Comics Alliance has a particularly fascinating post up, going back to the days of yore — 1990, that is.
In those glory days of million-selling comics, House of Ideas architect Stan Lee also did some video interviews with “Comic Book Greats” — and in this case, the interview is with Rob Liefeld.
What’s so fascinating for me is to see Liefeld really at the beginning of his career. For frame of reference, in this video, Rob Liefeld is 23 — which is both cool and a bit intimidating, as that’s exactly how old I am right now. Listening to him discuss how he broke into the industry — at age 19, no less — is a good story, even as breaking into the industry is tougher than ever.
If you click the Youtube link up above, there are additional parts to this interview — watching Rob draw “Cross” — one of the early names for Cable, if I recall correctly — is additionally cool. Do you think Rob knew how popular that character would become? And listening to him talk about style, about working with editors, well, it’s definitely something you should see. Check it out, let us know what you think!
October 27th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Good times. Fun day, great 90′s hair!
October 27th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Comic Book Greats W/ Rob Liefield lol
October 27th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I like how “Comic Book Greats” was put in quotation marks to describe Leifeld… It’s sort of like saying “Great President” or “Scholarly” to describe George W. Bush, “Role Model” to describe Lindsay Lohan, “Parents of the Year” to describe Jon & Kate.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
“If you click the Youtube link up above, there are additional parts to this interview — watching Rob draw “Cross” — one of the early names for Cable, if I recall correctly — is additionally cool.”
Actually, Cross was a character from the Berzerkers series from Rob’s Extreme Studios, not an early name for Cable. Two separate characters.
Other names bandied about for Cable included Quinn and Commander X, each offered by different people at Marvel at the time . . . but Rob’s choice of “Cable” was the one that ultimately stuck.