This year's Christmas card from me (Front cover and Page 3).

Created using the WYSIWYG design website Recite, and then I hacked off their watermarks with GIMP 2. Merry Christmas everybody.

"Today on this program you will hear gospel, and rhythm and blues, and jazz. All those are just labels. We know that music is music"

The thing about calling these things "the Best Of 2012" is they're really just "the Best Of 2012 that's available through Spotify right now". But sod it, it's a flavour of what I've liked this year. I've noticed this year has been a hip hop-light, garage rock and torch songs-heavy, kind-of-vintage.

Tim Doyle draws one mean MF (Massey Ferguson).

Eric Church means nothing to me, but hell, Tim Doyle can draw a helluva rusty old TED-20.

This year's Christmas card from PJ McQuade.

As is becoming usual with Patrick, I got an entire Jiffy bag full of Christmas cards from the guy. 

What an absolute sweetheart. Buy 'em (and all his others) over at his webstore.

This year's Christmas card from Alfie Gallagher.

Cheers, Alfie - it's on the mantelpiece right now!

This year's Christmas card from Brendan McCarthy.

"Hope you have a great holiday and a successful and healthy New Year.  

May your bells jingle and your angels sing. Yo Ho Ho, Brendan"

Phil Bond draws some actual Doctor Who comics.

Phillip Bond drawing Doctor Who comics. If there was ever something more definitively Bad Librarianship than that, I don't know what it was.

Also in news relevant to the obsessions of this blog: Hellboy In Hell #1 in shops tomorrow.