40 Facts About Rob Liefeld

Robert Liefeld is an American comic book creator.

Rob Liefeld has been called one of the most controversial figures in the comic industry for his drawing skills, business practices, and controversial comments.

Rob Liefeld was born October 3,1967, the younger child of a Baptist minister and a part-time secretary.

Rob Liefeld cites Perez, along with John Byrne and Frank Miller, as major influences.

Rob Liefeld has noted how the influence of Arthur Adams is visible in his art.

Rob Liefeld is generally credited for turning this lowest-selling title of the X-Men franchise into a financial success, which underlined the increased popularity and clout that his stint on the title had earned him.

Rob Liefeld was interviewed by Stan Lee in the second episode of the 1991 documentary series The Comic Book Greats, in which he discussed how he broke into the industry, demonstrated his drawing technique, and talked about his Levi's commercial.

Rob Liefeld appeared on an episode of The Dennis Miller Show to promote the book.

Liefeld explained that production problems, as well as sub-par scripting by his friend and collaborator Hank Kanalz, whose employment Liefeld later terminated, resulted in work that was lower in quality than that which Liefeld produced when Fabian Nicieza scripted his plots on X-Force, and that reprints of those four issues would be re-scripted.

Rob Liefeld's resignation came only minutes before the second meeting that would have forced him out.

Rob Liefeld moved all his publishing ventures into a new company, Awesome Comics.

The still-living Simon and Kirby's widow agreed to a figure Rob Liefeld felt was too high, and he created a new similar character, Agent America.

Marvel Comics then sued Rob Liefeld, who was allowed to use the character but not have him throw his shield weapon, a distinctive trait of Captain America.

Rob Liefeld hired comic book writer Alan Moore to revive many of Rob Liefeld's creations.

Moore wrote a few issues of Youngblood and Glory, but his most lauded work for Rob Liefeld was on Supreme, for which Moore won the 1997 Eisner Award for Best Writer.

In that same year, Rob Liefeld formed Arcade Comics and announced plans to revive Youngblood.

Rob Liefeld and writer Jeph Loeb returned to the Heroes Reborn Universe with Onslaught Reborn, a five-issue limited series that premiered in November 2006.

Rob Liefeld became the regular artist on Deadpool Corps, providing the interior art for the first nine issues.

In March 2011, Liefeld was announced as the artist on The Infinite, a mini-series written by Robert Kirkman.

Rob Liefeld referred to Scott Clark's artwork on Grifter as "crap".

Rob Liefeld indicated that he would return to focusing on his creator-owned properties at Image, including Bloodstrike, Brigade, as well as other projects yet to be specified.

Rob Liefeld published revivals of Youngblood with writer John McLaughlin with artist Jon Malin and Supreme by Erik Larsen in 2012.

The comment was met with criticism by industry professionals who pointed to the esteemed creators who had worked on the character that Rob Liefeld was apparently calling "D-list" creators.

Rob Liefeld stated that his point was that "heavy contract players" at Marvel such as Leinil Francis Yu, Steve McNiven, Arthur Adams, and Olivier Coipel did not produce regular monthly books featuring the character.

Rob Liefeld made a cameo appearance in the 2016 film based on his most famous creation, Deadpool, which was released in February 2016.

In 2017, it was reported by Deadline that Rob Liefeld was working with Akiva Goldsman and Graham King on a seven-figure movie deal for his Extreme Universe.

Around that same time, Liefeld began a podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Podbean called Robservations, in which he talks about different topics pertaining to the comics industry.

Rob Liefeld's name has become something of a lightning rod in the industry.

Rob Liefeld is a young boy almost, I would expect, whose culture is bubble gum wrappers, Saturday morning cartoons, Marvel Comics; that's his culture.

Every character Rob Liefeld drew had seven knives and six guns and shoulder pads and pouches and belts and straps and ammunition.

Rob Liefeld has stated that such criticism has not bothered him, in part because, at the height of his popularity, he had things outside of his work to focus on, such as the death of his father from cancer in 1999.

At the beginning of Rob Liefeld's run on the New Mutants, the heavily muscled, heavily armed cyborg character Cable was created for the team, and became a popular antihero, although there is dispute over Cable's origin, with conflicting accounts of credit given to Rob Liefeld, Bob Harras, and Louise Simonson for aspects of the character's concept and origin.

Rob Liefeld was credited as the sole creator of Youngblood, when documentation suggests that Liefeld's longtime friend and collaborator Hank Kanalz co-developed that team with him.

Rob Liefeld has contested sharing creator credit with writer Fabian Nicieza for the character Deadpool.

Rob Liefeld has been accused of swiping, or copying, art from other artists.

Rob Liefeld responded to this accusation by stating that in these instances, which he said were limited to ten, he was offering tribute to the artists of the original pieces in question, rather than plagiarizing, and compared this to the work of filmmaker Brian De Palma, who explicitly used the techniques of Alfred Hitchcock.

Peter David responded to this rationale by stating that DePalma himself was criticized harshly by film critics for employing Hitchcock's techniques, and that Rob Liefeld, who has identified himself as a "stickler" for credit, did not credit artists whose work he copied, instances of which exceeded the ten upon which Rob Liefeld insisted.

Rob Liefeld has gained a reputation for producing late books, primarily his creator-owned ones, though somewhat less so when doing work-for-hire.

Rob Liefeld has attributed this to the greater incentive a freelancer feels when doing work-for-hire assignments for a company, as opposed to working on one's self-owned work.

Rob Liefeld has been criticized for not returning to Rick Veitch the original artwork that Veitch had produced for Rob Liefeld's Awesome Comics series, Supreme.