Rob Liefeld
Rob Liefeld (born October 3, 1967 in Anaheim , California , United States ) is an American comic book author, comic book illustrator and screenwriter. He had his breakthrough at Marvel Comics in the early 1990s with the X-Men spin-off series X-Force . He is co-founder of the comic book publisher Image Comics and wrote episodes for the comic book series Spawn .
Career
Liefeld became a draftsman for the DC Comics series Hawk and Dove in 1988 . After establishing himself there, he took over the Marvel Comics series The New Mutants in 1989 . After he had full creative control assured there, he reinterpreted the series. The series was later renamed X-Force . The first issue, published during the bubble in the comic book industry , sold 4 million copies. The two most famous characters were the gun-staring Cyborg Cable and the genetically modified gladiator Shatterstar . Their violence as well as their designs were later parodied in the miniseries Kingdom Come . He also created the Marvel character Deadpool .
In 1991 he decided to leave Marvel Comics. He founded Image Comics with other Marvel artists such as Jim Lee , Todd McFarlane , Erik Larsen , Mark Silvestri and others . Liefeld wrote the Youngblood series , a pastiche by the Teen Titans . 1997 Liefeld left Image Comics and founded Awesome Comics . But due to various copyright disputes, Liefeld could hardly publish comics, got into financial problems and returned to Marvel Comics in 2000. In 2004 he founded Arcade Comics , where he reissued Youngblood . In 2007 he returned to Image.
style
Liefeld describes himself as an artist whose sense of aesthetics is strongly inspired by mass media and pop culture ( MTV and others). His drawing and writing style is considered to be equivalent to the effect-laden action films by Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer ("Exciting in a Michael Bay-Jerry Bruckheimer way"), although his images have been criticized for their limited facial expressions and the absence of feet ("Limited facial expressions and his inability sometimes to draw feet ").
Private
Liefeld is married.
Web links
- Rob Liefeld in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Rob Liefeld
Individual evidence
- ↑ Original quote: "I think my head was really into MTV at the time. I think I represented the wave of new artists who had grown up on 24-hour videos and how to be in on pop culture 24 hours a day. "
- ^ To the Extreme: A conversation with Rob Liefeld
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liefeld, Rob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic book author and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd October 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Anaheim , California , USA |