At the same time, and probably for the first time, because I really never felt the pressure when I was drawing Spider-Man or other established Marvel or DC characters, probably because so many different writers and artists have worked on those characters but this time, I did feel a little bit of the pressure. To be a part of this worldwide phenomenon, as one of only a few people that have drawn "The Walking Dead," which is really just Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. Martin: This whole process was really exciting. So I thought, why don't we just ask? I thought there was no way that Robert would say, yes to this story, so we sent him the pitch for "The Walking Dead: The Alien" and he read it and said he loved it, and "Full speed ahead." I love it it and I knew there was some continuity things that Robert had hinted at that maybe the audience had not got an answer for. And secondly, I am just a big fanboy of "The Walking Dead." I've been reading it in monthly issues since I picked up the very first issue at my store a million years ago. And with Marcos being born and raised in Barcelona, it seemed like a great opportunity to show us a scene of this universe that we haven't seen before. I wanted to take a look at somewhere else in the world. Vaughan & Martin Debut Name-Your-Price, DRM-Free, Digital "Private Eye"Īnd in particular, because we have this global audience with Panel Syndicate, that was the first thing that I wanted to do. I didn't think that I'd ever seen in the comic, Robert cut away from the States. I also wanted to do something away from the main cast. And I also wanted it to be story that if you don't want to read it, you're not going to miss out on anything, but also if it's your very first "The Walking Dead" story, you'll be able to understand it.
It's always strange to write other people's characters, so I wanted to go for a big swing but I also didn't want to step on what Robert and Charlie are doing in the book. If you want to do something with the existing cast or if you want to do something in the past, just pitch it to me." It's been eight years since I'd done work for hire. "The Walking Dead" is such a universal phenomenon that maybe people who never thought about reading digital comics would have to do it to read more of their beloved "The Walking Dead." It seemed like a great way to entice people that had never visited a pay-what-you-want site or never read digital comics to check it out.ĭid Robert give you any restrictions in terms of what you could and couldn't do in a story set in "The Walking Dead" universe? And when he suggested, jokingly, that we could have "The Walking Dead" if Image could have "The Private Eye," it was Marcos' idea that this was a great opportunity. It was really Kirkman, who begged us to bring "The Private Eye" to Image. Is there a way for Panel Syndicate to reach out beyond the normal audience? It felt like the first step was maybe doing something in print, because I recognize that there are a lot of people who never want to read digital comics. But we wondered if there was a way to reach beyond those people who love Marcos' work and for people who know my work. That said, it felt like we had reached the limit of what we could do, which was huge enough to sustain us to keep doing new projects at Panel Syndicate forever.
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