Gotta say, if I was hiring artists today (something which I'm occasionally in a position to do), I'd have been polite, but unhesitant in passing that sample right by.
― Matt M., Thursday, 1 July 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
how is that different to any other page Liefeld has every drawn in his life?
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Distinct lack of pouches. And there's feet in *two* panels!
― Matt M., Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
With that panel sequence, Liefeld has displaced Fletcher Hanks as champion of something.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
...so you'd have hired him if only he'd included more pouches and fewer feet?
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
No, the work would have to be a lot better. And display a fundamental knowledge of lighting (the colorist shouldn't have to do everything, mang.)
― Matt M., Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
again, that's not distinguishing this from the rest of his ouevre!
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
god I have to say that it has been literally a decade since I even thought the words "rob liefield". what a terrible, terrible artist
― fresno's wet (gbx), Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
His characters have three facial expressions: tight-lipped, shit-eating grin or yawning.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yawning generally representing angry or just been shot in the head.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
tbf, Liefeld himself seems to only have those three expressions.
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://worldofwardcrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/98692-14213-rob-liefeld_large-1.jpg
http://thenoisingmachine.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/robliefeld.jpg
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/thumb/a/ab/Rob_Liefield,_comic_convention.jpg/200px-Rob_Liefield,_comic_convention.jpg
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/images/011407rob/rob1.jpg
http://torvald.gjovaag.com/2009ECCC/TrollECCC2009_RobLiefeld.jpg
http://www.sparehed.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ecr06.jpg
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
the original douchey mccool
― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 July 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I only saw a picture of Liefeld years after I first read his comics - it was pretty funny to look at him and suddenly realize why he draws all his characters with a particular type of face.
― Tuomas, Friday, 2 July 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.the-isb.com/images/CourageRob02.jpg
― oh shit a ◕‿‿◕ (sic), Friday, 2 July 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it was pretty funny to look at him and suddenly realize why he draws all his characters with a particular type of face.
i think that's quite common tbh - for artists to draw people who skew towards their own features...
― Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom (stevie), Friday, 2 July 2010 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Even some of the current popular artists, you pretty much can't tell about one character from another. David Finch I guess is pretty popular, but pretty much almost every character on this cover looks like the same person in the face.
http://reilly2040.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/brightest_day0.jpg
― earlnash, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
hawkman is rocking a very liefeld-y expression!
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Green chick rocking very Liefeld-y boobs.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
It is kind kind of like Liefield with Art Adams sense of crazy detail, in a way.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 July 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I can see Adams in the mix.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 3 July 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
otm about one facial expression anyway
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 3 July 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Superheroes should never smile. Ever.
― Matt M., Saturday, 3 July 2010 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i have actually been reading/buying brightest day (i know i know) and i have no idea who that is to aquaman's left.
― adam, Saturday, 3 July 2010 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
It looks like Aquaman in black with a gun, but my best guess is that supposed to be Nemesis.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 July 2010 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Maxwell Lord?
― Slumpman, Saturday, 3 July 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah max lord has been rocking the underarm holster and pistols look of late but not with bleached hair (giffen justice league:generation lost jli reunion thing is pretty good btw).
finch sucks but he is not capable of liefeld hilarity.
― adam, Saturday, 3 July 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
[adding post to clear weird bookmark weirdness]
― the crucible of easily debunked e-mail fwds (stevie), Friday, 23 July 2010 07:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Charles Brownstein:
I got to watch Rob Liefeld give a presentation on character design, where he was incredibly charming, and won everyone over by demonstrating the fundamentals of Deadpool’s costume and saying “If I get to be 90 years old and I’m remembered as that guy who couldn’t draw hands or feet, but could design a character that lasts, that’s more than enough for me.”
― ␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆ you oughtta know by now (sic), Thursday, 5 August 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.hypebeast.com/image/2009/07/meanwhile-at-the-hall-of-justice-comic-exhibition-02.jpg
― ❽ (M.V.), Friday, 27 August 2010 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://robliefeldcreations.com/?p=2370
― high speed p-diddy-esque shrimping vessel (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 October 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://robliefeldcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/photo3.jpghttp://robliefeldcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/photo3.jpghttp://robliefeldcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/photo3.jpg
― high speed p-diddy-esque shrimping vessel (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 October 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
to be clear: he made that himself
Haha, no way.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 2 October 2010 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://robliefeldcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/photo37copy.jpg
― high speed p-diddy-esque shrimping vessel (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 October 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm surprised to say that I'm actually starting to like this guy
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, 4 October 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
via comicsalliance:http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/extremejustice.jpg
― I'd rather climb into the saddle of my Ford Mustang and sink spurs (stevie), Sunday, 6 March 2011 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
doh.http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/extremejustice.jpg
In the interest of posterity, Finch's Brightest Day cover above features 14 characters, 6 feet.
― make the Pagan Dad a Pagan Father. (Dr. Superman), Sunday, 6 March 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.rickworley.com/2012/02/26/some-more-robservations-about-rob-liefeld/
― drop these whiners on a island (Surviver style) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
uh there is plenty of reason to call Liefeld a douche beyond not liking some past associations you have with his art, no matter how charming he was to you
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
And those reasons are?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 1 March 2012 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
abuse of the market
inciting children to physical riot
stealing art from Rick Veitch
dishonest business dealings
failing to pay royalties
& al
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 1 March 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
I actually made a long post about why I considered him a douche, and in my blog about meeting him, I said I didn't take it back. http://www.rickworley.com/2012/02/17/rob-liefeld-douchebags-of-comics/ He's still getting a trading card in my Douchebags of Comics series. What I did say was that he gets a lot of credit from me for how he handled somebody saying something like that about him, and I stand by that, too.
― Rick Worley, Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
????
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
Image convention panels circa 1993, see TCJ reports of the time
(I will withdraw this if it turns out it was only Lee and Silvestri)
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Hi Rick, welcome to I Love Comics!
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
yep, howdywould like to hear more about how rob stole art from rick veitch
― drop these whiners on a island (Surviver style) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
looks like it's alluded to here? http://www.rickveitch.com/2008/05/07/new-jack-city/
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
ah, i thought you meant he SWIPED the art and that didn't make sense as i can't think of two styles more opposedwell i can, but you get my meaning
― drop these whiners on a island (Surviver style) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link