The Walking Dead (comic book)
The Walking Dead is a black-and-white comic book series created by writer Robert Kirkman with art by Tony Moore. It focuses on Rick Grimes, a Kentucky deputy who is shot in the line of duty and awakens from a coma in a zombie apocalypse that has resulted in a state-wide quarantine. After joining with other ones, he gradually takes on the role of leader of a community as it struggles to survive the zombie apocalypse.
Robert Kirkman
Shortly after the launch of "Invincible", Kirkman and Moore began "The Walking Dead" (2003). Kirkman said in 2012 that Image had balked at publishing a comics series featuring what it felt was simply another zombie story, prompting him to say the zombies were part of an alien plot—a notion he had no intention of using except as a means of selling the project. Artist Charlie Adlard replaced Tony Moore with issue #7. Moore continued to draw covers until issue 24 as well as the first four volumes of the trade paperbacks for the series.
Kirkman was first hired by Marvel Comics to pen a revival of the 1990s "Sleepwalker" series, but it was canceled before being published; the contents of its first issue were included in "Epic Anthology" No. 1 (2004). He soon became a mainstay at Marvel, writing the "Avengers Disassembled" issues of "Captain America" vol. 4, 2004's "Marvel Knights 2099" one-shots event, "Jubilee" #1–6 and "Fantastic Four: Foes" #1–6, a two-year run on "Ultimate X-Men" and the entire "Marvel Team-Up" vol. 3 and the "Irredeemable Ant-Man" miniseries.