Robert "Rob" Liefeld (born October 3, 1967) is an American comic book creator. A prominent writer/artist in the 1990s, he has since become a controversial figure in the medium.In the early 1990s, the self-taught artist became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, which started a wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers. The first book published by Image Comics was Rob Liefeld's Youngblood #1.
Back in 1997, Liefeld sold a spec script titled "The Mark" for $2 million that attracted the attention of Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg. Will Smith was long attached to producing and starring in the project after Cruise and Spielberg departed but, after several years of active development, the script was shelved.
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His wife is one of the Creel triplets: Joy Creel, Monica Lacy and Leanna Creel.
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Asked his wife to marry him in his comicbook Youngblood
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In 1992, he co-founded Image Comics along with Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino, Marc Silvestri, and Whilce Portacio.