The creator and writer of The Walking Dead comic book series has stated he will be involved in the writing and production of the AMC television adaption.

"I’ve been out to Hollywood - I’ve been in the writers’ room for a week, working with them on the plots for the first season. I’ve been fairly hands on, but I'm trying to back off as much as I can, because my main focus is the comic-book series.

"As a comic-book reader, I hate it when a comic gets adapted and the writer just takes a vacation. I don’t want to take a vacation. So I’m trying not to spend too much time working on the show, but I’m fairly hands-on.

"Now having said that, if people end up not liking the show, I had nothing to do with it."

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