2012’s Year of the Dragon Chinese New Year begins today and runs for 15 days of celebrations in China and in Asian cultures around the world. Part of the celebration includes giving out red envelopes (or ‘ang pow’) filled with money to loved ones.

In conjunction with the holiday, Star Cineplex Sibu is giving out Avengers-themed red envelopes to moviegoers in Asia during the first six days of the Chinese New Year celebration, according to Borneo Post (via Coming Soon).

Today marks the beginning of Chinese New Year, the 15-day celebration in Asian cultures filled with gift-giving, family reunions, festivals, fireworks, and wishes of good luck and prosperity in the coming year.

In honor of 2012 being the Year Of The Dragon, author Neil Gaiman sent out a message to his Chinese friends with a drawing of what he says is a “wobbly dragon.”

Check out here below a photo Gaiman posted on his blog of himself holding up the drawing.

The astronauts at the International Space Station celebrated the new year 240 miles above the Earth.

The crew recorded a special New Year’s message for all of us here on the planet, which you can watch here below. Each of the space men gave a personal greeting, including two crew members who did so floating upside down.

Dork Tower is the thrice-weekly comic strip from John Kovalic, a cartoonist and illustrator for games and game supplements.

This year, Kovalic posted a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired New Year’s greeting that I thought was just so clever and adorable.

Another year, another cool holiday greeting from Quirk Books, publisher of awesomeness like Night of the Living Trekkies, The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook, and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, as well as their upcoming release, Jason Heller’s Taft 2012.

This year’s holiday greetings came in the form of a hand-signed and numbered original limited edition silk screened print by Tim Gough that urged everyone to “devour more books” – and I happened to think that that’s a great suggestion!

Check out a photo of my print, which was 117 of 500, here below.