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Co-Creator Sues for Accounting of Income from <i>Walking Dead</i> Television Series

By Amanda Bronstad
February 28, 2012

Comic book artist Tony Moore has sued Robert Kirkman, an executive producer of The Walking Dead TV series, claiming he was tricked into signing a 2005 agreement and has been denied an accounting to determine his share of the show's profits. Moore, whose full name is Michael Anthony Moore, claims in a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in February that Kirkman and his company, Kirkman LLC, have failed to provide books and records that would clarify how much Moore should be paid under the agreement. Moore v. Kirkman, BC478780.

“He's received some checks, but that's all he gets are checks,” says Moore's attorney, Devin McRae, a partner at Los Angeles-based Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae. “He's asked for accounting statements and access to the supporting documentation that is supposed to be provided under the agreement, and he's getting stonewalled.”

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