First and foremost a comic creator, Kirkman has seen groundbreaking success in the adaptation of his comic book titles into major franchises in all forms of content. In 2010, his Eisner award winning series, The Walking Dead, was developed into an AMC television series. It has become a worldwide phenomenon as the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time. The property has also been extended into a blockbuster game franchise, licensing business and ongoing publishing success.

Additional Kirkman comics include Oblivion Song, Die!Die!Die!, Invincible, Outcast, Super Dinosaur, Battle Pope, Astounding Wolf-Man, and Thief of Thieves.

Kirkman also serves as consulting producer of The Talking Dead, the popular talk show hosted by Chris Hardwick that deep dives into each week’s episode of both The Walking Dead and its companion series Fear the Walking Dead. Kirkman is co-creator, writer and producer of The Walking Dead’s companion series, Fear the Walking Dead.

He is also executive producer of the AMC series Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics, and the Korean pre-apocalyptic drama, Five Year. Kirkman’s popular demonic-exorcism comic, Outcast, was adapted and produced for Cinemax. His second longest running coming book series Invincible is currently being adapted for a live action movie for Universal and an animated series for Amazon. Kirkman will serve as Executive Producer on both adaptations.

Robert is also the Chairman of Skybound Entertainment. Robert, an advocate for creator rights, co-founded Skybound alongside his longtime business and producing partner David Alpert in an effort to ensure creators are able to maintain their intellectual property rights and creative control.

Nick Spencer is a London-based comics writer, best known for his creator-owned Image titles like the genre-bending mystery series MORNING GLORIES, the gory & gritty crime procedural BEDLAM, and the high concept sci-fi thriller THE INFINITE VACATION-- as well as his work at Marvel and DC Comics on Secret Avengers, Superior Foes Of Spider-Man, Cloak & Dagger, Thunder Agents, Jimmy Olsen, and Avengers World.

He also collaborated with Robert Kirkman on the inaugural arc of THIEF OF THIEVES at Image, and with Jonathan Hickman on Avengers.

Shawn Martinbrough is the author of How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling by Penguin Random House and an Eisner Award nominated artist whose comic book projects include Batman: Detective Comics, DMZ, Luke Cage Noir, The Black Panther, and Hellboy. He is also a Vanity Fair contributor.

Shawn also illustrated Thief of Thieves, the graphic novel series co-created with Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible) and the Eisner award nominated Prométhée 13:13 published by Éditions Delcourt-Soleil and ABLAZE.

Felix Serrano is a professional comic book colourist. He began his career in 1998 working for Marvel Comics in their title Generation X. The same year, his first work for DC Comics was published in the title JLA Secret Files. He later worked on Batman.

Most recently he has been working for IDW Publishing, Image Comics and Marvel Comics.