Each year we gather the various “Best Of” lists focused on comic books and graphic novels. We’ll have ours on January 1, so as to give everything released in 2012 a chance to make our list.

Here’s this year’s edition:

• A Comic Book Blog
• Amazon
• Barnes & Nobles
• Bleeding Cool – Irish Comics
• Bleeding Cool (Rich Johnston)
• Bloody Disgusting
• Booklist Online – graphic novels
• Booklist Online – graphic novels (youth)
• Brain Pickings
• Broken Frontier – UK Small Press
• CBR -When Worlds Collide –  #20 to 11, #10 to 1
• CBR – Top 100 – #100 to 75, #74 to 50, #49 to 25, #24 to 11, #10 to 1
• CBR – CSBG – Top 10 Comics
• CBR – Robot 6
• Ciudadano Pop 20-11, 10-1
• ComicBook – 10 New Comics
• ComicBook – 10 Ongoing Comics
• ComicBookThinkTank
• ComicGate
• Comicosity
• ComicsAlliance – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• ComicsAlliance – Master List
• The Comics Reporter
• Comiks Debris
• Complex
• Complex – worst of list
• Costa Book Awards
• DC Women Kicking Ass
• Diana Tamblyn’s Comics and Illustrations
• Drawn
• Earth’s Mightiest Blog
• Fantagraphics
• Fast Company
• First Order Historians
• Forbidden Planet  (Andrew Tunney)
• Forbidden Planet (Brendan McCarthy)
• Forbidden Planet (Chris Ryall)
• Forbidden Planet (Tony Bennett)
• Four Colours & the Truth
• FPI Blog
• The Globe and Mail
• GoodReads
• Graphic Content
• Graphic Novel Reporter
• Graphic Novel Resources
• The Guardian
• Heat Vision
• iFanboy
• IGN
• Images and Nerds
• The Independent – one graphic novel included in their books list.
• io9
• Kirkus
• Kirkus
• Largehearted Boy
• Library Journal
• Look at OKC
• Madinkbeard
• Maybe Blogging Will Help
• MTV Geek – comics
• MTV Geek – graphic novels
• MTV Geek – manga
• Nerdage
• Nerdy Book Club
• The New York Times
• News OK
• Newsarama
• NPR
• The Onion
• The Onion
• Par La Bande
• Paste Magazine
• Politics and Prose
• Publishers Weekly
• Rob Kirby Comics
• Salon
• School Library Journal
• School Library Journal
• Slate
• StarTribune
• Talking Comics
• Talking Comics (Stephanie Cooke)
• Talking Comics (Mara Whiteside)
• Talking Comics (Steve Seigh)
• Three Imaginary Girls
• USA Today
• YALSA
• The Village Voice
• The Washington Post
• Wired – Geek Mom
• Wired – Underwire

We’ll be updating this with lists as we see them, but feel free to add lists in the comments or contact us!

Previous Editions:

• 2011
• 2010
• 2009