Why do I call my blog Superman North is simple, I am a great fan of the the Superman universe. The other reason is that Superman was in part created by a Canadian Joe Shuster, which painfully some Americans will not admit to. I saw a a special documentary called Look, Up In The Sky which falsely stated that Superman was created by two American kids from Ohio. When I heard that I got angry at that major slap in the face to us Canadians. Granted Joe Shuster did live in America at the time should not take away from Joe's true Canadian background which the documentary failed to mention. The hardest part of the documentary was not even a sentence had any Canadian connection to Superman. The documentary also failed to mention that the origins of the Daily Planet was in fact The Daily Star which still stands today as The Toronto Star. The other thing was Toronto was the basis of the now famous Metropolis, which Joe Shuter stated in an interview before his death. I as a proud Canadian kid, now an adult loved the fact that Superman had Canadian roots and it inspired me that if Joe Shuster could make an icon I could to. My other love is the show Smallville which added the Kara/Supergirl character played by Laura Vandervoort who was born here in Toronto brings the world of Superman back home. Ironically Laura was born when Supergirl the motion picture premiered. The sad part is that our very own Canadian Walk of Fame in downtown Toronto does not even have a star for Joe Shuster who created the Superman icon.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Why Superman North
Why do I call my blog Superman North is simple, I am a great fan of the the Superman universe. The other reason is that Superman was in part created by a Canadian Joe Shuster, which painfully some Americans will not admit to. I saw a a special documentary called Look, Up In The Sky which falsely stated that Superman was created by two American kids from Ohio. When I heard that I got angry at that major slap in the face to us Canadians. Granted Joe Shuster did live in America at the time should not take away from Joe's true Canadian background which the documentary failed to mention. The hardest part of the documentary was not even a sentence had any Canadian connection to Superman. The documentary also failed to mention that the origins of the Daily Planet was in fact The Daily Star which still stands today as The Toronto Star. The other thing was Toronto was the basis of the now famous Metropolis, which Joe Shuter stated in an interview before his death. I as a proud Canadian kid, now an adult loved the fact that Superman had Canadian roots and it inspired me that if Joe Shuster could make an icon I could to. My other love is the show Smallville which added the Kara/Supergirl character played by Laura Vandervoort who was born here in Toronto brings the world of Superman back home. Ironically Laura was born when Supergirl the motion picture premiered. The sad part is that our very own Canadian Walk of Fame in downtown Toronto does not even have a star for Joe Shuster who created the Superman icon.
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