Robert Kirkman
- Writing
- November 30, 1978 · Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Biography
Robert Kirkman (born November 30, 1978) is an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and producer. He 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. 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 currently serving as COO, and the only one of the five who was not one of its co-founders. In 2010, Kirkman co-founded the entertainment company Skybound Entertainment in order to develop properties in traditional and new media, including comics, television, and film. The company also manages the license for The Walking Dead and Invincible. In 2018, Skybound expanded to create Skybound Games to develop video games based on its intellectual property. Kirkman is also known for creating and producing the television series' Outcast and Invincible, both adaptations of his own comic book series. He has also written a number of episodes for The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead. He is executive producer of the AMC series Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics, and the Korean pre-apocalyptic drama, Five Year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Kirkman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Spike and Mike's Animation Extravaganza · Executive producer
- Tell Me Your Name · Executive producer
- HEART ATTACK · Executive producer
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live · Graphic Novel, Executive producer
- Classified · Executive producer
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon · Executive producer, Graphic Novel
- The Walking Dead: Dead City · Executive producer, Graphic Novel
- Psi Cops · Executive producer
- Attack of the Doc! · Self
- Renfield · Screenstory, Producer
- The Escape Pod Podcast
- Tales of the Walking Dead · Executive producer, Graphic Novel
- What If...? · Thanks
- INVINCIBLE · Executive producer, Comic Book
- The Walking Dead: World Beyond · Executive producer, Graphic Novel
- James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction · Self
- So Much Damage: How Image Comics Changed the World · Self
- Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics · Self, Executive producer
- The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking · Robert Kirkman (Voice), Writer
- Geeking Out · Self
- Outcast · Writer, Executive producer
- Fear the Walking Dead · Executive producer, Writer
- Air · Producer
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Ant-Man · Thanks
- StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Self
- Doc of the Dead · Self
- The Image Revolution · Self
- @midnight with Chris Hardwick · Self
- The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead · Self
- Comedy Bang! Bang! · Self
- Good Mythical Morning · Self
- Nightmare Factory · Self
- Talking Dead · Self
- The Walking Dead · Walker (uncredited), Executive producer
- The Making of The Walking Dead · Self
- The Soup · Self
- The Mole People · Producer
- An American Werewolf in London · Producer
- Stillwater · Executive producer
- Fatal Fury: The Vow · Executive producer