Tag: robert kirkman

We made it people. Finally, a comic book person has made The View. Robert Kirkman will appear on today's Halloween-themed edition of the popular coffee-klatsch chat fest.

Besties Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld will team on a new SFish book called THE INFINITE for Kirkman's Skybound imprint at Image, USA Today reports.

This year in addition to our usual questions for the Year-End Survey – sent to a mix of creators, publishers, journalists and marketing personal—we added a new category: Person of the Year, the person who, we we put it, was "the most important person, someone who had an impact, someone who set the pace, or had a banner year." We were very curious to see what kind of responses this question would get – while a lot of people are doing some of the best work of their careers, or emerging as critical favorites, it was a very mixed year business-wise and we were wondering who would be seen as the most visionary and decisive person. Well, we needn't have worried that this would be a hard question to answer.

This is either a zombie renaissance, or a comic book renaissance for TV, as The Walking Dead has officially been greenlit for a second season or a whole 13 episodes after record ratings. As the President of AMC put it:

"No other cable series has ever attracted as many Adults 18-49 as ‘The Walking Dead.

That's called making an impact. The second episode, which aired last night, w as down only a tick from the premiere's record breaking ratings. Congrats once again to Robert Kirkman and company. PR below.

The Walking Dead premiere last night was the highest rated cable series premiere of 2010, and its highest rating EVER on AMC for an original series, Deadline reports. The premiere drew 5.3 million total...