Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for creating The Walking Dead and Invincible for Image Comics, in addition to writing Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of its co-founders...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComic Book Author
Date of Birth30 November 1978
CityRichmond, KY
CountryUnited States of America
This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.
Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.
I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.
But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.
I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.
Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.
I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.
The X-Men have just been through a lot. It's pretty much been non-stop since the beginning, really. So I'm giving them the night off.
I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.
I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.
As far as the trades go, I want to avoid how comics have captions or just really stilted dialogue at the beginning of the pages.
I think in my nine issues I plan to introduce exactly one character from the Marvel Universe that hasn't appeared in the Ultimate Universe yet.
I know it's funny to hear someone talking about a new Image book making it past issue forty but we're really shooting for that here.