in retrospect, how did Rob Liefeld ever manage to hold down a artist job in the comics industry?

Rob of Finland!

oh crap, coffee all over the keyboard again. Damn you, Liefeld!

This is exactly it, combined with the fact that Rob Liefeld has the taste and enthusiasm of an eight year old boy. He can totally tap into a certain mentality and aesthetic like few other people. Unfortunately, this aesthetic is pretty laughable, but it's definitely the reason why he had so much early success.

I just read that Wikipedia entry - it actually doesn't seem all that imbalanced to me.

I remember being really disappointed when the regular series came out and he wasn't the penciller! Admittedly, that was probably the last time I was disappointed not to be looking at Liefeld's art, but there really WAS a time when the McFarlane/Larsen/Liefeld style really seemed like a neat new thing (maybe it helped if you were 12 years old then). Larsen on Doom Patrol, McFarlane on Hulk and Amazing Spider-Man-- all good (the shiteness of "Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane" (props to Mark Martin) probably put an end to this though, even before the Image era came along).

Via Douglas:
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html

just giggling my ass off at work reading that.

I saw that during the blackout and meant to post it when we came back up. I'm glad you guys got to see it.

"He wears a baseball cap backwards, and when he turns it around it's still backwards."

"Your characters aren't shitting out ladders when they jump."

I can't figure whether liefeld, miller or mcfarlane is the main reason why I don't post here except to talk about old graphic novel reprints, and looking at that, I'm pretty sure the answer is liefeld.

Jesus.

I haven't read them in years, but I remember thinking that Todd McFarlene's run of Spider-man and especially the Hulk with Peter David that were pretty good. McFarlene was really good at drawing fight scenes and action. There was always a bunch of detail of glass and rock flying all over the place.

I completely missed the whole Image comics boom/bust from the 90s. At least from the couple episodes I saw, I thought that Spawn cartoon HBO did was OK. I never read the comic.

I've got the Hulk run on a DVD, so I may have to revisit those issues. I thought the Mr. Fixit issues were pretty cool way to bring back the gray Hulk. Peter David was one of the better mainstream comic writers of the late 80s.

At least from what I have read of McFarlene, he seems like a douche, so i can understand the blow back, but I remember liking those Marvel issues he did.

#24 won't load for me. :(

McFarlane did have a great run on AS-M but jesus, Image was so horrible. Dark times.

SPAWN #11, written by Frank Miller, is the worst comic I've ever read. I still remember vividly how awful and repellent it was.

Via Douglas:
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/assets/product/0618709274.gif

so

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/08/the-real-crime-was-the-hat/

Thanx 4 new screenname.

I agree with Cameron Stewart that this was a pretty juvenile prank. Since people were willing to buy shitloads of his crappy comics in the 1990s, is it really his fault that he saw no reason to improve his craft?

Dude's a tool, I mean, everything in the tone of that blog post certifies him as such. I don't think artists should have to "apologize" for messing up characters (except perhaps to their creators?), either, whole thing's pretty retarded. Plus, you know, TAKING A STAND against Rob Liefeld in 2009.

I don't agree with your argument tho Tuomas, of course the guy should have kept working at his craft! He should have recognized the adulation of the public for the shallow thing it is and followed his muse to ever more challenging territories, allowing the talent we saw on X-Force and Youngblood to bloom to its full potential ;)

The thing is, though... that it did bloom to its full potential.

btw:

http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/uploads//2009/07/IMG_6988.jpg

^^^^ awesome

hahahahaha

For an incredibly hatable guy he is extremely likable!

he has the pleasant joyful demeanor of new money! not like those sour new england types.

(am looking for a picture of gary brodsky frowning for contrast)

of course the guy should have kept working at his craft!

any minute now, he's going to break out those life drawings that he told Hart Fisher would blow Fisher's mind. that was only, what, eleven years ago?

ha, i know y'all hipsters out there used to watching me.... but don't watch me... watch my feet

I'm Drawing As Fast As I Can

(The Rob Liefeld Story)

POST FEET SWEATIE

the hipsters have lots of pouches these days, so we're really in a Liefeld or post-Liefeld world

i haven't seen any giant ponytails emerging straight out of the top of otherwise shaved heads, but we are moving back to bushwick in a few weeks so i will keep y'all posted

kudos doc casino on the footwork reference

Why has he never just created a character like The Pouch, with every inch of human anatomy obscured by countless pouches? Play to your strengths, Rob!

why must you constantly underestimate this man

I love that the pouch gun is firing... a pouch

that literally is the best Liefeld drawing I've ever seen

Agreed - tho the intersection of gun & left hand still isn't quite right.

that literally is the best Liefeld drawing I've ever seen

OMG, I...I honestly thought I was just being a wisenheimer.

It's simultaneously his best and most self-aware drawing ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLFNU_-K54M
Only watched bits of it but was amused by Liefeld saying "you can have a sword and a gun!" reminding me of an image Sic posted above. He does an impression of Alan Moore talking about Pulp Fiction and a bit about Stephen Platt hating him now.

Liefeld memoir Robservations forthcoming. Or, y'know, at least like the first two chapters and then maybe a third chapter seven years from now.

God help me but I think I need to read this POS.

a+++++++++ title, quite possibly there are not enough plus signs in all of math to convey how stupid/roflmao/stupid that title is. like he's been jealously guarding this brilliant little nugget since elementary school and he's finally ready to share it with the world. bless that fucking dork.

ROBSERVATIONS

Lock human culture

I've Got My Own Autobiography To Do

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something very Liefeld-esque about Elon's physique here

100%, amazing call

Looks like the pool kids sucking in their guts when Lacey walks by in Caddyshack.

i hesitate to post it but there is actually another such life-imitates-liefeld photo with moosk in swim jorts.