{"id":6407,"date":"2012-02-11T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2012-02-11T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T15:09:27","slug":"kirman-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6407","title":{"rendered":"Kirkman Responds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z021112kirkman_responds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong><\/strong>Just as last week seemed to be <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?s=riddick\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>all about the new Riddick movie staring Vin Diesel<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>, this week is shaping up to focus on all of the news about<em> <em><strong>The Walking Dead.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><\/em>Two days ago the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6399\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>news broke<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> that <strong>Tony Moore<\/strong> [artist on the first six issues of <em><strong>The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em> <strong>comic series<\/strong>, and childhood friend of <strong>Robert Kirkman<\/strong>] was suing<strong> Kirkman<\/strong> over profits from the hit comic and television series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/thr-esq\/walking-dead-creator-robert-kirkman-289308\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> ran the image above [provided by <strong>Kirkman<\/strong>] that shows he is listed as <em><strong>the creator<\/strong><\/em> of the series with <strong>Moore<\/strong> listed as <strong><em>&#8220;penciler, inker and gray tones&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; essentially <em>the hired artist<\/em>.\u00a0 <strong>Kirkman&#8217;s<\/strong> reaction to <strong>Moore&#8217;s<\/strong> lawsuit included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">It appears that any hope for a quick resolution to this suit is fading fast.<\/p>\n<p><em><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as last week seemed to be all about the new Riddick movie staring Vin Diesel, this week is shaping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,61,56,53,50,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-comics","category-horror","category-tv","category-zombies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6411,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}