• J. Scott Campbell, cover artist for IDW’s Presidential Material comics, talks about his approach to drawing the candidates. What’s the deal with John McCain’s toothy grin and Barack Obama’s closed mouth? “It’s funny, because people have tried to read into that. I’ve had some say that McCain, because he has teeth, that makes him look sinister. That’s not it all. It just happened that when I collected photos of them online, from that angle almost all of (McCain) had him smiling, and Obama most often was not.” [The Orange County Register]
• David Barnett wonders whether the timing of Presidential Material is IDW’s effort to get out the vote. [Guardian Books Blog]
• Okay, just one more politics link: Using Kill Bill as a guide, Antony Altbeker asserts that Sarah Palin is Clark Kent to John McCain’s Superman. [The Times of South Africa]
• Rapper and graphic-novel writer Percy Carey interviews comics and TV writer Dwayne McDuffie. [Complex Blog]
• Heeb magazine has named Dan Nadel one of its “Heeb 100″ — its annual list of “young, smart and innovative” Jewish Americans. [Heeb Magazine]
• Art Spiegelman talks about Breakdowns, Meta Maus and … Tina Fey. [Vulture]
• If you have an extra $3.7 million burning a hole in your pocket, Joss Whedon’s Brentwood home is for sale. [The Los Angeles Times]
• The student magazine at Cal State Long Beach profiles alumnus Chris Bachalo. [Dig Magazine]
