Boing Boing has news of interest to any fans of independent comics and graphic novels.  Marvel Comics and DC comics have jointly filed a trademark for the term “super-hero.”  That way they can go after independent comic creators and publishers simply for using the term.  Sigh.  This is the sort of thing we will see more and more of now that public domain terms are available for trademark.  Very sad.

John R. Gardiner, author of Stone Fox has died at age 61 from pancreatitis. 

I enjoyed this paragraph of the article:

“Few would have predicted Gardiner’s literary success. He didn’t enjoy
books when he was young he never read an entire novel until he was 19
and he ended up in what he called “dumbbell English” at the University
of California, Los Angeles.”