First and foremost a comic creator, Kirkman has seen groundbreaking success in the adaptation of his comic book titles into major franchises in all forms of content. In 2010, his Eisner award winning series, The Walking Dead, was developed into an AMC television series. It has become a worldwide phenomenon as the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time. The property has also been extended into a blockbuster game franchise, licensing business and ongoing publishing success.
Additional Kirkman comics include Oblivion Song, Die!Die!Die!, Invincible, Outcast, Super Dinosaur, Battle Pope, Astounding Wolf-Man, and Thief of Thieves.
Kirkman also serves as consulting producer of The Talking Dead, the popular talk show hosted by Chris Hardwick that deep dives into each week’s episode of both The Walking Dead and its companion series Fear the Walking Dead. Kirkman is co-creator, writer and producer of The Walking Dead’s companion series, Fear the Walking Dead.
He is also executive producer of the AMC series Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics, and the Korean pre-apocalyptic drama, Five Year. Kirkman’s popular demonic-exorcism comic, Outcast, was adapted and produced for Cinemax. His second longest running coming book series Invincible is currently being adapted for a live action movie for Universal and an animated series for Amazon. Kirkman will serve as Executive Producer on both adaptations.
Robert is also the Chairman of Skybound Entertainment. Robert, an advocate for creator rights, co-founded Skybound alongside his longtime business and producing partner David Alpert in an effort to ensure creators are able to maintain their intellectual property rights and creative control.
Andy Diggle is a comics writer, and former editor of cult British sci-fi anthology 2000 AD. He is currently writing Shadowman for Valiant and Promethee 13:13 for Comixology/Delcourt. Andy is best know for collaborating with Jock on Green Arrow: Year One which inspired the hit TV show Arrow; and The Losers, which was adapted into the 2010 movie starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Zoe Saldana, and Idris Elba. Andy’s previous work includes Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, and Adam Strange for DC Comics; Daredevil, Captain America, Hawkeye, and Thunderbolts for Marvel; Doctor Who for IDW; Thief of Thieves for Skybound; James Bond, Uncanny and Control for Dynamite. His creator-owned work includes Snapshot, Rat Catcher, and Silent Drago.
Felix Serrano is a professional comic book colourist. He began his career in 1998 working for Marvel Comics in their title Generation X. The same year, his first work for DC Comics was published in the title JLA Secret Files. He later worked on Batman.
Most recently he has been working for IDW Publishing, Image Comics and Marvel Comics.
Shawn Martinbrough is the author of How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling by Penguin Random House and an Eisner Award nominated artist whose comic book projects include Batman: Detective Comics, DMZ, Luke Cage Noir, The Black Panther, and Hellboy. He is also a Vanity Fair contributor.
Shawn also illustrated Thief of Thieves, the graphic novel series co-created with Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible) and the Eisner award nominated Prométhée 13:13 published by Éditions Delcourt-Soleil and ABLAZE.
