Noblemania

This blog has run an eclectic range of interviews; the subjects relate to film, TV, music, literature, animation, and other aspects of pop...

Legendary Batman (and the Outsiders) writer/Bill Finger advocate Mike W. Barr wrote in with an interesting observation: At least the clim...

In 9/14, Rolling Stone counted down the best singles of 1984 . Number 49 is "If This Is It" by Huey Lewis and the News.  And...

In 2008, both in Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman and here , I addressed the recurring claim that Hitler or his Minister of Propagan...

Teachers tend to love when authors who visit their schools excite students about research. It’s one thing to say research is adventure and ...

To paraphrase the back cover of the 2014 self-published book Holding Kryptonite by Lauren Agostino and A.L. Newberg: “In 1997, a young law ...

You haven’t noticed (because why would you) that I rarely post about sports. ( Tangential exception. ) However, to my surprise, sports post...

If you grew up in the 1970s, you remember this magazine. I remember ordering an issue with Superman on the cover through the Scholastic Book...

“…I have come to realise over time that I call them just that. Picture books. Not children’s books…I don’t believe they are just for childre...

Not to be confused with my first-ever book store signing … The first time I signed books in public was on 11/9/96 at the Rizzoli Book Fair ...

In 1975, Ally Sheedy’s first novel came out. She was 13 years old. The name on the cover is “Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy”…but yes, it’...

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...