Robert Kirkman Quotes
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Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead!
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It's no secret that I love the Ultimate line.
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It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.
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I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.
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I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.
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I think that comics and television, as mediums, go hand in hand. Both tell long-form, continuing stories that are parsed out into little chapters and, if are successful, continue for years and years. What that means to me, as a writer, is it tells stories of transformation and evolution as characters.
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When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes for someone else to make the end product essentially. My scripts are just directions for the artist to draw pages and the pages are what is seen. I kind of feel like it's a safety net, you're able to hide behind the art to a certain extent, and in television you're able to hide behind the actors and the production, but with novels, your words are it
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I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.
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In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.
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I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.
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Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.
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I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
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We're always exploring new ideas in the writers room, and those kinds of ideas snowball from season to season and drive the show in a different direction.
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I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.
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I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.
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I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.
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You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.
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To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.
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I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.
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We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I will say that there is a third uncontrollable, almost undefeatable threat that is going to come in when the characters of the show are at their most vulnerable. It's really going to be something that they have a hard time dealing with.
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This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.
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Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.
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If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.
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I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.
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I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.
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I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.
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June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
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Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.
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I write the way I write.
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But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.
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