Every February 19, I share what I feel have been the best posts of the previous twelve months.
This year's medalists:
speaking
- at a school visit in Tanzania, what made an especially big impact—literally
- the aftermath of the Tanzania UFO
- delivering Chris Crutcher's keynote
- a Plum Creek Literacy Festival attendee's reaction to my presentation
- being welcomed by trumpets
- Bill Finger and I go to Texas
promotion
- 74 years after he co-created Batman in New York City, Bill Finger makes the New York Times
- Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman on NBC News/Today Show/MSN
- talking Bill Finger on Kevin Smith's Fat Man on Batman podcast
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar meets Batman
- Bill the Boy Wonder around the world
- one way to get people talking about the subject of your book
research
- Facebook is also Findbook
- secrets hidden in Bill the Boy Wonder
- trying to reach Jerry Siegel in 1994
- original (and in some cases final) interviews with eight writers/artists of the Golden/Silver Age of Comics
- Bill Finger and gay culture
- the sole Bill Finger screen credit...for Superman
publishing
- kidlit authors read aloud a bad review of their own books
- is Bill the Boy Wonder a children's book?
- rules I broke in Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
- guess the picture book
- unused covers for Bill the Boy Wonder
- nonfiction invasion at International Reading Association Convention 2013
miscellaneous
- why Bill the Boy Wonder should have received an Eisner nomination
- despite significant support from both the public and the press, Google did not give Bill Finger a doodle on his 100th birthday
- original interviews with ingenues of iconic 1980s music videos
- comic book scripts I wrote for Batman: The Brave and the Bold
- ghost hunting authors
- proposing a Bill Finger memorial in New York City
- Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster are not heroes
- Bill Finger's sole granddaughter and great-grandson meet their public
- kids write letters to Bob Kane as Bill Finger's son (warning: profound thoughts)
- solving the mystery of the Wonder Twins movie poster
- Superman turns 75
- funny signs from my travels
- where art tells the story in Bill the Boy Wonder
- Boys of Steel with Boys of Steel
- "The Bloodhound Gang" - where are they now?
- my earliest published work
- the first actor to play Bill Finger
- three junctures at which Bob Kane could have acted nobly
- the eeriness of a music video produced four days before 9/11
- the shape of the border of Bill Finger's yearbook portrait
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