Ken Kristensen is a screenwriter, TV writer, and comic book author. Kristensen has served as writer-producer on multiple series including Shantaram (Apple TV+/Paramount), The Continental (Starz/Lionsgate TV), Echo (Disney+/Marvel), The Punisher (Netflix/Marvel) and Happy! (SyFy), and authored comic book series published by Image Comics, IDW Publishing, and Dark Horse Comics. His television pilots have been developed at UCP, HBO, FX, A&E, Paramount Network, and Pivot TV. Kristensen is also a member of the Writers Guild of America West, Producers Guild of America, The Animation Guild, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Career Ken Kristensen received an MFA from Columbia University Film School. While still in film school he was selected to both the Sundance and IFP labs, and worked as an associate producer under Gary Winick (Charlotte's Web) and Mark Waters (Mean Girls). After graduating, Ken won the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, and was a finalist for the Disney Feature Fellowship. He was hired by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon to write for The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist (a graphic novel spinoff of Chabon's The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay), and is slated for a fall 2015 release by Dark Horse Comics. Ken co-created the critical and commercial hit Todd, The Ugliest Kid on Earth — an Image Comics (The Walking Dead) series with his longtime creative partner, Eisner-nominated comic book artist M.K. Perker. In 2016, FX purchased the series and commissioned Kristensen to write the pilot. Several other Image Comics series are currently in development. In 2014 Ken was hired to write Indestructible, a monthly super-hero comic book series created by Jeff Kline (Transformers Prime) and published by IDW/Darby Pop Publishing. In 2015 Kristensen co-wrote and produced the short film Ronnie BoDean with director Steve Judd, starring Wes Studi. Marvel's The Punisher—a Netflix TV series created by Steve Lightfoot, starring Jon Bernthal, based on the comic book, began production in 2016 with Kristensen on board as a writer. The show debuted in 2017 to critical and commercial acclaim. Kristensen wrote on season two, which debuted in January 2019. Kristensen wrote Fairy Godbrothers, a hard cover graphic novel illustrated by M.K. Perker and published by Adaptive Books, August 2017. In 2018 Scout Comics published Kristensen's comic book series Oblivion, a post-apocalyptic comic book series, with art by Francesco Gaston. In 2017 Kristensen joined the writing staff of Happy! —a SyFy TV series, starring Christopher Meloni, based