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Thank you, Comic Book Resources, for including "Bill Finger and the Secret Origin of Batman" on your list of must-see comic book ...

In 1994 in Boston, while I was in college, I attended an open casting call (see photo below) for Robin for the movie Batman Forever .  My...

Yippee-ki-yay, moviegoer.  You know the line I’m bastardizing. You know the 1988 film it’s from. You know the new kind of rush audiences ...

In some schools, elementary ends with 5th grade; in others, 6th.  In either case, it often also ends with a slideshow video in honor of g...

The city of Bridgeport, CT runs an annual program called Read Aloud Day; a committee chooses a different book for every elementary grade le...

During the summer, I teach a creative writing camp. During the camp, I introduce kids to a book from early in my authorial career, 5-Minute...

When filming Batman & Bill , co-director Don Argott asked me to show a few books I’d written. When I pulled out my first, I simply intr...

Some magazines round up what they consider the best quotations of the previous week and display them within word bubbles; exhibit 1: Entert...

On 5/20/19, I did author visits at two Maryland schools connected to the military: Pershing Hill Elementary on Fort George G. Meade (though...

The embargo has lifted!  In March, I learned that Thirty Minutes Over Oregon has been selected for the International Literacy Associatio...

I don’t work at the State Department in Washington DC, but I took one of my kids—and my wife—there on Take Your Child to Work Day 2019. Tec...

Strange how often he is not  in the lead when shown running with a group.  Flash Fact: the alleged Fastest Ma...

Several months ago, my longtime author friend Bill Doyle told me that Scholastic had redone their lobby. It’s been almost twenty years sinc...