Nickname: Fat Charlie. Didn't see his father for years ... He thinks he shares a lot in common with our Anansi Boy hero Charlie as you can hear in this clip. Spider is a dude.

In Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys - an epic tale about gods, fathers and sons - Anansi regularly embarrasses his son Fat Charlie. Here some of the cast share their own stories about embarrassing ...

There was also a chance to bring about change creatively within the narrative itself. In Anansi Boys, Charlie discovers he is the son of the West African spider god, the trickster Anansi.

Dark Horse Comics has officially cancelled Anansi Boys, their comic based on the Neil Gaiman book of the same title, following a bombshell report about allegations of sexual abuse and harassment ...