Skybound Entertainment is an American multiplatform entertainment company founded by Robert Kirkman and David Alpert in 2010. An imprint of Image Comics.
Skybound Entertainment is the company behind the long-running comic series, The Walking Dead, created by Robert Kirkman. Since the company’s founding in 2010, Skybound has developed properties in traditional and new media, including comics, gaming, television, film, and digital media series. The company has since launched into the virtual reality space, and in 2017, created an in-house digital studio for online content.
In 2016, Skybound Entertainment expanded internationally with the opening of Skybound North in Vancouver, led by former Lucasfilm Animation executive Catherine Winder.
In April 2018, Skybound created Skybound Games to publish indie games and license video games based on its intellectual property. In September 2018 it established Skybound Stories, a joint venture with Sky Group creating narrative videos games for mobiles.
In addition to the Eisner Award-winning comic book series, The Walking Dead, Kirkman’s other titles include long-running superhero comic Invincible, Outcast, Super Dinosaur, Oblivion Song, and Fire Power.
With a creator-owned driven platform, Skybound has also created other popular comic book titles that include fantasy adventure comic Birthright, by Josh Williamson, and the historical fiction comic, Manifest Destiny by Chris Dingess.
Skybound is the current distributor of the Transformers and G.I. Joe comics after Hasbro's deal with IDW Publishing ended around late 2022.