Noblemania

Betsy Bird writing for School Library Journal  asked me and fellow authors including Candace Fleming, Chris Barton, Deborah Heiligman, and C...

On 3/7/07, I got good news about a bad situation. Bonnie Burrell, ex-wife of Bill Finger’s son Fred Finger, told me what really  happened to...

On 2/4/22—rescheduled from spring 2020—I finally spoke at Robious Elementary in Midlothian, VA. My visit was the kickoff for a student proje...

Bill Finger co-created Batman (and lived most of his life) in New York. But Bill was created in Denver...at this address.  (That house, at 1...

In 2005, the first of my two books called Vocabulary Cartoon of the Day  came out, featuring 180 single panel cartoons for grades 4-6. To ge...

Recently a fellow writer asked me about Bob Kane’s assertion that his idea for Batman ’s bat-like wings/cape  was in part inspired by Leonar...

No one in this blog post is as s/he seems… Prologue: The book Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman came out in 2012. D...

This week, I learned that Emily Manasch, Bill Finger’s younger sister , died on 9/27/18, a week shy of her 100th birthday. (Biologically, s...

On 4/23/19, sandwiched between school visits, I had half a day to tool around New York City. My primary destinations were Bill Finger-relat...