Robert Kirkman Tells A Story About The Career Pivot That Put Him On The Path To "The Walking Dead"

With his latest creation lurching toward screens, Robert Kirkman takes us back to a day at a comics convention that set him on the path to The Walking Dead.

The monster success of The Walking Dead feels so inevitable now. The show, which has broken one ratings and social media record (the season five premiere earned 17 million total viewers and 1,320,056 tweets) after another, is the cultural phenomenon we need and deserve as a society reckoning with our own suddenly looming mortality. It may not be walkers on the horizon, but we live with the collective feeling that something is going to overrun our idyllic farm sooner rather than later.

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