As Thomas Pynchon fans count the days until the August 4th release of "Inherent Vice," Entertainment Weekly dusted off an artist's time-aged drawing of the reclusive and practically un-photographed novelist.

Click here to see the drawing by Stephen Mancusi--a sketch artist who has completed image modification illustrations of many celebrities, including Michael Jackson to David Letterman. In addition, the magazine's critic gave the private detective novel high marks.

Here's more from the article: "His drawing was based on Pynchon's 1955 high school yearbook photo, one of the last known snapshots of the Gravity's Rainbow scribe ... Yes, the artist's Pynchon looks a little like John Ratzenberger from Cheers."