For over 70 years Tony the Tiger has been a pop culture icon, but there’s so much you don’t know about him. There have been a lot of cereal mascots over the years — those cartoon characters telling us why their breakfast is better than the next guy’s — but none have stood the test […]
When you really fall in love with a TV show, it’s more common than you’d think to want to connect to it on as many levels as you can. Maybe you want to read some fiction that branches the adventure off in a different way or (never admit that you) play with action figures based […]
The idea of being on the receiving end of questions is a fairly new experience for me as an entertainment journalist, but not an unenjoyable one as I’ve discovered while promoting my upcoming oral history of Superman book, Voices from Krypton. Over the past few weeks I’ve been on a number of podcasts where I’ve […]
A few years ago there was an announcement that Tom Hanks would be producing a film based on the old Major Matt Mason toy line from the 1960s — which immediately brought me back to my childhood and the realization that during my formative geek years, my obsessions were pulling me in different directions. In […]