I tried to be a good Google citizen and update my blog to use the new features integrated with Google+. It's not working out. I a...

I wasn't watching much TV when Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman debuted.  I was a freshman at UT and the only TV I real...

In 1948 Columbia rolled out a weekly Superman serial.  10 years after the Man of Steel had first appeared on a comic book cover, America kne...

I didn't post last night, so I feel obligated to check in. I've been down in San Marcos, south of Austin by about 30 minutes, fo...

Well. This week was about how making comics is a collaborative process, and that mainstream comics, especially superhero comics, are rarel...

On Monday, I watched the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines on the PBS series Independent Lens . If yo...

So. I don't really have time for this. Jamie went out of town this weekend, and I was supposed to be working on The Fortress of Nerd...

On Wednesday night I watched some of the Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons from 1941 and 1942. Title Release date Note Superman  (a.k....

This evening Jamie and I drove up to the Alamo LakeCreek to catch the second installment in your favorite franchise and mine, Birdemic II: T...

Today is, reportedly, the 75th anniversary of the debut of Action Comics #1 .   75 years ago, Superman appeared on the cover of a comic book...