favourite Image Comics founder

I think I voted for Liefeld mostly because I haven't had particularly strong feelings about any of these dudes since I became old enough to drive and so why not vote for the golden retriever in a human body. For a brief window of time, though, I was way into these guys and they helped usher me into the larger world of comicsdom so I have to give props.

I'm so happy Erik won this poll.

Something about him I always thought was funny is when Wizard was asking creators which was the lamest dorkiest character they've ever worked on. Most creators chosen forgotten characters and Larsen chose The Punisher.

in retrospect, the idea of these dudes being talented entrepreneurs doing their own thing, and all the misconceptions and press angles on what they were doing, feels a lot like the later dot com boom that happened at the other end of the 90s

"the writing is bad, but it can come later!"
"missing deadlines is bad, but they'll make it work"
"self-publishing is a strong creator's rights move"

Probably discussed this before but I wonder why more people didn't jump onboard or try something out at Image in the early days? They often got big superhero artists to do pinups and things like that but there really wasn't many big names beyond the founders.

because that wasn't an option in the early days, is the most obvious guess and also the factual answer

can you imagine the number of ill-conceived pitches they received in the mail from teens?

I mean, half were probably better than Liefeld's ideas, but that's a given