Meet Rob Liefeld, super successful comic book artist.
The fact that he cannot draw anything to save his life has not stopped him from making millions. I hate the world.
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yeah, i also noticed robs problems with perspective at an early age, and never understood why cable was always 12 feet tall and 1 ton of muscle on the covers, but then only slightly taller than everyone else in the books.
also i dont understand why everyones eyes either glow, or give you the impression that they are asian.
Ugh. Rob Leifeld. He’s pretty much everything wrong with comic art in the 1990’s. Wild hair, eyeballs with no pupils, cross-hatching for no reason, and tiny tiny little abstract feet sticking out of steroid-hulked frames. And beyond establishing shots, composition of a page or scene is never very important. Show faces droning on in the same agape grimace.
When I took classes at the Joe Kubert school in the late 90’s, he was already a joke among other cartoonists.
Really, nothing good ever came out of Image comics. Except The Maxx, which was awesome (I haven’t read The Walking Dead, but hear that’s good).
The Maxx is my favorite comic of all time. I never did get around to finishing the series or checking out anything else Sam Keith ever did. Are there Maxx trades out? I think I have the first 27 or some-odd issues lying around somewhere. But that came out just as I was getting out of comics, so it didn’t last long (though, I guess, 27 issues would be about two years’ worth, thus invalidating the former statement. oh well.)
I guess this is what happens when you try to meld fashion sketches, gesture drawings and comic book muscles together into a melty ball of mmmbluuugggg.
Everybody loved this shit in 6th grade, Liefeld particularly. I even bought image comics back then, but mostly for the gore that wasn’t present in Marvel/DC. I wised up after about a year of shitty stories and forgettable characters. The Maxx was an exception.
I would like to thank Jeff for opening me up to a world of X-men and comic book goodness.
Actually, come to think of it, I think Transmetropolitan may have ousted The Maxx. I haven’t read The Maxx in so long, though, it’s hard to say.
I mean… seriously… what the fuck, Rob Liefeld?!?!
I used to be obsessed with The Maxx. I only owned the first, maybe, 15 issues… and I read them over and over and over. Several years ago, my ex dragged a box out of his closet containing the remaining run of the series and I devoured it. I finally got to connect all the pieces together and loved everything about it.
Never read Transmetropolitan. If you own it, I’d like to borrow it!
I only own a few and I don’t think they’re in any order. The rest I borrowed from Derrick.
I might have the CBZ file if reading on a computer screen is at all appealing to you (here we go again…)
I heard that picture was used as evidence at the Bonds steriods hearings.
1. The Maxx is indeed available in trades. I’m pretty sure I have the first four or so volumes. It is one of my favorite comics from that era – so fuckin’ weird and dark and I would have loved to see how Sandman turned out if Sam Keith had kept drawing it.
2. Rob Liefeld is a huge part of the reason why women don’t read comics. Nobody should have tits on their tits. Also, I don’t know why he tried to do away with noses. Everyone has a nose! It is okay!
3. Preacher FTW. Just in case John starts a “Best comic evar” postwar, I’m choosin’ sides.
in order to support your rob liefeld is the reason why women dont read comics comment, we would have to assume that prior to him women read comics, and having read comics prior to him, i can say without a doubt that they didnt.
if anything, post him, but in no way referring to his art style, ive seen more women read comics, because first they were objectified in comics in the late 80s and 90s, then out of that became more strong women characters.
so actually, in a way, it might be thanks to him and people like him that women started to become something in the world of spandex heroism.
I don’t know about that. I know when my older sisters were kids in the ‘70s and early ’80s, they read comics, and none of them were what you’d have called tomboys. Comic books were part of the pop culture diet, and while women weren’t the bulk of the consumers, it wasn’t unusual for a girl in middle school (remember when kids read comic books?) to be seriously hardcore into Wonder Woman.
Then the ‘90s muscles-on-muscles bullshit went crazy, and everything just got so silly and hypermasculine that the girls who read comics before then stopped, and not as many picked them up after. There are exceptions – I got in to comics back then – but it wasn’t a very inviting type of media to women during his heyday. But I see your point – maybe a backlash to that sort of blockheaded approach to art led to some of the better comic companies and writers presenting more realistic women. And also decide to give them feet.