List of The Walking Dead (comics) characters


The following is a list of characters from The Walking Dead comic book series, created by Robert Kirkman. Plot structure and characterization between the comic and television series can be similar, derivative, or in many cases almost entirely unrelated.

Character timelines

Atlanta arc (volumes 1–2)

The first two volumes of The Walking Dead focus on Rick Grimes, who journeys from Grant County, Kentucky to find his family, as well as survivors of a camp in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Greene Family Farm on its outskirts. They were adapted into the first and second seasons of The Walking Dead.

Prison arc (volumes 3–8)

Volumes three to eight of The Walking Dead centre around the survivors living in the Meriwether County Correctional Facility, an abandoned prison, amid tensions with Woodbury, a neighbouring community run by The Governor. They were adapted into seasons three and four of The Walking Dead.

Road to Washington arc (volumes 9–11)

Volumes nine to eleven of The Walking Dead depict the survivors on the road to Washington, and their encounters with the Marauders and the cannibalistic Hunters. They were adapted into seasons four and five of The Walking Dead.

Alexandria arc (volumes 12–15)

Volumes twelve to fifteen of The Walking Dead depict the survivors adjusting to life living in the Alexandria Safe-Zone, Virginia, six miles south from Washington. They were adapted into seasons five and six of The Walking Dead.

Negan arc (volumes 16–21)

Volumes sixteen to twenty-one of The Walking Dead centre around the Alexandria survivors building alliances with neighbouring communities Hilltop Colony and the Kingdom, to liberate themselves from Negan and the Saviours at the Sanctuary. They were adapted into seasons six, seven and eight of The Walking Dead.

Whisperers arc (volumes 22–29)

Volumes twenty-two to twenty-nine of The Walking Dead centre around the survivors attempting to build and maintain their civilised communities, as they wage war with a new threat, the Whisperers. They were adapted into seasons nine and ten of The Walking Dead.

The Commonwealth arc (volumes 30–32)

Volumes thirty to thirty-two of The Walking Dead centre around the survivors adjusting to life under the Commonwealth in Ohio. They were adapted into season eleven of The Walking Dead.

Grimes family

Rick Grimes

Rick is the group's de facto leader. He is Lori's husband and Carl's father. Before the zombie apocalypse, Rick is a sheriff's deputy in the small town of Cynthiana, Kentucky. While in a shootout against an escaped convict with his partner and best friend, Shane Walsh, Rick is wounded and subsequently awakens from a coma some time later. After finding his family in Atlanta camp, Rick quickly assumes the role of the leader of the survivor community. As the story progresses, Rick adopts a more dark and assertive nature. He lost his wife and daughter during the fall of the prison. Lori's death leaves Rick an emotional wreck. Rick suffers frightening hallucinations of her, and for a while seems to hear conversations with her on an old phone. For the heavy loss of lives that have occurred, Rick constantly blames himself. At the same time, he never backs away from a difficult decision affecting his community. Rick is very protective of Carl, while at the same time he feels detached from Carl's now bleak outlook of the world. Eventually Rick begins a romantic relationship with Andrea in Alexandria. Rick is the leader of the Alexandria survivors community. As the war with Negan escalates, Negan forces Dwight to shoot Rick with a bolt, but as Rick does not turn, Dwight is proven a trustworthy ally and not a surreptitious foe. He takes Negan captive and ends the war. Two years later, he is still leading the Safe-Zone and dating Andrea. After The Whisperers attack the Safe-Zone during the fair, Rick's leadership is questioned. To divert this, Rick manages to move the survivors anger towards The Whisperers through propaganda and army campaigns. Rick begins to trust Negan after the latter brings Alpha's head to him. Rick then kills Sherry after the Savior's betray his alliance, and then he learns that Andrea was bitten and is dying, causing him great grief. Rick is killed after Sebastian Milton shoots him multiple times and leaves him for dead. Carl later finds his father's reanimated body and puts him down.
Lori is Rick's wife and Carl and Judith Grimes' mother. During the Governor's second attack on the prison, she is shot by Lilly while holding Judith, whom she crushes after falling.
  • Series Lifespan: #2–48

