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.
Skybound Licensed Comics[]
In 2023 Kirkman/Skybound expanded beyond creator owned comics to include licensed comics. This included Universal Monsters comic starting with Dracula and continuing to The Creature from the Black Lagoon and to be followed by Frankenstein.
The big news was Skybound getting the G.I. Joe/Transformers license from Hasbro. Continuing the Larry Hama written G.I. Joe A Real American Hero was an easy choice. But Robert Kirkman helped create and launch a new shared/crossover universe, called the Energon Universe.
To that end, Robert Kirkman created and writes the Void Rivals comic title.
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- Void Rivals #1 - writer
- Void Rivals #2 - writer
- Void Rivals #3 - writer
- Void Rivals #4 - writer
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- Void Rivals #11 - writer
- Void Rivals #12 - writer
- Energon Universe Special - writer (Void Rivals story)