Robert Kirkman and Skybound team up with the Hero Initiative to present 100 all-new covers envisioning the horrors of the bestselling The Walking Dead. This art book features brand-new pieces by The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard, Paolo Rivera, Ryan Ottley, Rafael Albuquerque, and more! This book will never be reprinted and all proceeds go to the Hero Initiative and comic book creators in need!
Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead, Invincible for Image Comics, as well as Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of the original co-founders of that publisher.
Robert Kirkman's first comic books were self-published under his own Funk-o-Tron label. Along with childhood friend Tony Moore, Kirkman created Battle Pope which was published in late 2001. Battle Pope ran for over 2 years along with other Funk-o-Tron published books such as InkPunks and Double Take.
In July of 2002, Robert's first work for another company began, with a 4-part SuperPatriot series for Image, along with Battle Pope backup story artist Cory Walker. Robert's creator-owned projects followed shortly thereafter, including Tech Jacket, Invincible and Walking Dead.
This is the first time I have heard of the 100 Project, a non-profit corporation aiding comic book creators, and of course this issue being for The Walking Dead I had to add it to my collection. These covers range from beautifully simplistic to wonderfully detailed. I enjoyed every cover.
Some great talents are credited for showcasing TWD covers for this charity book along with some up-and-comers to virtually unknowns. Unfortunately the covers, while good, aren't always stunning even by the well known creators, but this effort wasn't any better or worse than prior Project 100 publications.
✨🖤 “A hundred ways to say: this moment broke something we’ll never get back.” ✨
4.9 out of 5 Scarred Covers
Best for: Fans who understand that art remembers differently. That some moments deserve a hundred funerals. Skip if: You don’t want to relive what Issue #100 did to your heart. This book is a gallery of emotional trauma—on purpose.
The 100 Project is not a story—it’s a collective howl. A curated showcase of covers created by dozens of artists to honor, interpret, and memorialize one of the most brutal moments in the series: Glenn’s death. Each cover is a remix of pain. Some are abstract. Some are literal. Some are quiet. Most are screaming.
This book exists to raise money (for Hero Initiative) and to preserve grief. And in that, it succeeds brilliantly. It proves that when a story hits that hard, it stops belonging to the creators. It belongs to the people who carried it.
This isn’t a book you read. It’s one you sit with. And flinch through.
Robert Kirkman and Skybound team up with the Hero Initiative to present 100 all-new covers envisioning the horrors of the bestselling The Walking Dead. This art book features brand-new pieces by The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard, Paolo Rivera, Ryan Ottley, Rafael Albuquerque. This book will never be reprinted and all proceeds go to the Hero Initiative and comic book creators in need. This is a fairly quick perusal and a MUST for fans of The Walking Dead comics. I've been reading the large hardcover books and found this limited-edition book of "covers" really enjoyable. It's an art book with no text, no stories of any kind, alternate covers for issue #100. Enjoy!