Shane Walsh (The Walking Dead)
Shane Walsh was created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, the writer and original artist of "The Walking Dead" comic book series. The character first appeared in the first issue of the comic book series in October 2003, but was expanded upon greatly in the television show adapted from the comics in 2010. As a result, Shane lives much longer in the chronology of the story in the show than he does in the comics. Kirkman described the comic book version of Shane's character as a short and quick "wham, bam, thank you ma'am" arc compared to that of his counterpart in the television series. Kirkman said he preferred the show's version of Shane and that the differences between the two versions of the character illustrate the ability to explore and evolve elements from the comic book in different ways on the show.
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.