Noblemania

My editor is semi-retired and does not work on Mondays (or Wednesdays or Fridays) — rather she does not go to the office. First thing this m...

Numerous other blogs are binging on bytes in their coverage of the seismic Superman ruling of earlier this week. For a more naïve and way...

This week, the family of Jerry Siegel got some good news . It's probably too late to note this victory in my book.

Last month, I learned that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is hosting "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" from May 7 to...

In the next day or five, I will begin a series revealing how I tracked down various people who knew Bill Finger, uncredited co-creator and o...

This is not one of my overall favorites, but it is one of my Superman-related favorites.

Part 1. I am not showing the homes of Bill Finger (chorus: uncredited co-creator of Batman) chronologically because I want to save my fav...

Even though Boys of Steel will not be out till August, I began mentioning it at my school visits in January. I introduce it about halfway t...

I watch four TV shows regularly. Based on what I've blogged about so far, two of those shows are easy to guess — Smallville and Heroes ...

The Junior Library Guild may sound like a team of young, scholarly superheroes. It's not, of course, though it does do a great good. Eac...

The logos of most companies, including book publishers, remain the same no matter where they appear. However, one imprint that does allow mo...

In this series of undetermined length, I will post photos I took of buildings in which Bill Finger, uncredited co-creator and original write...

Bill Finger was not, as is sometimes stated, born in New York City but rather in Denver, unlikely as it sounds. In his childhood, his family...

Let's take a side trip from Cleveland to the Bronx, from Metropolis to Gotham. Even before I sold Boys of Steel , I knew what I wanted...

If you could fly, you'd probably spend most of your airborne time in the summer. Superman sure seems to. He debuted in Action Comics #1...

In January, my editor told me that they'd sent galleys (i.e. the finished book, except not bound) of Boys of Steel to a couple of peopl...

One curious piece of Superman lore exists not among the panels but in real life. Numerous books and essays written about Superman perpetuat...

I wrote the first draft of Boys of Steel the picture book on May 3, 2004, but that wasn't the first format I envisioned for it. Ten ye...

What inspired me to write Boys of Steel as a picture book as opposed to another format was a single image from the summer of 1934: 19-year-...

Superman was the first comic book superhero. Boys of Steel is the first picture book biography of his creators, Jerry Siegel (the...