Robert Kirkman Quotes

• Well, don’t tell Steve Niles but I just don’t think horror works in comics.

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• Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.

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• I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

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• I have trouble writing if I can’t picture how things are going to look.

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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 know there are a lot of readers that think I’ve got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there’s really nothing that’s been like a mirror. I’m just making this stuff up.

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• I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.

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• I don’t presume to think I’m great at anything.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.

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• I’m all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that’s where I draw the line.

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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 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 write the way I write.

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• It’s no secret that I love the Ultimate line.

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• If I’m grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.

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• Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

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Robert Kirkman (25)

Birth:	1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Writer

About

Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead and Invincible for Image Comics, and Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt.

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