Heartbreak at 72 dpi

I think this might be the most depressing portrait ever taken. Do you know who the boy in the portrait is?

Why, it's Peanuts creator Charles Sculz of course!

I'm tempted to pick up the new biography of Schulz that has elicited praise from Calvin creator Bill Watterson and Rabbit writer John Updike, while simulatenously eliciting condemnation from Schulz's family. I was never a huge fan of the Peanuts strip, but the suggestion that Lucy annoying Schroeder at his piano was inspired by Schulz's wife annoying him at the drawing table is too rich to ignore. It is a little dark, though. And that childhood portrait is ... gah! The kid's practically on the verge of tears.

Hope your day is going well! If it isn't, just gaze into that picture for a few minutes and be glad you're not that kid.