Dateline: Orange County - Rob Liefeld Still An Asshole
Author: Stephen Gerding
October 15th, 2007
I love this article. In it, everyone’s favorite bastion of integrity, Rob Liefeld, takes credit for saving Alan Moore’s career, calls Moore names and basically claims that the best work Moore ever did was during his stint with Rob’s studio. This is the same Rob Liefeld that I’ve been told would parade through the Awesome/Maximum/SuperPowerfulExtreme Studios bullpen with whatever new Moore Supreme script had just come off the fax machine while proclaiming “Alan Moore is my bitch!”
Classy!
“Alan just wants to get paid more money, that’s it. Sorry Alan. I got my body of work out of Alan Moore, he doesn’t intimidate me, I don’t put him on a pedestal like Jack Kirby and Frank Miller,. He’s just a guy who wants to get paid, and he cuts deals for himself that he doesn’t like down the line, and then he gets whiny and cries about it…Hey man, he worked for me for two years, I was quiet for like ten years. And then I watched him burn every other bridge, and I go “Hmm.” Although we didn’t have a falling out with him. He just stopped working with us, because he now wanted to invest in his new universe with Wildstorm comics, and again, like I said, OOPS! That went up in flames. He gives ‘temperamental artist’ a new meaning.”
“And he comes out and he lets everybody know now ‘I’m going to crap all over the adaptations you do,’ he’s shown no loyalty to his fellow artists like Dave Gibbons or David Lloyd. He knows that by coming out and crapping on the movie, he’s gonna keep a certain percentage of the fan base away. He’s an interesting cat, someone should do a documentary, I’m waiting for the CRUMB version of Alan Moore.”
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One Response to “Dateline: Orange County - Rob Liefeld Still An Asshole”






October 16th, 2007 at 2:36 am
On the one hand,
“And he comes out and he lets everybody know now ‘I’m going to crap all over the adaptations you do,’ he’s shown no loyalty to his fellow artists like Dave Gibbons or David Lloyd. He knows that by coming out and crapping on the movie, he’s gonna keep a certain percentage of the fan base away.”
There is a point there. About loyalty toward your collaborators. But, on the other hand, the three big Alam Moore Movie adaptations have stunk. From Hell, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V For Vendetta are all pretty atrocious. So, I appreciate Alan Moore keeping the fan base away from crap adaptations of his work.
And, I’ll say this, Liefeld is on point that a Crumb-style documentary about Alan Moore would be amazing and ridiculous.