Robert Kirkman has hired a former video game executive as a managing director of his Skybound Entertainment imprint.

VentureBeat reports that Jon Goldman, previously chairman and CEO of Foundation 9 Entertainment, will focus on emerging and new business, overseeing "the strategic direction for the company and [operating] businesses around games and live events."

“Our collective goal is to build major enterprises surrounding the remarkable worlds that Robert creates within his comics all while remaining true to fans,” Goldman is quoted as saying.

The news comes just a week after Skybound announced that its "Walking Dead Escape" obstacle course, already popular at Comic-Con International and New York Comic Con, will launch a cross-country tour in April. The bestselling Walking Dead comic series has, of course, already spawned a hit television drama (with a spinoff in development), video games and numerous collectibles.

Launched in 2010, Skybound is an Image Comics imprint that serves as home to Kirkman's titles, like The Walking Dead, Invincible, Thief of Thieves and the upcoming Outcast, as well as books from other creators -- among them, Witch Doctor, Manifest Destiny and Dead Body Road.