It must be hard to be Robert Kirkman, celebrated Zombie hater and comic auteur. I mean, sure, you have a enormously successful series of comics denigrating the Differently Animated, and your tv show based on said comics is almost sure to be a smash hit, bringing the gruesome anti-Zombie violence to the small(er) screen in a way that hasn’t been done before.
I mean, heck, they even got Frank Darabont of Shawshank Redemption fame to helm the tv series, and the series will be shown in a staggering 120 countries.

Yet, imagine if you will, when Mr. Kirkman goes into a Barnes and Noble, and sees, in the fiction section, tables and tables full of ‘Zombie’ books. Oh, how it must burn; his particular works are safely ensconced, segregated you might say, away from the ‘real’ books, in the comics section.

Well, a solution is at hand; Walking Dead branded *novels*:

The Walking Dead is already an acclaimed comic book, and at the end of the month it’ll become a TV series — but now creator Robert Kirkman is turning it into a trilogy of novels as well.

According to Publishers Marketplace, Kirkman made a deal for “a trilogy set in the zombie-infested world from Kirkman’s New York Times bestselling comic book series as well as the upcoming AMC television show.”

Next up: Walking Dead lunchboxes and placemats, if this is any indication.

Merchandizing! It’s all about merchandizing (or perhaps ‘moichendizing’ is more accurate).

Tags: Comics, Robert Kirkman

This entry was posted by John Sears on Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 at 5:08 pm and is filed under Zombie Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.