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Thanks to their new movie, the Muppets are back at the forefront of pop culture, but I remain a bigger fan of Sesame Street …even more so on...

… Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman . Twitter-unfriendly, but still on schedule for a 7/1/12 release. On 11/22/11, I w...

I was thrilled to stumble across a trailer for a (nonexistent) movie based on my nonfiction compilation book Vanished: True Stories of the M...

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Before Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman , few of the books I’d written involved original research. And while I was writing Boys of S...

A lovely time of year to visit the Lowcountry. On 11/17/11 and 11/18/11, I spoke seven times at four Charleston area schools. It was so tigh...

This was one highlight of many on my recent two-week author trip to Guam . I talked extra slowly because they told me to. I didn't smile...

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On 9/22/11, I kicked off the 2011-12 year of author visits at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, MD. The students in attendanc...

On 11/9/11, I took part in my third Community Night event for the Washington D.C. organization Turning the Page . The format is this: I sh...

Fourteen of my cartoons appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Food and Love . Here are four of my favorites:

In late September 2011, I posted a pitch for a nonfiction picture book I've written that has generated humbling praise from editors but...

Pre-blog school visit photo: New Haven (CT) Register

If you’re a heterosexual male who (when young and single) thought finding a young female was hard, it’s nothing compared to finding an old f...

In which I got to talk about my "Super '70s and '80s" blog series ( 100 interviews with "lost" stars of superher...

In 1995, I was working my first job after college—a marketing assistant at Abbeville Press in New York. The company was known for its coffe...

The first annual Picture Book Month is in progress, and I'm honored to be one of 30 authors and author-illustrators who are a part of i...

On Guam , I learned of a program that ran for several years. I don't know what they called it, but I'd call it Book Club Plus. The i...

1. Surely the Health Commission doesn't want to be bothered about one little rat. 2. We can escort you to your car if you find another c...

Because it’s become so trendy to admit you’re a geek—and because you can now be a geek of things that were formally considered 100% cool (a ...

Part 3. Snorkeling with one of my kind hosts Vickie and (not pictured) her husband Richard: Walking out to the island: Once there, a paddleb...

The character I dressed up as the most for Halloween was Superman (three times) ; Robin comes in second, at two; I do have a third image of...

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Like many authors, my travel schedule is erratic. I can go weeks or sometimes a month or more without having to get on a plane or even a car...