Best of the blog 2013

This blog launched on 2/19/08.

Every February 19, I share what I feel have been the best posts of the previous twelve months.

This year's medalists:

speaking
at a school visit in Tanzania, what made an especially big impact—literallythe aftermath of the Tanzania UFOdelivering Chris Crutcher's keynotea Plum Creek Literacy Festival attendee's reaction to my presentationbeing welcomed by trumpetsBill Finger and I go to Texas
promotion
74 years after he co-created Batman in New York City, Bill Finger makes the New York TimesBill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman on NBC News/Today Show/MSNtalking Bill Finger on Kevin Smith's Fat Man on Batman podcastThe Very Hungry Caterpillar meets BatmanBill the Boy Wonder around the worldone way to get people talking about the subject of your book
research
Facebook is also Findbooksecrets hidden in Bill the Boy Wondertrying to reach Jerry Siegel in 1994original (and in some cases final) interviews with eight writers/artists of the Golden/Silver Age of ComicsBill Finger and gay culturethe sole Bill Finger screen credit...for Superman
publishing
kidlit authors read aloud a bad review of their own booksis Bill the Boy Wonder a children's book?rules I broke in Boys of Steel: The Creators of Supermanguess the picture bookunused covers for Bill the Boy Wondernonfiction invasion at International Reading Association Convention 2013
miscellaneous
why Bill the Boy Wonder should have received an Eisner nominationdespite significant support from both the public and the press, Google did not give Bill Finger a doodle on his 100th birthdayoriginal interviews with ingenues of iconic 1980s music videoscomic book scripts I wrote for Batman: The Brave and the Boldghost hunting authorsproposing a Bill Finger memorial in New York CityJerry Siegel and Joe Shuster are not heroesBill Finger's sole granddaughter and great-grandson meet their publickids write letters to Bob Kane as Bill Finger's son (warning: profound thoughts)solving the mystery of the Wonder Twins movie posterSuperman turns 75funny signs from my travelswhere art tells the story in Bill the Boy WonderBoys of Steel with Boys of Steel"The Bloodhound Gang" - where are they now?my earliest published workthe first actor to play Bill Fingerthree junctures at which Bob Kane could have acted noblythe eeriness of a music video produced four days before 9/11the shape of the border of Bill Finger's yearbook portrait
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