It's Probably Liefeld Annetta: I found

It's Probably Liefeld

Annetta submitted:

I found this the other day, and I thought you might enjoy the humor. I’m not trying to hate on the artist, but considering how many of his drawings you have here… Source is memebase.com.

This is a big misconception about my blog, and I think I’ll add this into the FAQ when I make one.  A lot of people think that Rob Liefeld makes up most of my archives, or at least that he’s lapping the field of individual artists by far.  I KNEW this misconception was going to happen when I first started this blog so I made it a point to save all my Liefeld pictures until later, so I posted 0 Liefeld until I had 800 posts in my archives. 

I was concerned people would dismiss my blog early on as being “oh it’s just Liefeld, he can’t draw ANYBODY” if I used him, and even back then I saw people dismissing that when my blog was linked.  “Just posting Liefeld is aiming at low hanging fruit” etc… when I hadn’t posted him at all.  (In a way I was also curious just how much people assumed everything bad under the comic sun was by him. xD )

Liefeld is the artist that the internet has basically made famous as being a terrible comic artist and drawing women horribly, so people just assume he does a lot of what’s done in comics.  I’ve seen pictures drawn by other artists attributed to him or people going “oh that’s probably Liefeld” and I think that adds to the idea that he’s responsible for everything.  Part of the point of my tumblr was to show this was a more widespread issue than just one artist, and that it’s NOT Liefeld being responsible for the broken spines or odd anatomy or sexualization of women in combat poses.

In this blog, Liefeld has 17 pictures.  He’s one of the most redrawn artist so there are quite a number of posts in his tag, but only 17 actual things drawn by him.

In comparison, Ian Churchill has 31.  Ed Benes has 30.  Mike Deodato has 29.  J. Scott Campbell has 22, Marc Silvestri has 20 and Michael Turner has 18.

That’s 6 artists ahead of Liefeld at least.  (I’ve recently realized that Ale Garza did a LOT of the Zenescope stuff, and I never tagged them, so he will be in the leaderboards soon too)

That doesn’t mean Liefeld is the 6th worst artist when drawing women, and I have not put up ALL of the stuff he’s drawn (same goes to the rest of them too) but I do think that people give Liefeld an undue amount of credit for bad comic book women art, and also he’s become sort of a scapegoat.  In a way the other artists should be thanking him, because in another world, it could be Deodato and his plasticine legs, or Ian Churchill and his boneless bodies that become internet infamous.