Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and television producer.
27 Facts About Robert Kirkman
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Robert Kirkman is best known for co-creating The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Invincible, Tech Jacket, Outcast, Oblivion Song and Fire Power for Image Comics, in addition to writing Ultimate X-Men, Irredeemable Ant-Man and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics.
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Robert Kirkman has collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt.
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Robert Kirkman is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of its co-founders.
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In 2010, Kirkman founded entertainment company Skybound Entertainment in order to develop properties in traditional and new media, including comics, television, and film.
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Robert Kirkman manages the license for The Walking Dead and Invincible.
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Robert Kirkman is known for creating and producing the television series Outcast and Invincible, both adaptations of his own comic book series.
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Robert Kirkman has written a number of episodes for The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead.
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Robert Kirkman was born November 30,1978, in Lexington, Kentucky, and was raised in Cynthiana, Kentucky.
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Robert Kirkman was a fan of zombie films such as the Night of the Living Dead series and Zombi 2 as well as zombie video games such as Resident Evil.
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In 2005, Paramount Pictures announced it had bought the rights to produce an Invincible feature film, and hired Robert Kirkman to write the screenplay.
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In 2003, Robert Kirkman was 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.
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Robert Kirkman soon became a mainstay at Marvel, writing the "Avengers Disassembled" issues of Captain America vol.
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Robert Kirkman continued his exploration of zombies by creating the series Marvel Zombies, in which an alternative Marvel universe's superheroes become zombies.
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Robert Kirkman edited the monthly series Brit, based on the character he created for the series of one-shots, illustrated by Moore and Cliff Rathburn.
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Robert Kirkman announced in 2007 that he and artist Rob Liefeld would team on a revival of Killraven for Marvel Comics.
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In late July 2008, Robert Kirkman was made a partner at Image Comics, thereby ending his freelance association with Marvel.
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Robert Kirkman has written or co-written seven episodes of the series.
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Robert Kirkman created and serves as an executive producer on the show's companion series, Fear the Walking Dead.
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In July 2010, Robert Kirkman announced he would launch and run a new Image Comics imprint called Skybound Entertainment.
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Robert Kirkman made an appearance in a 2012 episode of Adult Swim's Robot Chicken as himself where he tries to tell The Nerd and Daniel a hint, but gets eaten by the zombies.
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Robert Kirkman was a producer of the science fiction thriller Air, which starred The Walking Deads Norman Reedus, and Djimon Hounsou.
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In 2021, Robert Kirkman reaffirmed that the project was still in the works.
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Robert Kirkman pitched the story for Renfield, a horror-comedy about Count Dracula's henchman Renfield.
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Robert Kirkman has written a number of The Walking Dead TV episodes.
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Robert Kirkman is co-creator of the series alongside Dave Erickson.
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Robert Kirkman is an executive producer and has co-written episodes of the series.