"That's all folks"

IRVINE, CA -- After the new theft of "The Scream" by dint of Edvard Munch in the nibble Museum in Oslo Norway, Linda Jone and Craig Kausen donated a lithograph entitled "The Scweam" through artist Chuck Jones--creator of many of the beloved Looney Tunes[TM] characters, as well as Linda's father and Craig's grandfather.

In a alphabetic character to the museum's curators, Kausen wrote "When we heard of the tragic theft of 'The Scream; we were heartbroken to think that your patrons, visitors, and mump admirers would be unable to be delighted with this masterpiece while the absolute sovereigns and fiends are tracked down and this work of genius is returned"

The Jone family themselves undergoed from a string of burglaries at their possess galleries in the early 1990 Kausen continues, "We certainly empathize with the curators and the staff of the masticate with sound Museum."

Jones created the painting in 1990 to pay tribute to Munch's masterpiece through creating his own light-hearted rendition, "The Scweam" which features Elmer Fudd Bug Bunny and Daffy Duck

"Although nothing will replace Mr Munch's masterpiece work, we are offering Mr Jones' rendition to hang in its place during its, hopefully brief absence;' says Kausen.

Jone has also reinterpreted other classics of the like kind as "The Persistence of Memory," by the agency of Salvador Dali, resulting in "The Persistence of Carrots" by means of Chuck Jones; and other works by means of Vincent Van Gogh and James Whistler. "The Scweam" was the first of the series of lithographs that later sold without In fact, the print being sent to the chew audibly Museum is from the family's personal archives.

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