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

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i grew up on that stuff unfortunately. in fact for the first few years i was into comics (8-10 years old) i was a diehard Image kid only

Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link

so many of those allegedly superbad drawings a look at and go 'eh, its comics'

thomp, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link

I will say Liefeld's idea of breasts is one of the most hilarious things

Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link

Also his notion that the head of the penis is located at the end of the arm.

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

EZ, really, too kind to Todd? I said he was a sellout and a hack. Liefeld has the crown as the worst of the Image artists, but I did say that Todd's women look freakish.

Rick Worley, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

I think I was letting your kind thoughts towards him as a kid color over the vitriol. Re-reading, there's plenty of "Todd is a shit human" stuff in there. Didn't see a mention of the Miracleman douche behavior though.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link

Heh, well if I mentioned every single douche thing some of these people have done, the blogs would be too long for anybody to read. I'm mostly trying to mention the things that I have personal recollections of.

Rick Worley, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link

Victory Chainsaw- Any time Rob draws lady parts it's hilarious. I'm still trying to figure out why that woman is wearing underwear in the shower. Also trying to figure out why she had loaves of French bread surgically implanted in her shoulders.

The thing about Rob is, you've gotta give him points for entertainment value. Sometimes I'll stare at Rob Liefeld pages much longer than pages by people who can actually draw, because my brain is trying to figure out what it is I'm looking at and why it exists. To compare Rob to somebody else I'm doing a Douchebags of Comics card of, I think Rob's drawings of women are much funnier than any joke Scott Adams ever wrote in Dilbert.

Rick Worley, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link

Didn't Todd pay millions for that Mark McGwire home run baseball at his douchey peak? Yeah, far too much assholery for you to document it all.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

I think he paid one million for it, and pretty much did it for the publicity because he knew there would be headlines about this guy paying a million dollars for a baseball, at least that's how I remember seeing it.

Rick Worley, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link

Wiki says he paid $3 million for it! Egad.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

Yikes. Yeah, total doucheitude. You'd think if he has $3 million for baseballs he wouldn't have to argue with Neil Gaiman about royalties.

Rick Worley, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

He had to argue about royalties because he spent all his money on a baseball!

mh, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link

I'm still a bit curious about Leifeld (& Lee/Silvestri...?) inciting kids to riot?

robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 24 June 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link

hurling variant covers into crowds at SDCC iirc

the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Sunday, 24 June 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link

Every time this thread gets revived I end up drawing a bunch of ridiculous looking Liefield-style ladies and it's terrible fun.

chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Sunday, 24 June 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link

lol. post some!

Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 24 June 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link

Yes!

carl agatha, Sunday, 24 June 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link

I thought MacFarlane was the Image creator with the baseball purchase habit?

Matt M., Sunday, 24 June 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link

lol, awesome. though you obviously have a better anatomical foundation than RL

Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 24 June 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link

ha barely!

chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Sunday, 24 June 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link

When visualizing the way he draws breasts think of two grapefruits in a plastic shopping bag

mh, Sunday, 24 June 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link

Oh mercy.

carl agatha, Sunday, 24 June 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link

lol

Chris S, Sunday, 24 June 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link

Lady Mazonga's hands = hilarious!

robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 24 June 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link

Abbott does better feet.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 24 June 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link

Abbott does better feet.

EZ Snappin, Sunday, 24 June 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link

lol, those are EXCELLENT

Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 June 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link

i'm pretty sure these would sell better than liefeld right now. (hint hint!)

Philip Nunez, Monday, 25 June 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link

to whom??

chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Monday, 25 June 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link

to Philip, obv

Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Monday, 25 June 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link

A+ is for Abbbottt

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Monday, 25 June 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link

does no one but me want to see "lady mazonga and pals: a tribute to rob liefeld" outsell actual rob liefeld titles?

Philip Nunez, Monday, 25 June 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

I think we would all like to see that

Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Monday, 25 June 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

how much did Rub The Blood sell? (how much would Strong Female Characters sell if Beaton was printing it?)

the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Monday, 25 June 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link

i would totally buy string female characters

Just saying. (stevie), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 06:39 (twelve years ago) link

Make a zip, I will upload. Lady Mazonga and Pals: a Tribute to Rob Liefeld (2012)(abbbotttPre55)(c2c)(2nd Printing)(Variant)(ZachTdog-DCP-Minutemen).cbz No money for you, but my humiliation would be sweet.

warren harding (Zachary Taylor), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 06:53 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

http://roboconnery.tumblr.com/post/28663214472

ms. cookie (carl agatha), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link

that is awesome.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link

lady mazongas was in aeon flux iirc

the late great, Saturday, 18 August 2012 11:03 (twelve years ago) link

nu-52 thread

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Monday, 27 August 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

just sent this email to a friend of mine, titled "weird dream"

'You and I walked down some stairs and ran into Rob Liefeld. He assumed you wanted his advice, so he was all like "yeah let's talk at such and such a time" and then he went behind a door. I ask you "how come he's not at DC any more?" and you were like "if you're not really fluid with ink [good with ink] then you shouldn't draw fractal shapes."'

hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link

I never have public figures show up in my dreams. Why did it have to be Liefeld.

hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

Did you at any point look down at his feet? Did the dream blur or snap back up at that point?

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 21 September 2012 09:39 (twelve years ago) link

lol

the late great, Friday, 21 September 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

four months pass...

“Rob Liefeld is to today,” says Rob Liefeld, “as Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan are to my kids.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/doers/2013/01/rob_liefeld_s_prophet_and_glory_revamped.single.html

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link

The CBR interview Weigel links to is a hoot.

RE: PROPHET - "There are some massive spoilers and twists that I can't reveal, but these guys have attacked this series and it's easily my favorite of the bunch!"

A paragraph later, RE: GLORY - "'Glory' is going to wow people. 'Glory' is easily my favorite of this new launch!"

Magic Miike (R Baez), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link

Liefeld!

Prophet is pretty cool, though

mh, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link


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