Artist friends! i just had a fun idea! I’m gonna start posting “cover” versions of the illustrations from Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster here on the blog. Send yours to yoecomix(at)hotmail(dot)com with a url you’d like me to plug (the blog is getting thousands of hits daily).

Greg Gutfeld, the host of Fox News Red Eye, is a very funny guy and has a hilarious wacky crew with non-stop rapid-fire laffs. It’s the best show on TV. And don’t let the Fox News part scare you. Gutfeld isn’t a liberal, but he sure isn’t a conservative, either. He calls himself a libertarian-he’s exactly like me, but different! Mainly, Gutfeld’s a no-bullshit dude who really cracks me up-can’t wait to be on his show (again, was on a few months back for my book The Best of Sexology).

— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)

I’ll be discussing and signing “Secret Identity, The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster” at the appropriately named Happy Ending Lounge, hope you’ll, uh…come!

— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)

Watch this space! Sometime in the coming days or even mere hours we will be making a big announcement about the much demanded Secret Identity Limited Edition. This will be a VERY, VERY small numbered edition for hardcore collectors only. Details are being pinned down, but the Secret Identity Limited Edition will likely have:

* A special bookplate signed by Stan Lee and Craig Yoe with art by Joe Shuster, not in the book.
*A facsimile of a detailed fascinating letter from Joe Shuster’s sister, Jean, about her thoughts about the art and Joe’s state of mind and situation when he did this work.
*A 16 page portfolio of Joe’s erotica not printed in Secret Identity, a number of which were thought to be too strong for the regular edition going to bookstores.
*And finally… a finely crafted wooden paddle the cover of the book emblazoned in color on the front and a special Joe Shuster illustration featuring a sound paddling on the back (NOTE WELL: because they are drawn by Joe Shuster the characters in that scene look strikingly similar to Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen BUT ARE, IN FACT, NOT THOSE CHARACTERS).

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By popular demand here’s the audio link from when Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air radiio show interviewed me. And NPR’s got Stan Lee’s intro to Secret Identity on their site, too! Click here my friend:

NPR’s Fresh Air.

Gonna be at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival this weekend! They SAY I’m an “honored guest”. The SAY I’m gonna be “spotlighted 3:30pm-4:30pm in the TCAF Gallery on Saturday.” I just hope this isn’t a ruse to get me up there and hang me in a TCAF Gallows as Toronoto is Joe Shuster’s home town and the program says “Secret Identity” has “ignited a storm of controversy and interest and features truly shocking drawings by Joe Shuster ” .On the other hand they say that the drawings are “undeniably important” and that “Yoe will be interviewed by Douglas Wolk, noted critic and author of Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean.” Wolk doesn’t seem like he’s the kind of guy that would be part of a lynching, but, *GULP*, this could go either way!