You did not expect Linton, did you? I have made the hat fly off your head to the sound of a Swanee whistle. If you’re not familiar with this classic mystery solving character, I’m sure a brief trip into the Bad Machinery archive at GoComics will assist you.
Here, for you, same as every year, my albums of the year. I thought it was a good year, lots to listen to and enjoy. Of course, time will tell if these releases live long in the memory. It’s funny when I look back at old lists and see which long players stayed in rotation.
Here’s a Spotify playlist with a song from each (with the exception of two that weren’t on Spotify, so I have put a song from #41 and #42 on to make up the numbers).
And here are the charts for years going back to 1987. Can I make it to 40 years of charts?
1 IMAGINAL DISK – Magdalena Bay
2 RONG WEICKNES – Fievel Is Glauque
3 NIGHT PALACE – Mount Eerie
4 CHARM – Clairo
5 WORLD OF WORK – Clarissa Connelly
6 BELOW A MASSIVE DARK LAND – Naima Bock
7 PAINT A ROOM – Chris Cohen
8 PAUL BUNYAN’S SLINGSHOT – Liquid Mike
9 THE PILGRIM, THEIR GOD, AND THE KING OF MY DECREPIT MOUNTAIN – Tapir
10 PEGASUS – Sex On Toast
11 DOGGIE PADDLIN’ THRU THE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS – Psychic Temple
12 LOOPHOLE – Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
13 MANNING FIREWORKS – MJ Lenderman
14 LIMITS OF LANGUAGE – Field Music
15 ONE MORE AGAIN – Dylan Moon
16 WEIRD ROOMS – The Black Watch
17 HERE IN THE PITCH – Jessica Pratt
18 LATE SLAP – Dana Gavanski
19 BOX FOR BUDDY, BOX FOR STAR – This Is Lorelai
20 WHO’S A GOOD BOY – Bory
21 MALAGROTTA – Augie March
22 A DREAM IS ALL WE KNOW – Lemon Twigs
23 SCHEDULED EXPLOSIONS – 2nd Grade
24 THE OPTIMISTIC WRENCH EP – UV-TV
25 GRAVITY STAIRS – Crowded House
26 SEED OF A SEED – Haley Heynderickx
27 SOUVENIR – Omni
28 HEX – Jon McKiel
29 IMAGINARY FRIENDS – The Junipers
30 FOR EVERY SET OF EYES – J. Mamana
31 LA FLEUR – Kelly Stoltz
32 DIAMOND JUBILEE – Cindy Lee
33 ETHEREAL ESSENCE – Cornelius
34 EELS – Being Dead
35 MY LIGHT, MY DESTROYER – Cassandra Jenkins
36 HOWL – Daisy Rickman
37 BIG FOR YOU – Zsela
38 TAPED OVER EP – Novelty Island
39 INFINITE SKY EP – Twen
40 CATCHING CHICKENS EP – Nourished By Time
Issue 1 of a new 4-part limited series (with me writing and Max Sarin drawing) is out from Dark Horse in April 2025. It’s a follow-up to Great British Bump-Off called KILL OR BE QUILT.
I’ll have further details in the new year, but here is the cover to the first issue, and the variant cover for #1 by Lissa Treiman. Read more about it at CBR.
If you want to sign up to my Patreon – and why wouldn’t you, crammed as it is with hot content, please make sure you sign up via the website, as new signups via the Apple app store Patreon app are now subject to a 1/3 surcharge, payable to Apple.
Nothing changes for existing subscribers. But if you perhaps take a break, then re-sign up, do it on the website, not the app.
THAT IS ALL.
THAT IS NOT ALL:
Thank you to everyone who supports me via the Patreon. Were it not for this support during a few pretty awful years, the webcomics would not have continued.
Just a reminder that if you’re looking for the archives that the malware attack earlier this year destroyed, I put Steeple, Bobbins (2013), Destroy History, Giant Days (self-published 1-4) and Kit + The Wolf all back up – there are links to them in the menu bar or on one handy page on scarygoround.com.
A few UK comic shops are now carrying SOLVER. Roll up in person or order online! All copies at the shops below are signed. The links will take you to direct to the book.
OK Comics, Leeds
Gosh Comics, London
Page 45, Nottingham
Readers outside the UK, hang tight: it should be available from my Topatoco shop in the autumn.
