Noblemania

The day before Independence Day, I got up early to speak to 300-500 students between the ages of 14-18. The talk started at 7:30 am...for m...

I teach creative writing camps (virtual only this year, of course).  One of my challenges for every group every year: write as irresistib...

Batman is in the Justice League. Meanwhile, Bill Finger is in Little League…or rather would have been, if not for the pandemic. This year...

An artist named Luke Walsh (whom I don’t know) tweeted a humbling, charming two-panel comic strip about my Bill Finger work.  Fact-c...

Eduardo Pereira, the director of a public library of comics in Brazil who is working on a book about Bill Finger, kindly called to my atten...

No one in this blog post is as s/he seems… Prologue: The book Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman came out in 2012. D...

This week, I learned that Emily Manasch, Bill Finger’s younger sister , died on 9/27/18, a week shy of her 100th birthday. (Biologically, s...

In Footloose  (1984), Arthur Rosenberg played Wes Warnicker, uncle to Kevin Bacon’s character Ren McCormack. Arthur’s behind-the-...

For the past 20 years, I have had the great privilege of speaking in hundreds of elementary, middle, and high schools worldwide.  At the ...

In 1968, a gifted and beloved session musician named Henry Grimes—who’d played with Thelonious Monk and Benny Goodman, who helped pioneer f...

In February, the versatile, prolific Vanity Fair writer David Kamp  reached out to introduce himself, which delighted me not only because I...

Due to social distancing to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), so much of the world is simultaneously experiencing something many...