Rob Liefeld
- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Rob Liefeld was born in the 1960s. From an early age finding a love for
drawing, he soon found himself filling tests less and less with
meaningful facts and more and more with doodles of superheroes. He knew
he wanted to get into comics. Later on, during 1980's, his father
became 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 to
both DC and Marvel and found himself work on both The New Mutants and
Hawk and Dove. After pumping new life into the New Mutants, the title
was revamped was X-Force (joining the growing line of X titles that
fill the comic book shops). Soon after seeing that creations of his
own, such as Cable and Deadpool, were generating tons of money ), him and several fellow artists went
off and founded Image Comics (via a distribution deal with Malibu Comics, founded by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg), a creator-owned venture into comics. With
artwork that pushed the envelope, Rob and his fellow artists found
themselves reaching superstar status. After years of working together
at 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 an
independent success, Liefeld has several films in the works through his
company: Avengelyne, Badrock, Prophet, and The Mark.