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Rob Liefeld is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher, who has been one of the Modern Age's most prominent and most controversial figures. Liefled began his as a career fill-in penciler on Superman, mostly serving when regular penciler Fred Schneider was sleeping off a drunken binge in a pool of his own vomit somewhere, which was pretty much every other week. Learning a great deal from this experience, Liefeld became a master of cheating his way through drug screenings. Rob Liefeld is a comic-book artist. His unique style (exaggerated anatomy, pouches, excessive hatching, pouches, panel-bursting splash compositions, and pouches) is widely recognized. He is also credited as a pioneer of the Nineties Anti-Hero. Many stylistic advents in superhero comics of the 1990s are inaccurately attributed to Liefeld, such as the sharp, thin-lined Crowquill inking style that he (and others) cribbed from contemporaries such as Dale Keown, Todd McFarlane, Art Adams, and Jim Lee. __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Rob Liefeld File:Rob Liefeld.jpg Gallery Real Name Rob Liefeld Employers [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Rob Liefeld File:Rob Liefield, comic convention.jpg Gallery Real Name Robert Liefeld Pseudonyms Rob Liefeld, ROB! Employers [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staf

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===Early career=== In 1988, at the age of 20, Liefeld completed his first significant published work, as penciller for [[dcdatabase:DC Comics

