* Spend some time with Sparky: CBS News re-presents a 1999 60 Minutes interview with Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. When asked if he is a writer, artist, or philosopher, you have to love his answer: “I am a cartoonist.”
* Roger Ebert reviews the movie adaptation of Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s Red: [It] plays like a movie made for my Aunt Mary, who was always complaining, ‘Honey, I don’t like the pictures anymore because I don’t know who any of the actors are.’ If the name Ernest Borgnine sounds familiar, here’s the movie for you.”
* At Robot 6, Jaunty Sean T. explains why he eschewed the New York Comic Con this year. I just like saying “eschewed.”
* New at the Pekar Project: The Garbage Dispute by Harvey Pekar and Rick Parker.
* Uncomics: Delving into the Biblical story of Onan, Roger Green considers the politics of masturbation: “There’s no proof that it will make one go insane or grow hair on one’s palms.”
— Alan David Doane
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