The Walking Dead has been a global phenomenon, and with the release of the latest collected volume What Comes After, we have an interview to give you an insight into the man himself.

You’ve recently surpassed 100 issues of The Walking Dead. This far in, when you’re making the book, is it still the same as when you started? How is making it different now, or is it?

Robert Kirkman: It’s funny, I try to make the book the same way, but sometimes I think about how different I am, you know, I’ve been working on this for 100 issues. When I started the book, I was living in a very bad part of the town in Kentucky I lived in, I had just gotten married to my wife, we had no children, I was very very very young, and now that I’m writing issue 100, we’re definitely in a different place in our lives, there is a TV show and all this other nonsense going on, and I have a six year old son and a three year old daughter, which is really blowing me away. The process is still the same; I’m still at my laptop, by myself, banging out script, making sure that Charlie [Adlard, The Walking Dead artist] has pages, and I’m committed to the book. I love it almost more than I did in the early days, just because of the uncertainty of being able to tell my story for as long as I want has to a certain extent faded, so I actually can be, “Oh, I can do this now, and in 20 issues I can do this,” and I can actually build to things with much more certainty. But it is kind of ridiculous to think about just how early in the story I still feel like I am, like I’m at issue 100 and I really feel like I just started, which sounds ridiculous but it’s really exciting for me.

How are you able to keep it fresh, writing it for yourself, and not just like, “Oh, another issue of Walking Dead”?

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Here's the second part of our interview with Seth MacFarlane. If you haven't yet read the first part go here :)

Q: Ted opens with a young boy wishing that his favorite toy could speak. How much does that speak to your own childhood dreams and sense of magic?

A: It’s kind of funny because I was in my approach to things probably the reverse. I was much more interested in science and the rational way that things came to be. I wasn’t really a superstitious person. This movie doesn’t necessarily represent any deep rooted point of view as far as whether or not I believe in the power of magic. It’s a fairytale; it’s a fairytale for adults.

Q: Do you plan to make more films?

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The monkeys at Mighty Ape had a chance to speak to Seth MacFarlane, the mastermind behind Family Guy, American Dad, and the Cleveland show, about his big screen debut Ted. Ted is a very adult, live action comedy about a grown man who must part ways with his childhood companion – a talking teddy bear – if he ever hopes to move forward with his increasingly impatient girlfriend. Here's what he had to say…

Q: With all the success you’ve had in television, why did you want to make this movie?

A: I’m just greedy. You know, I was interested in doing something new. I’d been doing animation for close to ten years, actually longer than that if I count my years at Hanna-Barbera, and I felt like I was ready to try it. Also, the idea seemed good. It seemed like something that was a good debut for me, but it was also a story that I felt I could write well and really make it sing. On top of that, technology has reached the point at which you can pull off a character like Ted.

Q: What was the germ of the original idea?

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