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"color: darkorange">Teen Titans]]'' with writer Gail Simone. Orders for his first issue increased more than 10% over the July issue, moving the book into the Diamond top 20. The second issue of the arc dropped in orders to a point almost 5% below what issues of the series before Liefeld's were solicited. Recently it was announced that Liefeld will be returning to the Heroes Reborn Universe with writer Jeph Loeb. The Project is named "Onslaught Reborn" and will be released as a 5 part monthly title starting in November of 2006. A substantial amount of the proceeds from this comic series will benefit the Sam Loeb Scholarship Fund. thumb|160px|right|The cover of [[marveldatabase:Cable/Deadpool|Cable/Deadpool #33.]] Liefeld's impact Grant Morrison and a group of artists decided to parody Liefeld's artistic styles and popularity with a [[dcdatabase:Doom Patrol "color: ForestGreen">X-Men]] comics. Also of note is that Morrison had Jill Thompson illustrate a scene in The Invisibles in a Liefeld style. Herb Trimpe, a staff artist at Marvel Comics, most notably known for his work on ''[[marveldatabase:Hulk "color: darkorange">DC Comics]], was the first comic Image published. Extreme Studios comics contained elements that became Image stereotypes: huge muscles, breasts, and guns. However, Youngblood immediately began to suffer from delayed publication dates and major changes in direction. Critical approval of these characters was scarce, and while Liefeld's wholesale sales to comic books dealers were strong, sales to consumers, especially of secondary titles from Extreme and Maximum Press, were not as spectular. In 1996, Liefeld's and Lee's studios signed with Marvel to re-envision several of the company's core series, an event called "[[marveldatabase:Heroes Reborn 1990.0 "color: darkorange">Highlander]]. thumb|160px|left|The cover of Youngblood #1 (April 1992)thumb|right|The issue that broke records worldwide, [[marveldatabase:X-Force|X-Force #1 , featuring story and art by Liefeld.]] thumb|right|The cover of [[marveldatabase:Cable|Cable #75 .]] With The New Mutants'' #98, Liefeld assumed full creative control over the series, pencilling, inking, and plotting, with Fabian Nicieza writing dialogue. He transformed the New Mutants into [[marveldatabase:X-Force "color: ForestGreen">Captain America]]. However, he failed to meet the publishing schedule and his overall output met with a less-than enthusiastic response, failing to reach the sales targets required in his agreement with Marvel, although Loeb noted in Wizard Magazine that their run on Captain America had three times the sales of issues prior to their run. Marvel terminated the agreement after six issues, and Marvel re-assigned the balance of the two series to Lee's studio. In 1996, Liefeld left Image Comics, after acrimonious disputes with his partners led Marc Silvestri and Top Cow to temporarily break away from Image. The comics press variously reported several underlying issues: the effect of Liefeld's erratically published and critically derided lines on the company's reputation, his supposed misuse of his position as Image CEO to unfairly benefit his own publishing efforts and attempts to recruit artists employed by his Image partners, a violation of their informal agreements. As further financial reverses followed, Liefeld moved all of his publishing ventures into a new company, Awesome Comics. This new enterprise, announced in April 1997 as a partnership between Liefeld and Malibu Comics founder Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, concentrated its efforts on newer properties. Recent career At Awesome, Liefeld and Loeb attempted to resurrect their unused Captain America plots for a new character, Agent America. This character was nearly identical in appearance and background to Captain America. Under legal pressure from Marvel, Liefeld scrapped Agent America and acquired the rights to Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's Fighting American, updating the design. Rob was allowed to publish the book, but legally this new character could not throw his shield, one of Captain America's trademarks. Meanwhile, Liefeld hired acclaimed comic book writer Alan Moore to revive many of his creations, which had declined in popularity. Moore wrote a few issues of Youngblood and Glory, but his most lauded work for Liefeld was on Supreme,'' which played on the character's more generic traits in a clear tribute to the Mort Weisinger-era [[dcdatabase:Superman "color: ForestGreen">The New Mutants]] and later [[marveldatabase:X-Force "color: darkorange">Doom Patrol]] special called Doom Force. This both parodied Liefeld's art style as well as the general angst of [[marveldatabase:X-Men "color: ForestGreen">The Avengers]], co-written with Jeph Loeb, and was to pencil 12 issues of [[marveldatabase:Captain America "color: darkorange">DC Comics]]' ''[[dcdatabase:Hawk and Dove "color: ForestGreen">X-Force]]. The 1991 debut issue of X-Force sold four million copies — an industry-wide record broken by fellow Image Comics founder Jim Lee's X-Men #1. Variant editions were issued to encourage sales of multiple copies to single collectors; while Lee's X-Men was published with five variant covers , X-Force relied on multiple variant trading cards polybagged with the comic itself. Leaving Marvel Comics, co-founding Image Comics Liefeld's relationship with Marvel began to break down in 1991 when he announced plans in a black-and-white advertisement in CBG to publish an original title, dubbed "The Executioners", with competitor Malibu Comics. Faced with the threat of trademark litigation from Marvel, Liefeld scrapped the title and later on re-introduced the characters in the Image title The Berserkers in 1995. Liefeld and several other popular young artists including Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino and Marc Silvestri left Marvel in 1992 to form Image Comics in a migration dubbed by fans as "the X-Odus" since many of these artists had worked on X-Men related titles for Marvel. Each co-founder formed his own studio under the Image banner, such as Liefeld's Extreme Studios. Liefeld's superhero team series Youngblood, which is loosely based on a 1991 ''[[dcdatabase:Titans "color: ForestGreen">Cable]], who instantly became a popular anti-hero. However, the prototype for Cable, tentatively named "Commander X", was initially devised by Marvel editorial staff, with Liefeld developing character designs from the assigned script. Liefeld also created the wise-cracking assassin [[marveldatabase:Deadpool 2000.0 "color: darkorange">Hawk and Dove]] limited series by Barbara and Karl Kesel, who also provided inks. Liefeld's layouts were oriented sideways in story pages featuring a chaos dimension that the characters enter, so that a reader would have to turn the comic book at a right angle in order to read them. Because this was done without editorial input, Editor Mike Carlin cut and pasted the panels into the proper order, and Kesel lightboxed them onto DC comics paper to ink them. The letters column of Hawk and Dove #5 mentions that Liefeld "showed something new to an editor who thought he’d seen everything." According to Kesel, Liefeld became late on deadlines and increasingly forgot to draw hands and feet. Liefeld moved to Marvel, where in 1989 he became the penciller for [[marveldatabase:New Mutants "color: ForestGreen">The New Mutants]]'', starting with issue #86, starring a junior team of [[marveldatabase:X-Men "color: darkorange">Deathstroke the Terminator]], and between the Externals and the immortals from ''[[dcdatabase:Highlander "color: ForestGreen">Deadpool]] and a group of immortal mutants called the Externals. Both were popular but prompted charges of plagiarism as fans debated similarities between Deadpool and DC's [[dcdatabase:Deathstroke the Terminator "color: ForestGreen">Heroes Reborn]]". Liefeld was contracted to write 12 issues of ''[[marveldatabase:Avengers "color: ForestGreen">X-Men]]. He is credited with creating a new leader for the team — the heavily-muscled, heavily-armed, glowing-eyed cyborg [[marveldatabase:Cable "color: darkorange">Team Titans]]'' series Liefeld had proposed to [[dcdatabase:DC Comics

