucker Carlson as rock singer and Stewart as a small-time actor.