Barack Obama looks like the English teacher in high school that everybody thought was "cool" but who I never had because I never even got close to those college-prep courses.

Sarah Palin looks like the person that moves into a cool, old Craftsman fixer-upper in a lower-class ethnic neighborhood and starts a neighborhood association and pressures the people who have lived there for years to put the correct windows on their homes.

Joe Biden looks like the actor who plays a politician in a movie.

John McCain looks like the old guy in a '50s science-fiction B-movie who gets strangled by the alien monster.

Jaime Hernandez's new graphic novel is The Education of Hopey Glass.

More artists, writers, and performers on next week's presidential election here..