Rob Liefeld Quotes

Seth Rogen told me to read 'Preacher,' and 'Preacher' was amazing.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

'Thunderbolts' I was mostly attracted to because I really wanted to write Punisher and Elektra and Deadpool, who are characters I have always really enjoyed. But the funny thing is that over time, I came to really like Red Leader; he became one of my favorite guys in the book. Sometimes characters surprise you.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

I love what Brian Azzarello did with Wonder Woman.

People have debated both sides of the Liefeld influence, good and bad, and I maintain the sales and the results of that time bear out that people love that stuff.

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books.

I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.'

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!

I'm working on a new creator-owned series for Vertigo called 'The Discipline.'

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.