Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman at Comic-Con 2019

Robert Kirkman (born November 30, 1978 in Richmond , Kentucky ) is an American comic and film writer.

Career

Kirkman founded the comic book publisher Funk-O-Tron and brought out his self-written series Battle Pope with 13 parts. He developed the series together with Tony Moore . In 2002 the comic book publisher Image Comics offered Kirkman to develop the mini-series SuperPatriot: America's Fighting Force together with Corey Walker . This was followed by Tech Jacket . The hero Invincible from the first issue got his own series at Image Comics, the author of which was Kirkman. A 19-part cartoon series was produced from the series in 2008. In October 2003 the first number of The Walking Dead was released on Halloween . Tony Moore helped him with the preparations. In 2004, Kirkman began working as a freelance writer for Marvel Comics . This work ended in 2010 after becoming a full partner at Image Comics. In Germany, the Ludwigsburg comic publisher Cross Cult is responsible for the distribution of The Walking Dead and Outcast. As a novelist, he published a series of novels with Jay Bonansinga beginning with The Walking Dead .

In 2010 he was nominated for the Scream Award in the Best Comic Book Writer category. In 2012 he won the Saturn Award in the Innovator Award category . .

Works (excerpt)

• Battle Pope (comic)
• Thief of Thieves (Comic, Thief of Thieves )
• Fear the Walking Dead (TV series, scriptwriter for individual episodes)
• Outcast ( comic / TV series )
• SuperPatriot: America's Fighting Force (book)
• Tech Jacket (Comic)
• The Walking Dead (comic)
• The Walking Dead (TV series, scriptwriter for individual episodes)
• Ultimate X-Men (comic)

Audiobooks (excerpt)

2013: The Walking Dead , Random House Audio Deutschland, audio download, unabridged 639 minutes, reader: Michael Hansonis

Web links

• Robert Kirkman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Robert Kirkman in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Robert Kirkman on comicbookdb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ingo Löchel: Zauberspiegel - The Walking Dead: The comic series - ROBERT KIRKMAN. Zauberspiegel-Online.de, accessed on May 5, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Special Awards ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.