The Year of Superman

2008 will mark seventy (70) years since Superman first appeared in Action Comics. Michael Sangiacomo, who writes for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, is challenging locals to do something about it. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who created one of the great figures in American popular fiction, hailed from Cleveland…and yet the city has no official recognition of this. No Siegel and Shuster Street, no statues, no plaques, nothing. Thanks to Jef Peckham for the link…and thanks to Mike Sangiacomo who at the Mid-Ohio Con last month, gave me copies of his fine graphic novel, Tales of the Starlight Drive-In.