Source: Newsarama: SDCC ’09: A Darker Shade of Ink: Crime and Noir in Comics
- Darwyn Cooke is one of creators on the panel, discussing crime and noir in comics.

Source: Newsarama: SDCC 09: Graphic Novels and Novelists
- Seth and Bryan Lee O’Malley are two of the panelists, discussing graphic novels.

“A fan asked how cultural background influenced the sequential elements of the form.

Seth, being Canadian, decided that that must be why his books are boring. But then Bryan Lee O’Malley cited himself as Canadian, blowing that argument out of the water. O’Malley then said it’s hard to look at your own work and see those things, and left it up to others.”

Source: Comics Continuum: Comic-Con: Bryan Lee O’Malley
- Spotlight on Bryan Lee O’Malley, moderated by Scott McCloud.

“Scott Pilgrim #6 will likely be released in 2010″

Source: Comic Book Resources: CCI: Scott Pilgrim: The Video Game
- Bryan Lee O’Malley discusses the upcoming Scott Pilgrim video game, which will coincide with the upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe movie.

“Universal hooked up with a number of different publishers, and we ended up going with Ubisoft. We talked about having an old school video game feeling like the books. That’s something we talked about with Universal, and Ubisoft has more to do with that idea, that aesthetic. We’re happy about it.”

Source: Comic Book Resources: CCI: The Image Comics Panel
- Robert Kirkman announces that David Finch will be illustrating the cover to Invincible Returns one-shot.

“The focus then shifted to Robert Kirkman as he discussed the future of three of his projects. “It’s a bold, new era for Invincible,” he exclaimed, revealing a David Finch-illustrated cover to “Invincible Returns” #1, a special one-shot issue that sees Mark Grayson returning to his original yellow costume. “

Source: Comic Book Resources: CCI: McFarlane Pencils “Spawn” #200
Todd McFarlane discusses Spawn #200, where he will write, pencil, and ink the issue. The issue is scheduled for a 2010 release.

““It’s issue #200, a big anniversary book, so I thought I’d come in there,” McFarlane told CBR News of his return to “Spawn’s” pencil-based interiors. “I’ve got some ideas for the story where I might have some pages done by guest artists for some flashback sequences. I’d do the A-story, and then within the confines of that there would be three or four little B-snippet flashbacks. So it’d kind of put together an all-star team, but until I get them to fully commit, I’ll hold off on the names.”“

Source: Comic Book Resources: CCI Exclusive: Kirkman and McFarlane on “Haunt”
- Robert Kirkman and Todd McFarlane discuss their new creation, to be released by Images Comics starting October 2009.

“”We’ve had some fits and starts, and some false starts,” admitted McFarlane. “I didn’t want to be in a position where I put out a solicitation for the sake of putting out a solicitation. That’s too easy. I keep telling my Image partners that that’s the easiest thing that anybody can do in comic books. The hard part is delivering a book on time that’s of high quality, and maybe even delaying the solicitation so that you can hype it a little bit more. I know it’s been a little frustrating to Robert, but it’s already been two years – what’s two years and one month? We gotta do it. We gotta get it right. We gotta get this thing down. So him and I knocked down some of the big issues both creatively and on a business-marketing level, and now I’m inking the cover for issue #2. ‘Haunt’ has been given birth.”"

Source: Newsarama: SDCC 09 – Marvel’s X-MEN Panel

“Some more catch-up, Aaron on Yanick Paquette’s art in Weapon X: “He gets to draw some of the craziest stuff you’ve ever seen in a Wolverine book.” “

Source: Comic Book Resources: CCI: Kirman and McFarlane on “Image United”

“Perhaps a better person to weigh in on the hard work going into “Image United” is Todd McFarlane, the “Spawn” creator representing 1/6th of the drawing force. “It’s easy to jump onto ['Image United'] in theory, but then all of the sudden you get to the reality of actually having to do it,” he said about tackling the series. “It’s a bit of a nuisance in the way that everybody has a sort of 9-5 job, we’ve all got our other books that we gotta get out. These pages kind of come from heaven and all of a sudden it’s like, ‘I’ve gotta get it done. Okay, okay, I’ll get it done.’ But I’ve found that once I get to those pages, it’s a breath of fresh air.”"

Source: Newsarama: SDCC 09 – Marvel’s CUP ‘O JOE Panel

“A kid: “What happened to the Lizard?” Wacker: “Next February, you’re going to be really happy. So do good in school!” Story by Zeb Wells and Chris Bachalo. “

Source: Newsarama: SDCC 09 – The Image Comics Show

“The panel shifted back to [McFarlane] who mentioned the hallmark issue of Spawn #200—comparing his series to the likes of Cerebus because of its prolific run. He then revealed that he would also be penciling and inking the entire issue of #200 for his fans and that he hoped to bring in the other Founding Fathers of Image for pieces of flashback material.”

