Monday, February 10, 2003

Liefield on Liefield
I doubt that many of you will be willing to wade through the quagmire of Millar World's board to find all the tastey meat about Rob Liefield, so I've done the work for you. Lots of interesting tidbits there. Enjoy!

"The main reason I left [Image], yes, left for all you subscribers to reality, was that I knew that in order to fulfill my creative desires I needed to leave the circle and the restrictions that were suddenly being imposed. I would never had experienced working with several of the creative folks that I went on to work with had I remained in the fold, shackled with the don't hire him away but I can hire him away from you nonsense. Sometimes you gotta become the nemesis in order to acomplish your desires."

"I was pretty much coked out for the better part of two years before I got clean, everybody at Extreme was dopin' it up. The place was a wall to wall drugstore. How do you think we all stayed up for forty-eight hour binges getting all those books out?"

"Honestly, I fall into the category of those who believe that Savage Dragon peaked fifty issues back. The rest has been pretty crappy. Telling me that my commitment to fans would be better served putting out work that doesn't grow artistically and tells the same version of the same story over and over and over is pretty ridiculous. I could do 100 issues of crap and slip through the cracks as easy as the next guy. No thanks. "

"Only a small handful of artists can deliver consistent work and maintain quality. I've never been one of those guys"

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