Noblemania

As has happened multiple times before , I spent the second two weeks of October speaking in schools far from home. This time, in the unspoil...

Chance brought me to the almost inevitable place to celebrate when my book The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra comes out (hopefully in 2016)....

On 10/19/14, Robert Porfirio passed away. I never met Bob and know little about him. What I do know is that he was wonderfully kind...and o...

Like many authors of books for young people, I’ve long admired Jon Scieszka for his humor, his generosity, and his grooming. Once I had the ...

Thank you again to Dean Phillips, owner of the spacious and special comic book shop Krypton Comics in Omaha, for inviting me to do a signing...

Felix Explores Our World (1999) sequelizes (and incorporates) The Felix Activity Book (1996).   Vocabulary Cartoon of the Day Gr...

Thank you to Spiritual Pop Culture for calling my pop culture interviews “addictive.” It is greatly appreciated.  

Mark Waid wrote the biographies of the men who wrote and drew the stories featured in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (1988). H...

Upon seeing my kidlit mashups , Chris Duffy, my friend and a former editor of Nickelodeon Magazine, recalled a similar piece that ran in Ni...

This omission is, I believe, a first in the history of (official) Batman narrative: As pressure to credit Bill mounts , I wonder if lea...

I have written two books called Vocabulary Cartoon of the Day , both for Scholastic; one for grades 2-3, the other for grades 4-6, the latte...

I was born in the early 1970s, which means I grew up as a member of the last pre-Internet generation. The entertainment of my formative year...

On 7/30/14, which happened to be the 100th birthday of Superman co-creator/original artist Joe Shuster, someone alerted me to a short (Spani...