Amazon.com has released its top ten Comics & Graphic Novels list for 2009. Congratulations to Drawn & Quarterly for three entries on the list!
Welcome to our Best of 2009 top 10 lists for Comics & Graphic Novels. We've put our editors' picks and our 2009 bestsellers for each category on the same page together, so you can easily compare. Click on "Editors' Picks" to see our editors' list of the best comics and graphic novels of 2009, including our top pick, Stitches, David Small's searing child's-eye memoir of his early years. And click on "Customer Favorites" to find the bestselling comics and graphic novels at Amazon.com during 2009. (Ranked according to customer orders through October. Only books published for the first time in 2009 are eligible.)
1. Stitches: A Memoir, WW Norton
2. George Sprott: (1894-1975), Drawn and Quarterly
3. Asterios Polyp, Pantheon Books
4. All Star Superman, Vol. 2, DC Comics
5. The Umbrella Academy: Dallas, Dark Horse
6. Locas II: Maggie, Hopey & Ray (Love & Rockets), Fantagraphics
7. The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, First Second
8. A Drifting Life, Drawn and Quarterly
9. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb, WW Norton
10. Masterpiece Comics, Drawn and Quarterly
