Robert Kirkman born November 30 1978 is an American comic book writer screenwriter and producer He is best known for cocreating The Walking Dead Fear the Walking Dead Invincible Tech Jacket Outcast Oblivion Song and Fire Power for Image Comics in addition to writing Ultimate XMen Irredeemable AntMan and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics He has also collaborated with Image Comics cofounder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt He is one of the five partners of Image Comics currently serving as COO and the only one of the five who was not one of its cofounders In 2010 Kirkman cofounded the entertainment company Skybound Entertainment in order to develop properties in traditional and new media including comics television and film The company also manages the license for The Walking Dead and Invincible In 2018 Skybound expanded to create Skybound Games to develop video games based on its intellectual property Kirkman is also known for creating and producing the television series Outcast and Invincible both adaptations of his own comic book series He has also written a number of episodes for The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead He is executive producer of the AMC series Robert Kirkmans Secret History of Comics and the Korean preapocalyptic drama Five Year Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Kirkman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia