Peterson’s award-winning artwork has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries throughout the United States, including the Ceres Gallery in New York City; the Brenda Taylor Gallery, the Atlantic Works Gallery and the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY. On May 15, 2009, Lennie Peterson will present artwork projections, created specially for a concert by The Knights – including arrangements and orchestrations of Franz Schubert"s music by Grammy- winning new music composer Osvaldo Golijov. The concert is sponsored by New York University's Institute for Humanities and will be held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts.
"The Big Picture," his nationally syndicated daily comic strip, appeared in more than 100 newspapers and was published as a book collection by Andrews McMeel Publishing. In addition, Peterson has written and illustrated nearly a dozen books published by CCC Publications.
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Big Top by Rob Harrell
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simpsonfan2 said, 8 months ago
Idiots who use phones while driving cause accidents. Make the ticket $500.
win said, 8 months ago
Confiscate the phone and make them come to the station house to retrieve it.
caller49 said, 8 months ago
Banned them from ever purchasing a phone again.
CAtransplant said, 8 months ago
Talking isn’t the problem when you have one button answering, a headset, and voice dialing. Texting and email are the problem.
MelvinLott said, 8 months ago
@simpsonfan2
Yup, I was nearly killed a few years back by someone who was exercising her rights by yakking away on a cell phone, paying no mind to those pesky traffic rules. I spent a few weeks in the hospital thanks to her talking to her friend. You know, the call couldn’t wait – she had to make it. Too bad I got in the way, right Lennie? Nothing personal, Lennie, but you’re fighting this battle on your own. By the way, the dog analogy doesn’t wash…
Elderflower said, 8 months ago
I know people who can talk on their cell, and do all their driving safely – even parellel park. Unfortunately, there seems to be way more people who only Think they can do that.
Of course, anyone who thinks they can text and drive is just plain dillusional.
burleigh2 said, 8 months ago
@CAtransplant
You’re exactly right, but it’s anything that takes attention away from driving. Whether it be an intense conversation (on the phone or with someone in the car), texting, or reading billboards, ANY distraction is bad, but the cell phone is what the police can prove. :-s
squirrelchaser said, 8 months ago
@MelvinLott
Don’t speak for me. Lennie is not fighting this on his own. Your opinion is obviously biased due to your personal experience. I do not advocate using a cell phone while driving, it’s a stupd thing to do. But if you remember the original comic, the point Lennie was making was the ‘criminalization’ of it, and as another example of taking away of rights by the state.
Lynne B
said, 8 months ago
@squirrelchaser
Tell me, do you also advocate for the “right” to drive drunk? Because the accident rate for cell phone use in cars is roughly the same as drunk drivers.
Remember that old saw about “the right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose”? You may have the right to do anything you want to yourself – but as soon as you start affecting other people, as you do on the road, then guess what – your “rights” are absolutely curtailed in order to protect the right of other citizens not to be killed or severely injured by your actions.
Lynne B
said, 8 months ago
@CAtransplant
Incidentally, this isn’t true; the accident rate for hands-free is the same as for not using hands-free. The issue is driver distraction, and the fact that drivers appear to react very differently to conversations over a phone than to conversations with someone else in the car.
http://www.bmj.com/content/early/2004/12/31/bmj.38537.397512.55
http://www.distraction.gov/research/PDF-Files/Driver-Distraction-Commercial-Vehicle-Operations.pdf