Happy New Year! Unfortunately, since it’s been a holiday week and today is technically a holiday, there aren’t too many links to get us started in 2012. However, these are some pretty darn good ones:

1. Cinemad has been busy with a couple new podcasts. The newest one is an interview with the Zellner Brothers. Previous to that, they interviewed underground film legend Ken Jacobs.
2. Donna k. says she’s going to right a terrible wrong and start interviewing female artists, which sounds like a fabulous idea. The next two links should offer some inspiration:
3. Making Light of It scans in a conversation between Shirley Clarke and Storm de Hirsch from Film Culture.
4. Not really underground film: Potzrebie has an excerpt from a ’50s documentary about black artists. The excerpt is all about Jackie Ormes, a pioneering African-American female comic strip artist.
5. Filmmaker Waylon Bacon says he’s getting back into blogging, which I’m personally happy about because I’ve missed his writing.