Book-trade magazine Publishers Weekly is among the first outlets out of the gate with a Best of 2009 list.

In addition to David Small's National Book Award-nominated memoir Stitches, announced last week as one of the magazine's Top 10 books of the year, the PW list includes a comics category:

• Parker: The Hunter, by Darwyn Cooke and Richard Starking (IDW Publishing)

• Driven by Lemons, by Josh Cotter (AdHouse Books)

• Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, and Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna (Bloomsbury)

• The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre (First Second)

• Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni Press)

• Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco (Metropolitan)

• A Drifting Life, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn & Quarterly)

• You'll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man, by Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)

• Pluto, by Naoki Urasawa (Viz Media)