“Many jokes were made,” he says. “I got laughed at about the Lichtensteins because they looked like cartoons.” Anyone with a lick of art history knows that Weisman, a close friend of Andy Warhol, left, got the last laugh, as well as a book deal for “Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection,” which he is signing at a Consortium for the Advancement of the Arts event Saturday (Feb. 8) at Chasen Galleries in Carytown from 2-5 p.m. On display that afternoon will be original Warhols of Muhammad Ali from Weisman’s collection. — wayne