Source: Newsarama: SDCC 09 – Disney’s New PRINCE (of Persia)

“[Bernard] Chang chimed in that he’s biting that image for a scene in his story, and, like any Prince of Persia fan, loves the spike pit, promising some homages. “

“Cameron Stewart’s chapter has a story dealing directly with the Prince, and a slide showed some in progress work. Some of the chapters will deal with peripheral characters, however.”

“Bernard Chang’s tale will be one of Dastan himself, and Tommy Lee Edwards’ is one of Tamina, the princess who runs around with Prince during film. She’s the keeper of the sands.

Chang: “For me, I used to be a Disney Imagineer, with a degree in architecture, so I’m psyched for things like the spike pit. I look forward to the depth of world in this. It’s a lot of fun to illustrate the run-through of this rich world and environment.”"

“Tom Fowler will be drawing the larger framing sequence. “

Source: /Film: Comic-Con: Scott Pilgrim, the Video Game!

“This had to happen. I hoped that word would ’slip out’ during the “Spotlight on Bryan Lee O’Malley” panel today at Comic Con. That didn’t happen, as the panel focused more on O’Malley’s art and history (entirely appropriate, really) but Attack of the Show broke the news, so it’s out in the wild. Hooray! UbiSoft is making a Scott Pilgrim video game to coincide with the release of Edgar Wright’s film. It’s a downloadable side-scrolling old-school beat-em-up. Sounds like a good way to get some of the scenes that didn’t make it into the film onto screens anyway. This is a ’soft’ announcement; expect more details from UbiSoft next week.”

Congratulations to Ian Boothby (Writer, and Canadian), Nina Matsumoto (Penciller), and Andrew Pepoy (Inker) for their Eisner Award win under the Best Short Story category, for their story “Murder He Wrote” in The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #14, published by Bongo Comics. (Source: The Beat: Eisner Award Winners)

Prince of Persia Cover by Todd McFarlane

Source: Newsarama: SDCC 09 – SUPERMAN: TWO WORLDS Panel

“Tying in to Codename Patriot, Robinson will be doing another Jimmy Olsen special, with art by Bernard Chang.”

Source: Comic Book Resources: CCI: DC Comics Superman Panel

“Sterling Gates mentioned September’s “Supergirl Annual,” which is the origin of Superwoman. “Secret Files” comes out in conjunction with “Codename Patriot,” with art by Jamal Igle, Francis Manapul, and more.”

Source: Comic Book Resources: CCI: Vertigo New Ongoing Series/Crime Line

Gus, the lead character, in Lemire’s “Sweet Tooth” earned an appreciation of cuteness from Berger although as the artist explained, the series won’t dwell on cuteness. A human/deer hybrid, Gus roams a post-apocalyptic America ruined by the creation of hybrid animals…and a world he’s never lived in. The naivete of the character will lead him down some distressing paths over the course of the first arc.

Source: Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources: SDCC ‘09 | Bachalo and Jock enlist in EA’s Army of Two

Electronic Arts is at Comic-Con promoting, among other video games, Army of Two: The 40th Day, in which much rides on the moral choices made by the two players.

To help illustrate the long-term impact of those decisions, the developers brought in artists Chris Bachalo and Jock to provide sequences of still images that show how those actions play out.

Destructoid has a slick promotional video for The 40th Day, plus a couple of illustrations by the artists. The game’s website also has a press release about Bachalo and Jock.

Source: Spawn.Com: ‘Prince of Persia’ Graphic Novel Cover Art Revealed

Posted above is the cover to the Prince of Persia graphic novel that will be released in April 2010. Cover artwork by Todd McFarlane.

Comic-Con Schedule Update: Stan Lee to Accept Guinness Record with Todd

Breaking news: legendary comic book creator Stan Lee will be joining Todd this Saturday at the Image Comics booth (#2729). If you’ve been following the Comic-Con news, you may have heard that Todd will be receiving a Guinness World Record for his work on Spider-Man #1 — “the Best Selling Comic, Single Edition.” We’re pleased to announce that not only will Todd, the writer and artist on this historic book, be on hand to accept the award, but the creator of Spider-Man, Stan Lee himself, will be there as well. Join us in the Image Comics booth this Saturday at 5:00pm to witness the acceptance ceremony.