Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Gil Roth talks to Phoebe Gloeckner.

* in his CBR column, Joseph Phillip Illidge writes about the DC Comics "Rebirth" initiative from a greatly different perspective than I've been offering, moving away from lack-of-execution arguments and citing a series of from the former DC universe in the form of various line-wide efforts from the last dozen or so years. His most interesting point to me is an argument that DC lacks hands-on female decision-makers of import and sway.

* not comics: Kirby imagery in The Parallax View.

* the writer Marguerite Abouet is up for a "strong voices in literature" award that focuses on Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Arab world. Looks like it will be announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

* Pete Redrup and gang on a variety of comics.

* finally, if you're perceiving time like I am these day, 2008 was five minutes ago. Here's the Secret Acres perspective on the year of Obama.
 
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