This charming Charlie

This charming Charlie

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The idea is incredibly simple, but it’s so brilliant, it makes you wonder why nobody ever thought of it before.

Lauren LoPrete, a Bay Area graphic designer, music fan, and indie-label entrepreneur (she runs Loglady with her boyfriend), describes it thusly:

“All images adapted from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic series. All words adapted from Smiths lyrics written by Morrissey.”

I for one am hooked. And now I can’t stop thinking about what other strips could be paired with the utterances of which musicians. The mind reels.

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