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. Ryan Ottley is a Utah based artist currently working on Invincible for Image Comics. He was the Artist and co-creator of the webcomic strip Ted Noodleman: Bicycle Delivery Boy, and it was through this webstrip that Robert Kirkman first encountered Ottley's work and then offered him the job of penciling Invincible. He has done work for Digital Webbing, Alias Entertainment, Devil's Due, DC, Image And Ape Entertainment. Cory Walker is an American comic book artist who is best known for the early work on Invincible, a series and character he co-created with writer Robert Kirkman. Outside of Image Comics, Cory has worked with Kirkman on Marvel's Destroyer MAX miniseries, t John Rauch is a comic book penciller, inker and Colorist. Some of his works include 100% Marvel, Age of Heroes, 24Seven, Batman, Avengers: Heroes Welcome, The Beauty, Captain America, Convergence Aquaman, Deadpool, G.I. Joe, New Mutants, Spider-Man, Marvel Knights, Teen Titans, Superman/Batman, Venom, Fantastic Four, Wayward, X-Men, Wolverine, Star Trek, and Invincible. Jean-Francois Beaulieu is a comics colorist with a bright and exciting palette. He has worked on award-winning titles like Invincible (with Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley) and I Hate Fairyland (with Skottie Young). Nathan Fairbairn is a Joe Shuster Award-winning creator whose work has frequently topped the New York Times Best Sellers list. Past credits include Nameless, Scott Pilgrim, Batman Incorporated, and Wonder Woman: Earth One. Primarily a colorist, Lake of Fire represents Fairbairn's first creator-owned work as a writer.
