yeah
anyway, I’ve been sitting on this for awhile, mostly to let the ink dry but also because, yeah, you know. Anyway, lots of people keep writing me for information, or for the movie, so easier to just say it here: a Last Son DVD is NOT for sale, nor will it be for awhile. There are some other reasons for this, but one is that I’m writing a book (see below). You can still see the movie at film festivals so check the site or write me, should be more in 2010. I hope it goes without saying THANKS to everyone who has supported me in the film and on this site and all your help — could not have done it alone. To repay you, o awesome Superman fans, you are going to get the most complete account of the story ever written.
Trust me.
from SFScope:
Bradley J. Ricca sells biography of Superman’s creators to St. Martin’s
By Ian Randal Strock
Publishers Lunch is reporting that Bradley J. Ricca sold Super Boys: Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Creation of Superman to Michael Homler at St. Martin’s via agent Scott Mendel of Mendel Media Group. The author is a comic book scholar at Case Western Reserve University.
PL reports that the book is to be “the first-ever biography of the creators of Superman, detailing the complex lifelong collaboration and occasional betrayals, private dramas and public struggles, that accompanied their creation of perhaps the most iconic fictional figure of the 20th century.” That “first-ever” part was the cause of some surprise here, but further research seems to show it might indeed be the first, at least for adults. Author Marc Tyler Nobleman and illustrator Ross MacDonald’s Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman was a 40-page hardcover published for children by Knopf in July 2008. We fully admit that we don’t know everything. Do you, the readers, know of any other biographies of Siegel and Shuster? And if there aren’t, can anyone think why it took so long to get these first two?
Edited: When asked, Ricca tells us more about himself: “I teach a comics course at Case with Mike San Giacomo (a reporter who also wrote the award-winning Tales of the Starlight Drive-In graphic novel). He also adds to the question of “first”, by reminding us of Gerard Jones’ Men of Tomorrow.