Robert Kirkman Quotes

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

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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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• The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.

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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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• Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.

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• June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

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

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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’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 write the way I write.

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

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

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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 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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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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