If you find women standing on their tippy toes with two right legs sexy....
 
 
;)

Hate him? No. I just have no respect for him. I mean, I can draw a foot better than he can, and I have two left hands when it comes to drawing.

"I really don't get it, really. I think most people are just jumping the bandwagon because it's popular to hate him.I mean sure, he exaggerates anatomy and it really looks gross. But I know that he draws better than 80% of comic readers. Sure, his stories are cheesy. But he's never claimed that his work is superior, has he?Is it because he was successful in his time? Well comic readers have no one to blame but themselves. You've got no legitimate reason to hate him without blaming yourselves.He may be the main reason that I kept away from comics growing up because of his gross anatomy, but I still can't hate the guy.Besides, most comic fans owe him alot for creating Deadpool."

" @inferiorego: You think he draws 'sexy'??? "

" Rob didn't create Cable or Deadpool.  He drew a guy with lines all over his face, pouches all over his costume and a bunch of oversize guns (overcompensating much Rob?) and he drew a guy that was Deathstroke with a with a red and black color scheme.  Later, other writers would give these characters actual personality, Cable much sooner than Deadpool. "

This is quite funny (although some of the image links are now broken). 
 
The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings by Progressive Boink.

Wow, all of these posts and after all of these months and no one has made an issue of the swipes of other artists he's used over the years. From character poses to panels to entire double-page spreads, Liefeld has "borrowed" from some of the best.
 
HOWEVER, the guy put it all together in a package that appealed to a lot of people for a number of years (and still does; his books still sell). He's got a kinetic, frenetic style that is exciting, even if devoid of anything resembling technical prowess. He's made good money doing it, too. That may be the part that gets most people: the guy got rich and they didn't think of it first!
 
Seriously, I was never his biggest fan during the "boom" period, but the guy did contribute some memorable characters to the Marvel U and had a hand in revolutionizing the independent comic industry through Image, so he's not all bad in my book.
 
BTW, he recently did an interview where he explained the history behind "Captain Ameri-cans" in which he explained that it was a rush job at something like 2 AM, Jim Lee called him after seeing it and told him it needed to be fixed, he was tired and said it was fine, and the rest is history. Revisionist story or not, that's his take on it.

@Zoom said:

" I'm not mad because I didn't think of selling poorly drawn characters for oodles of money before Rob did. I'm mad because people paid him oodles of money to draw characters poorly.  Ideally, the best comic book artists and writers should be employed at marvel, dc and all the other smaller companies.  It always annoys me when they employ sub par talent when I know there are hundreds of people out there who wish they could make comics professionally.  It annoys me more when the hacks develop a fan base and get rich off shitty work. "
 

Yes, and ideally the best actors will get the best roles in Hollywood, but Megan Fox is still getting work. Rob Liefled is the comic book equivilant of Megan Fox: he's popular but no one likes him. He gets showered with money and steady work, but everyone thinks he sucks. Then who's buying this stuff? Maybe not "everyone" is so down on ol' Rob.
 
In the end, the blame (if you want to call it that) lays with the fans. If no one made a big deal about Megan Fox (who, in my estimation, looks and acts like she may be an android of some type) or if no one bought Rob Liefeld books, they would go away. But people still support them, and in large numbers, too. Would anyone turn down being showered with adoration and money because someone deemed them "not worthy"? No, I don't reckon most people would. Simply, there is a market for this stuff and at one time it was actually a HUGE market. I almost never see supporters of his work though. So, unless he's buying 30,000 copies of everything he does, there's a pretty big silent fanbase out there somewhere.
 
My personal opinions aside (and again, I'm not really a supporter but his contributions can't be denied), unless he has some mutant power of persuasion over comic book editors, they are hiring him for a reason. That reason is because his name can still sell a book. Don't ask me why, but it's true and that's pretty much the reality of it.

Well....his twitter feed is pretty funny:
 
 http://twitter.com/Rob_Liefeld
 
Some examples:
 
" For Halloween I'm gonna dress up as myself, and walk around the neighborhood scaring kids by saying "I'm gonna draw you!!"" AIEEEEE SCARY"
 
" Time to take a shower in my "Resting on my Laurels Money" 10:10 AM Sep 25th from web  "
 
" Time to do some of those Wanted 2 Character Studies that Mark Millar asked me to work up... Angelina Jolie is gonna look HOT with pouches! 2:03 PM Sep 28th from web  "

Personally, I think Liefeld is a complete a**hole. He constantly rips on other artists who he thinks he is better than, like the new creative team for Deadpool. He called them 'D listers', and he considers himself an A-lister.

His art sucks, he puts forth no effort at all (he admitted he sometimes inks his panels while driving, dangerous and sloppy) and he gets along with nobody. He quit Image seconds before they kicked him out.

He also brags about how Deadpool and Cable haven't had a costume change since they were created, a 'testimony to great creation' or some bullcrap like that. He didn't create them alone anyways. As if getting costume changes means the character is a bad character in some way. He sounds like the old guy you hear bragging about how his son was a great football player in highschool.

Liefeld makes so many anatomical mistakes, even in his new52 art. He doesn't even try to fix it, he just inks it over and colors it.