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God, we wish we could draw.

If we could, we might make great illustrations like this amazing Jonathan Franzen-as-Charlie Brown book cover by Patricia Storms, illustrator and keeper of the blog Book Lust.

No clever comments, frankly: just respect.

Why Is Everbody Always Picking On Me? [Book Lust, via Maud Newton]
The Comfort Zone [Franzen on Peanuts, The New Yorker]
The Complete Peanuts [Fantagraphics]