The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings

[Flavius]

I have to believe that many of you have already seen this, but if you haven't and you hate fucking Rob Liefeld's "art" as much as I do, then you're going to absolutely love this. (http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html)

For you younger guys, yes, we really did put up with this shit back in the early 90's. I haven't forgotten your shitty, Rob Liefeld knock-off art either, Marc Pacella.

[Burr]

I'm not even a comic book or graphic novel buff and I'm still busting a gut over this! :p

I just can't believe this garbage got published..

[BloodShot iPod]

That was amazing.

[bringBackPluto]

I'm going to have to read New Frontier twice to get back to baseline after reading that....sigh.

nice find

[Lord Moon]

I can't believe I actually bought some of those titles. Thankfully I did not follow any of his Image titles, they all sounded like X-men rip-offs.......then again they were.

[Flavius]

I can't believe I actually bought some of those titles. Thankfully I did not follow any of his Image titles, they all sounded like X-men rip-offs.......then again they were.

Sadly enough, I not only purchased his New Mutants stuff, but his X-Force and Youngblood stuff as well. I try to convince myself that I only read it to keep up with the cross-title storylines (Marvel) like Extinction Agenda, but honestly, I'm not so sure. Perhaps sado-masochism?

Honestly, I think at least some portion of Liefeld's success derived from the fact that you looked at his stuff and thought to yourself "shit, if this guy can be a massive success drawing badly proportioned figures with seven fingers and no feet, then there's a good chance that I could be the next hot artist, too!" What's crazy to me is that there is almost nothing redeeming about his art whatsoever. He wasn't even a decent inker, fer chrissakes! Were it not for guys like Danny Miki, his art would have looked even worse than it already was.

Compare that to someone like Scott Williams, longtime Homage Studios inker for guys like Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio. Scott could actually draw, and did a couple of pretty nice projects, but remained primarily an inker throughout his career (at least, his career up until the mid-90's, when I stopped reading comics).

[bringBackPluto]

for all the shit that 90s comics get, a surprising amount of good stuff has come out of the decade. Notables include The Invisibles, Transmetropolitan, Sandman and Preacher. Some good stuff bookends the decade, like Doom Patrol and Identity Crisis.

I'm just thankful I got into comics as recently as I did, lately theres been a lot of great writing.

[Lord Moon]

Compare that to someone like Scott Williams, longtime Homage Studios inker for guys like Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio. Scott could actually draw, and did a couple of pretty nice projects, but remained primarily an inker throughout his career (at least, his career up until the mid-90's, when I stopped reading comics).

While I do have quite a few faves from the '80's and '90's, my all-time favorite artist is still Joe Kubert. I remember as a kid my mom getting me some Tarzan and Sgt. Rock comics (one was a huge poster sized Tarzan....man if I still had that). I just remember how his art really set the mood.

I stopped collecting comics in the late '90's. I had way too many titles I was trying to keep up with and not enough money. Besides the Kubert family the other names that pop into my head right now are Adam Hughes, Barry Windsor-Smith, Erik Larsen, and Todd McFarlane.

[Flavius]

While I do have quite a few faves from the '80's and '90's, my all-time favorite artist is still Joe Kubert. I remember as a kid my mom getting me some Tarzan and Sgt. Rock comics (one was a huge poster sized Tarzan....man if I still had that). I just remember how his art really set the mood.

I stopped collecting comics in the late '90's. I had way too many titles I was trying to keep up with and not enough money. Besides the Kubert family the other names that pop into my head right now are Adam Hughes, Barry Windsor-Smith, Erik Larsen, and Todd McFarlane.

Kubert is fantastic, definitely one of my favorite "classic" artists. His sons, Adam and Andy, turned out to be pretty decent artists as well. Adam Hughes did great work, when he actually drew comics instead of the cheesecake pin-up rut he fell into. Barry Windsor-Smith is another one of my favorites as well...the Weapon X serial he did for MCP was fantastic.

Larsen was okay. McFarlane ran the gamut from really, really good to where the fuck did this guy learn to draw??? Both of these guys are fucking horrible storytellers, though, and really need a good writer to keep them on track.

As far as the guys drawing during the early 90's, my vote would go towards Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkewicz, Jim Aparo, Graham Nolan, Pat Broderick, Bart Sears, Ron Lim, George Perez, John Byrne, Michael Golden, Kevin McGuire, Larry Stroman, and the aforementioned Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio.

