Up for auction a RARE! "The Walking Dead" Robert Kirkman Hand Signed Drawing. This item is
certified authentic by Autograph World and comes with their Certificate of
Authenticity.
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Robert Kirkman (/ˈkɜːrkmən/; born November 30, 1978) is an American comic book writer
best known for co-creating The Walking Dead, Invincible, Tech Jacket, Outcast and Oblivion Song for Image Comics, in addition to writing Ultimate X-Men, Irredeemable Ant-Man 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. Robert Kirkman's first comic book work was the 2000 superhero parody Battle Pope, which he co-created with artist Tony Moore, self-published
under the Funk-O-Tron label, and was adapted into a season of 8 animated
webisodes that appeared on Spike TV's website in
2008. Later, while pitching a new series, Science Dog, Kirkman and
artist Cory Walker were
hired to do a SuperPatriot miniseries for Image Comics. While working on that book, Kirkman and E. J. Su created the 2002 Image series Tech Jacket, which ran six issues, and the one-shot
title, Cloudfall. In 2003, Kirkman and Walker created Invincible for
Image's new superhero line. The story surrounded the adolescent son of the
world's most powerful superhero, who develops powers and starts his own
superhero career. Walker later failed to meet the monthly title's deadlines and
was replaced by Ryan Ottley. In
2005, Paramount Pictures announced
it had bought the rights to produce an Invincible feature
film, and hired Kirkman to write the screenplay.
Shortly
after the launch of Invincible, Kirkman and Moore began The Walking Dead (2003). Kirkman said in 2012 that Image had balked at
publishing a comics series featuring what it felt was simply another zombie
story, prompting him to say the zombies were part of an alien plot—a notion he
had no intention of using except as a means of selling the project. Artist Charlie Adlard replaced Tony Moore with issue #7. Moore
continued to draw covers until issue 24 as well as the first four volumes of
the trade paperbacks for the series. Kirkman was first hired by Marvel Comics to pen a revival of the 1990s Sleepwalker series, but it was canceled before being
published; the contents of its first issue were included in Epic Anthology No. 1 (2004). He soon became a
mainstay at Marvel, writing the "Avengers Disassembled" issues of Captain America vol. 4, 2004's Marvel Knights 2099 one-shots event, Jubilee #1–6 and Fantastic Four: Foes #1–6, a two-year run on Ultimate X-Men and the entire Marvel Team-Up vol. 3 and the Irredeemable Ant-Man miniseries.
At Image, Kirkman and artist Jason Howard created the ongoing series The Astounding Wolf-Man,
launching it on May 5, 2007, as part of Free Comic Book Day.
Kirkman edited the monthly series Brit, based on the character he created for the series of
one-shots, illustrated by Moore and Cliff Rathburn. It ran 12 issues. Kirkman announced in 2007
that he and artist Rob Liefeld would
team on a revival of Killraven for Marvel Comics. Kirkman
that year also said he and Todd McFarlane would collaborate on Haunt for Image Comics. In late July 2008, Kirkman was made a partner at
Image Comics, thereby ending his freelance association with Marvel. Nonetheless,
later in 2009, he and Walker produced the five-issue miniseries The Destroyer vol.
4 for Marvel's MAX imprint. In 2009, Kirkman
and Marc Silvestri took
over the 2009–2010 Pilot Season for Top Cow Comics. The 2009/2010 Pilot Season contains a series
of five one-shot pilot comics that readers will be able to vote on which omes
an ongoing series. Each series is co-created by Silvestri who also provides
cover art. In 2010, he also began producing the television adaption of his
comic book series The Walking Dead, the
pilot of which was directed by Frank Darabont. Kirkman has written or co-written
seven episodes of the series. Kirkman also created and serves as an executive
producer on the show's companion series, Fear the Walking Dead. In
July 2010, Kirkman announced he would launch and run a new Image Comics imprint called Skybound Entertainment.