in retrospect, how did Rob Liefeld ever manage to hold down a artist job in the comics industry?

Dude's a tool, I mean, everything in the tone of that blog post certifies him as such. I don't think artists should have to "apologize" for messing up characters (except perhaps to their creators?), either, whole thing's pretty retarded. Plus, you know, TAKING A STAND against Rob Liefeld in 2009.

I don't agree with your argument tho Tuomas, of course the guy should have kept working at his craft! He should have recognized the adulation of the public for the shallow thing it is and followed his muse to ever more challenging territories, allowing the talent we saw on X-Force and Youngblood to bloom to its full potential ;)

The thing is, though... that it did bloom to its full potential.

btw:

http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/uploads//2009/07/IMG_6988.jpg

^^^^ awesome

hahahahaha

For an incredibly hatable guy he is extremely likable!

he has the pleasant joyful demeanor of new money! not like those sour new england types.

(am looking for a picture of gary brodsky frowning for contrast)

of course the guy should have kept working at his craft!

any minute now, he's going to break out those life drawings that he told Hart Fisher would blow Fisher's mind. that was only, what, eleven years ago?

If Rob Liefeld revealed himself to actually be a highly-competent draftsman who had been churning out wretched garbage for years simply for a larf, I think I would love Rob Liefeld to the max.

any minute now, he's going to break out those life drawings that he told Hart Fisher would blow Fisher's mind. that was only, what, eleven years ago?

It'll be so weird when he finally realeases those and it turns out they're all oil paintings of the Keyboard Cat.

"If Rob Liefeld revealed himself to actually be a highly-competent draftsman"

this would be a great prank by the robster for sure, but also justifies all sorts of abuse, including throwing marvel instructional books at him. anything mean-spirited about liefeld-bashing evaporates if it turns out he wasn't earnestly trying to the best of his ability.

Not Liefeld, but crikey:

http://i.newsarama.com/images/12_astonishing_x_men__xenogenesis_1_02.jpg

man you give a guy one issue of KING magazine and the next thing you know the white queen has a MASSIVE ASS

that's a swipe from the two gargantuassed chicks on the beach that made the rounds some years ago and I claim my five dollars

has to be on confounded's culture corner thread

Not Liefeld, but

Can we have an actual name then?

The link says it's Kaare Andrews. I think he's the guy who wrote and drew that weird Spider-Man dystopia story, where Mary Jane was killed by Spider-Man's radioactive sperm. I thought he did a nice enough Milleresque job there, but the pic above is a bit silly. I wouldn't mind him drawing superheroines with some proper ass, as not so many artists tend to do that, but the butt-to-waist ration on Storm and Emma is ridiculous. Also, the ankles on the girl on the left look seriously anorexic. He's not Liefeld-level crappy though, for example I think he's pretty good at drawing faces.

He's most likely still better than Simone Bianchi, who did a terrible, terrible job on Astonishing X-Men. I'd take big butts over Bianchi's stiff and lifeless painted figures any day. And at least Andrews can draw some proper action scenes, with Bianchi's crappy art they were almost impossible to follow.

on the evidence of Morrison's Shining Knight, Bianchi can actually draw humans, unlike that pic above, but yes, is a completely incompetent cartoonist.

Knight and Day is freakin' great! @TomCruise is at his finest! Tons of great action, thrills and laughs. Real crowd pleaser!

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"The link says it's Kaare Andrews. I think he's the guy who wrote and drew that weird Spider-Man dystopia story, where Mary Jane was killed by Spider-Man's radioactive sperm."

what

yes, it happened

okay now I am mad, why am I agreeing with Rob Liefeld about anything, let alone a wafer-thin movie

speaking of Movies: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/05/12/brett-ratner-youngblood-movie-x-men/

Also, is this a Liefeld record number of pouches?:

http://imgur.com/JAHhG.jpg

I count 18 visible.

who is the dude standing on the right

please please please tell me it is NOT Barack Obama

Okay, it's not.

But this sure is :D

http://imgur.com/NH8H1.jpg

my favourite things about this page:

1) Obama's fucked up nutsack of a hand and kipper feet in panel 1

2) the botched attempt at tracing the first GIS match for "barack smiling" ( really) in panel 2

3) playing aeroplanes in panel 3. or, i guess... miming heavy suitcases?

4) the fact that the presidents bodyguards are literally 2 Crude Dudes . I guess neither of them were "a bad enough dude to rescue the president"

I mean if you're going to get into tracing photos, why not trace a photo of some non-deformed hands and feet, or a picture of some people walking in a normal, human manner? I know i shouldn't be trying to apply reasons to the artistic decisions of Rob Liefeld but I can't help myself he is just so bad

Obama's left nutsackhand in the first panel is a biiiiig improvement on his left hand in the cover (?) picture

I think Obama's facial expression in the last panel is supposed to be "holy shit, 2 snipers" since those bullets are very obviously coming from different directions

why is obama's head so tiny?

hahahahaha

in the Liefeldverse that is akin to asking "why is the sky blue?" or "why are their feet so tiny?" or "what happened to that dude's hand?" or "is that character supposed to be obsessed with pouches?"

(xpost) because the guy can't draw for shit?

There was a thread here on image comics I sort of remember? I can't find it, maybe I imagined it....

Gotta say, if I was hiring artists today (something which I'm occasionally in a position to do), I'd have been polite, but unhesitant in passing that sample right by.

how is that different to any other page Liefeld has every drawn in his life?

Distinct lack of pouches. And there's feet in *two* panels!

With that panel sequence, Liefeld has displaced Fletcher Hanks as champion of something.

...so you'd have hired him if only he'd included more pouches and fewer feet?

No, the work would have to be a lot better. And display a fundamental knowledge of lighting (the colorist shouldn't have to do everything, mang.)

again, that's not distinguishing this from the rest of his ouevre!

god I have to say that it has been literally a decade since I even thought the words "rob liefield". what a terrible, terrible artist

His characters have three facial expressions: tight-lipped, shit-eating grin or yawning.

Yawning generally representing angry or just been shot in the head.

tbf, Liefeld himself seems to only have those three expressions.

http://worldofwardcrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/98692-14213-rob-liefeld_large-1.jpg

http://thenoisingmachine.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/robliefeld.jpg

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/thumb/a/ab/Rob_Liefield,_comic_convention.jpg/200px-Rob_Liefield,_comic_convention.jpg

http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/images/011407rob/rob1.jpg

http://torvald.gjovaag.com/2009ECCC/TrollECCC2009_RobLiefeld.jpg

http://www.sparehed.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ecr06.jpg

the original douchey mccool

I only saw a picture of Liefeld years after I first read his comics - it was pretty funny to look at him and suddenly realize why he draws all his characters with a particular type of face.

http://www.the-isb.com/images/CourageRob02.jpg

it was pretty funny to look at him and suddenly realize why he draws all his characters with a particular type of face.

i think that's quite common tbh - for artists to draw people who skew towards their own features...

Even some of the current popular artists, you pretty much can't tell about one character from another. David Finch I guess is pretty popular, but pretty much almost every character on this cover looks like the same person in the face.

http://reilly2040.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/brightest_day0.jpg