I found this when I was doing Reading Digest this week, and it is simply too cool not to have its own post.  I’ll let The Be Rad Blog explain:

I am big on a lot of geeky stuff and when I came across Sound Of Design’s Flickr profile I was in awe; it’s an eyegasmic gold mine. Ty Lettau has created hundreds of minimalistic portraits of characters from a plethora of cult classic geek universes. All are displayed in a minimalistic “Cartooned” fashion similar to the classic media in which some of the characters are taken.

The entire “Cartooned” section is amazing, but I wouldn’t be posting this if there weren’t a Simpsons set:

It’s both simple and detailed; the pearls, the hair, that eyes-up-optimism, it’s got everything.  Here’s my favorite:

That is fucking great.  Even smoothed out, wrinkles are wrinkles, and the generalized look of panic combined with the old man five o’clock shadow is dead on Grampa Simpson.  B-r-a-v-o, Sound of Design, eyegasmic indeed.  Check out the whole set.