The holiday weekend has resulted in some super slim pickings for links. Here are the few I found…

“Each of the 50 stars on the costume of this freedom-loving champion represents a different state—and a different superpower related to that state!”: Captain America could have stayed dead indefinitely, and America would have been well covered in the patriotic superhero department, thanks to the Chris Duffy’s The July Fourth Project. It’s a collection of  YOUR democracy-loving, 5th column bashing champions of justice. created and submitted by cartoonists of all (stars and) stripes. You owe it to yourself—and your country!—to check out the results.

“Serena Williams Wants to Play Movie Superhero”: Provided she’s not talking a brand-new film superhero, but would be looking for a readymade, who have we got for her? Misty Knight in a Heroes For Hire movie maybe? Monica Rambeau in a Next Wave: Agents of H.A.T.E. movie? (Like there would ever actually be one of those).

Here’s one more thing I wish they had when I was a kid: Washington paper The Bellingham Herald has a little feature story on a local YMCA’s “Superhero Training” summer camp for kids. Children between the ages of three and six picked out a superhero identity like misspelled  Spiderman or Mopsy The Supercat and then learned wall-climbing, tumbling, swimming and suchlike.

“Carol Tyler is one of the best cartoonists currently working. She has been for years”: Tom Spurgeon’s Sunday interview is with C. Tyler, the creator behind the excellent You’ll Never Know Book One: A Good and Decent Man.

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