Robert Kirkman Quotes

I like good stories above all else… and kickin’ art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Don’t you get it? We are The Walking Dead!

I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I’m a light hearted superhero kind of guy.

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

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

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

Well see, I’m a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

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

Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That’s what’s going on here brian. The devil’s figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.

I write the way I write.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.

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.

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.

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

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.

It’s nice to know that what you’re doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.