Noblemania

I rarely do podcast interviews these days but couldn’t resist accepting the kind invitation of Lou Diamond to talk with him on Thrive LOUD...

On 9/17/19, I had the privilege of speaking to young people at the Montessori School of San Antonio. They further honored me by sending a s...

Thank you to MAME, especially Cat Kerns and Klaudia Janek, for your efforts to bring me to Michigan to open your lovely conference! It was ...

How humbling : I hope I get to read this professor's dissertation!

The Joker is not the first Batman antagonist to headline a standalone live-action movie. (Catwoman beat him by 15 years.) Yet Joker , whi...

I believe I began talking about Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman at schools even before the book came out in 2008. My presentation ...

In 1997, I saw this obituary in the New York Times : In 2007, I began to write a picture book on Nobuo Fujita. In 2014, after aroun...

Kathleen McBroom kindly interviewed me for the 9/19 issue of Booklist . Most of her   questions are ones I haven’t gotten before (whi...

The week of September 16, I spoke at schools and a conference in San Antonio.  In my school presentation, I typically show a Super Friend...

Missed one! After airing on Australian TV (November 2018) but before premiering on Delta Air Lines or Spanish TV (September 2019), Batma...

On a flight, a 4th grader sitting near me and looking at a seatback screen said “This guy looks like you.”  No, it wasn’t Ed Sheeran or S...

In honor of Batman’s 80th anniversary, Batman & Bill is debuting in Spain on the Spanish channel TCM España (TCM Spain) on Batman Day,...

In November 2018, Batman & Bill aired on SBS, an Australian TV channel. To my knowledge, it’s the first international showing (and the...

Four years ago today, three words corrected a 76-year-long injustice when DC Comics added them to the Batman credit line: "with Bill F...

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...