Being a huge Batman fan, my all-time favorite is easy: Neal Adams. The guy is such a fucking cook, but I appreciate what he did in paving the way for the Image guys and getting Siegel & Shuster more than what they would have received from DC otherwise. I just wish the dude would draw Batman more.

[GH33DA]

OH man!

He comes the memories. Falling on my head like an...nvm

Is it raining? Yes, it's raining bad anatomy. His drawings are as bad as mine. But, I don't get paid to draw. in fact, I paid him. Therein lies the problem. Thank you, Flav. Thank you for reminding me I blew cash on years of crap. I really indeed that in my life.

[JoEDigiTECH]

That list could go up to a thousand. His anatomy was a hot mess. Yuck.

My favorite artist is John Romita Jr. Simple lines & great anatomy are important to me.

Plus I think he has put up some of the finest splash pages this industry has ever seen:

http://dialbforblog.com/archives/100/jrjr.jpg

Ok...I'm going to go draw now. :smt026

[Flavius]

JRJR is great.

Anyone else have his daddy's How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way book as a kid? I loved that book.

p.s. Share my shame, GH33DA...share my shame. :banghead:

[bringBackPluto]

my current fave has got to be darwyn cooke,

http://www.sofos.com/artgallery/ff/img/cooke01.jpg

but I recently picked up Godland and I'm really digging the cosmic Kirby goodness of Tom Scioli

P.S. - I have no idea who "Jim" is :P

[Lord Moon]

Kubert is fantastic, definitely one of my favorite "classic" artists. His sons, Adam and Andy, turned out to be pretty decent artists as well. Adam Hughes did great work, when he actually drew comics instead of the cheesecake pin-up rut he fell into. Barry Windsor-Smith is another one of my favorites as well...the Weapon X serial he did for MCP was fantastic.

Larsen was okay. McFarlane ran the gamut from really, really good to where the fuck did this guy learn to draw??? Both of these guys are fucking horrible storytellers, though, and really need a good writer to keep them on track.

As far as the guys drawing during the early 90's, my vote would go towards Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkewicz, Jim Aparo, Graham Nolan, Pat Broderick, Bart Sears, Ron Lim, George Perez, John Byrne, Michael Golden, Kevin McGuire, Larry Stroman, and the aforementioned Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio.

Being a huge Batman fan, my all-time favorite is easy: Neal Adams. The guy is such a fucking cook, but I appreciate what he did in paving the way for the Image guys and getting Siegel & Shuster more than what they would have received from DC otherwise. I just wish the dude would draw Batman more.

You are an evil man. I'm now flooded with memories of comics. If I'm in a comic store in the next week buying comics I'm blaming you.

:smt077

Some of those names, it's like how could I forget them.

[JoEDigiTECH]

[QUOTE=Flavius;329493]JRJR is great.

Anyone else have his daddy's How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way book as a kid? I loved that book.
QUOTE]

Yeah I had that.

I'm now reading John Romita, And All That Jazz (http://www.amazon.com/John-Romita-All-That-Jazz/dp/1893905756/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213700742&sr=8-2). It's basically a series of interviews about his life in the industry. Really fascinating stuff. It's always awesome to hear the greats talk about who they looked up too.

[Flavius]

You are an evil man. I'm now flooded with memories of comics. If I'm in a comic store in the next week buying comics I'm blaming you.

:smt077

Some of those names, it's like how could I forget them.

Oh yeah? Well I'm blaming you right back! :p

There's actually a pretty decent comic store called Sci Fi City down the road from where I teach. Looks like I'll be heading over there shortly.

[shiroren8]

i always thought i was the only one that couldn't really understand how rob liefield got paid for his work. he needed so much rudimentary stuff its ridiculous basic anatomy for one, i figured he would have learned that by now but he still has things all off center. i never really had much skill with drawing thats why i kinda gave up on it long time ago cause i would have been just another him in the industry and there are already way too many mediocre artist out. though the crop at marvel and dc does seem to be back on the up swing of some good new artists popping up.

[PacoDG]

I have to believe that many of you have already seen this, but if you haven't and you hate fucking Rob Liefeld's "art" as much as I do, then you're going to absolutely love this. (http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html)

For you younger guys, yes, we really did put up with this shit back in the early 90's. I haven't forgotten your shitty, Rob Liefeld knock-off art either, Marc Pacella.

I honestly don't mean to bump old threads... but holy shit that site is too god damn funny, never seen anyone make a hate site for such a (what was good at the time) artist. everytime i see his terrible captain america drawing i can hardly look back at the stuff I used to think was good.