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Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman came out in 2008. The year before, I had made my first trip to Cleveland (where Superman was born...

The children of the girls whose story I tell in Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real kindly posed with the...

This blog launched on  2/19/08 . Every February 19, I share the posts of the previous 12 months that I feel have the widest appeal. This ...

Joaquin Phoenix just won an Academy Award for Actor in a Leading Role for playing the Joker in Joker , as Heath Ledger posthumously did (Ac...

On  2/8/20,  which  would have been Bill Finger's 106th birthday, a tweeter named Aaron shared his pick for who should play me (yes, m...

I’ve been on a good streak.  It’s been many months since a school administrator has come up to me after my presentation for grades 3-5 to...

Though he'll never win the Super Bowl, an Oscar, or the Democratic nomination, Batman co-creator Bill Finger is nonetheless catching up...

From January 21-24, 2020, I spoke at five schools in California, two in Los Angeles and three in Bakersfield (my first time). The school...

From mid-1997 to late-1999, I lived in Los Angeles, but did not visit (or even think to visit) any of the sites that appear in my favorite ...

The two positives of a mechanical issue that forced my Ohio connecting flight to deplane: 1) lives possibly saved 2) finally getting to ...

In 2018, two nonfiction picture books I wrote were published, Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real  and Thi...

On 12/26/19, a 30-year-old Hungarian sent me a heartfelt message about my Bill Finger efforts. He said English is not his mother tongue and...

Granted, not Time or Rolling Stone , but I'm grateful to anyone who includes the documentary on a list of the 20 best films of the past...

Though the panel (on empathy) I pitched for the 2019 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention was not accepted, I got to g...

Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond is a beautiful beast of a book written by Andrew Farago and ...