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*Rob Liefeld's official website *Official Rob Liefeld forum *Extreme Genesis *Unofficial Index of Marvel Comics Creators *A video interview with Rob Liefeld *An interview with Liefeld by Brian Bendis References Further reading * Wizard #10, interview about Executioners and Berserkers External links * * *Rob Liefeld at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators * * *Rob Liefeld's official website *Official Rob Liefeld forum *Extreme Genesis-a Rob Liefeld fan site with many samples of his artwork *Rob Liefeld-a list of Liefeld's work while at Marvel Comics *ADLO! Association for The Defense of Liefeld and Others *An interview with Liefeld by Brian Bendis

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* Fiore, R. "Funnybook Roulette", The Comics Journal #152. * Wizard Magazine 10, June 1992 interview about Executioners and Berserkers.

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Liefled began his as a career fill-in penciler on Superman, mostly serving when regular penciler Fred Schneider was sleeping off a drunken binge in a pool of his own vomit somewhere, which was pretty much every other week. Learning a great deal from this experience, Liefeld became a master of cheating his way through drug screenings. In 1987, Liefeld did his first work for Marvel Comics. His incredible job of painting toothy Santa Clauses on the glass window of their office earned him a place on the comic X-Force. Soon, Liefeld's star in the comics industry was on the rise, leading him from his humble beginings into true kitsch and ironic icon status. __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Rob Liefeld File:Rob Liefield, comic convention.jpg Gallery Real Name Robert Liefeld Pseudonyms Rob Liefeld, ROB! Employers [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] Job Titles Writer; Penciler; Inker; Editor; Cover Artist Gender Date of Birth October 3, 1967 Place of Birth Anaheim, California, United States of America First publication Unknown Rob Liefeld is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher, who has been one of the Modern Age's most prominent and most controversial figures. __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Rob Liefeld File:Rob Liefeld.jpg Gallery Real Name Rob Liefeld Employers [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] Job Titles Writer; Penciler; Cover Artist; Publisher Gender Date of Birth October 3, 1967 Place of Birth Anaheim, California, United States of America First publication Unknown Rob Liefeld is a comic-book artist. His unique style (exaggerated anatomy, pouches, excessive hatching, pouches, panel-bursting splash compositions, and pouches) is widely recognized. He is also credited as a pioneer of the Nineties Anti-Hero. Many stylistic advents in superhero comics of the 1990s are inaccurately attributed to Liefeld, such as the sharp, thin-lined Crowquill inking style that he (and others) cribbed from contemporaries such as Dale Keown, Todd McFarlane, Art Adams, and Jim Lee. As with the confrontational splash pages, Liefeld's approach to character and costume design was shocking excess in the wake of a fairly conventional period in superhero comics. This initially impressed comic-book readers as a powerful creative energy many likened to that of Jack Kirby (some still do, infuriating others). Unfortunately, efforts to quickly develop numerous properties for Image Comics to compete for shelf-space with the established mainstream publishers resulted in a glut of Liefeld-style designs and many artists suddenly working in the Liefeld/Lee/Silvestri "Image Comics" style. It was too much. Contrasting Liefeld's own crude work to that of so many (often more polished) artists working in similar styles stripped the wunderkind of his mystique. That most Image Comics titles also eschewed using dedicated writers didn't help matters. Though there were exceptions, and writing quality varied, the rottenest apples are best remembered. Massive Hype Backlash followed, which gave Liefeld the distinction of being one of the most influential and successful comic artists, and one of the most broadly disparaged. Suffice to say that in recent years he is heavily parodied and mocked. Despite this notoriety, several of the characters he created have gone on to become long-running mainstream A-list properties (most notably Cable and Deadpool), and he continues to find (or create) regular work in the comic-book industry.

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