    Carl Grimes

Carl is the son of Rick and Lori as well as Judith's elder brother. Carl begins as a normal and innocent child, but as the events of the new world order force him to grow up, he becomes colder and competently makes sometimes tough decisions for the good of his group of friends. When the group arrives at the prison, Carl starts dating Carol's daughter Sophia. However, their relationship ends as they part ways during the conflict with Negan. During an invasion by walkers at the Alexandria Safe-Zone, he is accidentally shot in the eye and loses it. As a teenager, Carl resides at the Hilltop Colony as a blacksmith apprentice but still remains close friends with Sophia, while contacting and later forming a sexual relationship with Whisperer, Lydia. He is currently back at Alexandria, with the rest of the survivors of the walker attack on the Hilltop. Since his father's death, Carl is the last remaining member of the Grimes family.
  • Series Lifespan: #2–193

    Judith Grimes

Judith is the newborn daughter of Lori Grimes and younger sister to Carl. Though Rick is acknowledged as her father, it is strongly implied that Shane is her biological father. During the Governor's second attack on the prison, Lori is shot by Lilly while holding Judith, and Lori falls, crushing Judith.
  • Series Lifespan: #39–48

    Andrea/Andrea Grimes

Andrea was one of the comic's longest-living survivors, alongside Rick, Carl, Maggie and Sophia Peletier. Andrea worked as a clerk for a law firm before the zombie apocalypse, a job which she says she hated. She is shown to be one of the greatest rifle shooters in the Walking Dead universe, known for sniping at foes of the group whether they are human or zombies. After having a relationship with Dale in the prison, she is later in a relationship with Rick at the Alexandria Safe-Zone after Dale's death. She acts as a motherly figure to Carl and plays an important role in running the Safe-Zone, often seen as a Vice President figure. Andrea was bitten by a walker whilst saving Eugene from the herd that attacked Alexandria. She dies in her room with Rick, and various members of Alexandria and the Hilltop say goodbye to her before she dies.
  • Series Lifespan: #2–167

    Andrea Grimes

Andrea is the daughter of Carl and Sophia, who rekindle their relationship and eventually get married. Sophia later gives birth to a baby girl, whom they name after Carl's stepmother Andrea Grimes.
  • Series Lifespan: #193

    Jones family

Duane Jones

Duane Jones was a young boy hiding out with his father, Morgan, in various houses in Rick's neighborhood, attempting to ride out the zombie apocalypse. After meeting Rick and being provided with weapons from the police station, Morgan and Duane part ways with Rick, potentially to meet again some day. Much later, at Christmas, Morgan and Duane are seen alive and well, living in a cabin on a snowy mountain. Later still, Rick encounters the two, but while Morgan is alive, Duane has turned. Morgan now joins Rick, but leaves his reanimated son to roam freely within the house.
  • Series Lifespan: #1–59

    Morgan Jones

Morgan was the devoted father of Duane Jones struggling to get over the recent death of his wife. He and his son seek refuge in Rick's hometown after the outbreak occurs. He is the first living person Rick encounters after waking up. He informs Rick of the outbreak and what has been happening within the world the past couple months. Sometime within the following weeks/months, Duane falls prey to the walkers and gets turned. Morgan, unable to cope with the death of his son, resorts to locking Duane in the house with chains. Later Rick takes him in as one of his community. He develops an attraction and consequently a complicated relationship with Michonne. While helping fight off zombies with Michonne, Rick, and the others, he is caught off guard and bitten on the arm by a walker. Michonne chops off Morgan's arm, and from there he is left bedridden. He is shortly thereafter killed by Michonne before he has the chance to re-animate.
  • Series Lifespan: #1–83

    Atlanta survivor camp

Allen

Allen was the big-bearded husband of Donna and father of twins Billy and Ben. Before the dead rose, Allen was a shoe salesman gradually falling into debt. After the dead rose, Allen and his family joined the group of survivors encamped on the outer limits of Atlanta. Upon leaving, Allen suffered terribly when Donna was killed by zombies, sending him into a downward emotional spiral that he never truly recovers from. He confides in Rick and the two became close friends. Andrea tried to offer him comfort, due to her similar loss of her sister, but, Allen rejected her sympathy and maintained a bitter relationship with her. With time, he gradually gained a sense of acceptance, but this new-found peace was short-lived; Allen was bitten on the foot by a zombie, while helping the others clear out the remaining areas of the prison the group was staying in. In an effort to contain the infection, Rick made a violent and botched attempt at amputation. After a long struggle for survival against blood loss, and serious infections setting in, Allen died. After being shot in the head by Rick before he could reanimate, his body was buried outside the prison.
  • Series Lifespan: #3–23