The Comics Chronicles has an initial review of the 2009 sales figures as provided by Diamond.  With some of December sales figures in it looks like the overall sales for the year was down about 2% or about $10 million.  For the first time though Diamond Distribution and major comic publishers decided to skip the last week of the month.

The overall sales for 2009 looks to be about $428 million compared to 2008’s $436.6 million and 2007’s $430 million.

You can read their full analysis at their website.