Rob Liefeld is a successful, but controversial artist. A penciler and writer who rose to record-breaking success in the 1990's with titles such as The New Mutants, X-Force, and Youngblood.

Rob Liefeld was different. From your perspective he sucks and that’s the end of the matter. Back then he was a breath of fresh air. And there weren’t dozens of artists just like him around (until about four years later). His work on Hawk and Dove and then New Mutants was really eye catching and unique. And he was hungry. You could see it in ...

Aug 20, 2014 · Rob Liefeld is the poster child for 90s comic art, which has been much derided ever since. People also hated what him and Jim Lee did with Heroes Reborn. He's also been accused of being a swipe artist by people such as Peter David.

Rob's personality led to a lot of controversy and some bad business dealings. The fans started turning on him. A lot of young fans started to sour on his art. He became a meme. Whether you like Liefeld's art or not, I think his art is unjustly picked on because there was plenty of worse stuff going around in the 90s.

Rob's style was much more about "cool" images. It was just something different that readers weren't seeing that much at that time and it grabbed attention. The downfall for Rob is that many better artists started applying that type of page mentality to their work and did it better. Rob's work today is better than it was back then.

Feb 5, 2024 · The actual Deadpool character was created by Fabian Nicieza Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness, Rob Liefeld had virtually nothing to do with Deadpool outside of riding the characters coattails when he became famous by overblowing his creator role when he's really just the guy who designed the costume but ripped it off anyway.

Rob Liefeld is a successful, but controversial artist. A penciler and writer who rose to record-breaking success in the 1990's with titles such as The New Mutants, X-Force, and Youngblood.

Jul 16, 2023 · I think Liefeld can draw. Tbh, the constant dissing of Liefeld is a little annoying. I have far more issues with artists whose style is totally derivative and bland than I do artists whose style, while not necessarily always my cup of tea, is identifiable and coherent. I don’t like all Liefeld art. Obviously his Cap drawing is funny.

Feb 9, 2016 · In Liefeld's case, it doesn't matter if Deadpool was derivative - he was the man who first put Deadpool into a comic book. As much as Deadpool's look is part of his success (the one thing I think Liefeld can stake a claim to), Liefeld is a tool for taking sole credit for everything that's happened since and what the character is today.

Although Liefeld shelved plans for The Executioners after Marvel threatened to both sue him and fire him from X-Force (the characters later appeared in Youngblood and their own title as "The Berzerkers"), the incident only further motivated him to pursue independent publishing.[6][9] Liefeld soon invited Amazing Spider-Man artist Erik Larsen ...