With the amazing The Walking Dead having returned this last Sunday.. oh wait.. yesterday. We felt we should have share with you some bad news that Dread Central reported on. Michael Anthony (“Tony”) Moore is suing Robert Kirkman. Tony is was a childhood friend and helped create The Walking Dead. He is trying to claim in a lawsuit that he deserves up to half of the profit that the comic and show have been generating.
According to Tony
Each of these works was prepared by [Moore] and Kirkman with the intention that their contributions be merged into inseparable or independent parts of a unitary whole,” the complaint states. “[Moore] and Kirkman were thus joint authors and co-owners of the copyrights in these works.
Kirkman has already responded though with an interview in The Hollywood Reporter
The lawsuit is ridiculous, we each had legal representation seven years ago and now he is violating the same contract he initiated and approved and he wants to misrepresent the fees he was paid and continues to be paid for the work he was hired to do. Tony regularly receives payment for the work he did as penciler, inker and for gray tones on the first six issues of The Walking Dead comic series and he receives royalties for the TV show, to assert otherwise is simply incorrect.
If that is true (which hopefully it is as I would hate to see anything bad happen to one of my most beloved zombie franchises) than we all have nothing to worry about!
