The Epitome of Liefeld
Looking at this preview piece from Rob Liefeld's upcoming short stint on Teen Titans with Gail Simone, I am struck by how well that this piece sums up Liefeld's artistic career.
For those who dislike him, this piece is pretty funny, as it is full of the things that people generally make fun of him for.
- The increased bust size (on a teen girl, to boot)
- The weird looking hands
- The wristbands covering up the lack of wrists
- The odd anatomy
However, for those who like him, this piece is also a good example of why Liefeld is so popular.
- The piece is very dynamic and striking.
- The piece draws your attention to it, with the stiltled power of the drawing (and yes, some would say it draws them to it because of how bad it looks, like a trainwreck draws in an audience).
So it struck me as quite amusing how well this piece reflects both why Liefeld is mocked as an artist and also why there are so many fans of his art.
For those who dislike him, this piece is pretty funny, as it is full of the things that people generally make fun of him for.
- The increased bust size (on a teen girl, to boot)
- The weird looking hands
- The wristbands covering up the lack of wrists
- The odd anatomy
However, for those who like him, this piece is also a good example of why Liefeld is so popular.
- The piece is very dynamic and striking.
- The piece draws your attention to it, with the stiltled power of the drawing (and yes, some would say it draws them to it because of how bad it looks, like a trainwreck draws in an audience).
So it struck me as quite amusing how well this piece reflects both why Liefeld is mocked as an artist and also why there are so many fans of his art.
posted by Brian Cronin at 4/28/2005 07:56:00 PM
5 Comments:
If there's one thing about Rob you can't make fun of (and I think there's only one), it's his passion and energy for comics.
I'd love to see his take on Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, though.
How much you want to bet his Cyborg will be made up entirely of light-boxed Cable drawings?
Rob Liefeld's popularity/notoriety is a result of fans' acceptance of subpar work---and their embrace of the familiar. Mr Liefeld still navigates in the same creative marshlands he did over a decade ago...and the process of acquiring new skillsets is almost non-existent. Not all famous illustrators start off impressively, but most do mature rapidly under the engine of their own integrity or quest for creative maturity. If you look at Burne Hogarth's first-year run on Tarzan after Hal Foster, it's not jaw-droppingly good, in fact, it's painfully amateurish; indeed, one would have been hard-pressed to understand why the editors chose him as a follow-up to Foster. But in a little more than a year, Hogarth was developing a style that, while not to the liking of all, was genuinely arresting and constantly evolving. Mr. Liefeld has been aped, lampooned, derided and hailed as an innovator, all of which misses the point---Why does Liefeld draw the way he does? Because as long as he finds work, why (barring some sudden stroke of artistic self-realization) should he tinker with the formula?
Like most Liefled women, she has an enormous crotch bulge too.
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