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Here are some of the books I enjoyed that were published in 2009. I’ve included Amazon referral links in case someone would like to buy them.

Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe , Bryan Lee O’Malley, Oni Press
My love for this series just keeps growing. I’m eagerly waiting for the 6th and final volume next year and hopeful that the movie is good.

Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, Vol. 1: Friends, Naoki Urasawa, Viz Media
Urasawa, creator of Monster, creates some of the best manga around. He also has Pluto out this year which I’ve been meaning to pick up.

Parker: The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke, IDW
Cooke branches out from Marvel and DC and turns out a noir thriller that is gorgeous.

The Eternal Smile: Three Stories, Gene Yang & Derek Kirk Kim, First Second
Two of my favorite creators together on a book about how fantasy transform’s people lives.

Webcomics.com switches from a free resources blog into a paid recourse blog at $30 a year. To say some people are not happy about it is probably putting it lightly.

It will be interesting to see how long it can last as a paid site that is targeting web creators. It had/has a lot of useful info for webcomic creators so I think it might be worth the money if you take making webcomics seriously.

The CBR staff’s top 100 comics of 2009. A decent list with a mix of a little bit of everything from Super-heroes, indie, artsy, manga and web.

Slashfilm has the first official shots of Sott Pilgrim vs the World. Flaming sword and all.

Brian Hibbs on the future of the Direct Market periodicals.

A work-in-progress look at Tom Hart’s comics production/creation book How to Sat Everything.