Rob Liefeld was born in the 1960s. From an early age finding a love fordrawing, he soon found himself filling tests less and less withmeaningful facts and more and more with doodles of superheroes. He knewhe wanted to get into comics. Later on, during 1980's, his fatherbecame ill and he found himself with a new reason to get into comics:To support his family. At a comics convention, he showed his work toboth DC and Marvel and found himself work on both The New Mutants andHawk and Dove. After pumping new life into the New Mutants, the titlewas revamped was X-Force (joining the growing line of X titles thatfill the comic book shops). Soon after seeing that creations of hisown, such as Cable and Deadpool, were generating tons of money ), him and several fellow artists wentoff and founded Image Comics (via a distribution deal with Malibu Comics, founded by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg), a creator-owned venture into comics. Withartwork that pushed the envelope, Rob and his fellow artists foundthemselves reaching superstar status. After years of working togetherat Image, Rob quit/Image fired him and he went off with Joseph Loeb III(writer of Commando and producer of Firestorm) and Scott Mitchell Rosenberg(developer of Men In Black, CEO Platinum Studios, 14 time New York Times Bestseller creator ) and founded Awesome Entertainment (now Awesome Comics). Now anindependent success, Liefeld has several films in the works through hiscompany: Avengelyne, Badrock, Prophet, and The Mark.
BornOctober 3, 1967
Writer
Producer
Actor
- Alternative name
- The Image Comic Founders
- Born
- Spouse
- Joy CreelJuly 1, 1995 - present (2 children)
- Other worksTV commercial for Levi's Jeans
- TriviaIn 1992, he co-founded Image Comics along withTodd McFarlane,Jim Lee,Erik Larsen,Jim Valentino,Marc Silvestri, andWhilce Portacio.
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