Most of Liefeld's shyt was blatant Marvel rip offs
Liefeld was a complete social jerk at times, reportedly.
Yet he revolutionized new mutants and created xforce and is the guy as a teen.
Whom at the time being a younger teen myself. trying to get into comics way before comic school during high school. Liefeld was a young artist who made it and was influential for me.
when i first started to learn to be a penciler.
Later when I went to comic school and guys ragged on liefeld. I still appreciated that liefeld was a definite influence. Being the youngest next pro hopeful in my comic book school class.
I never committed to the liefeld bashing. as far as showing I could do it in my teenage years professionally and before the workload was too heavy during college. I was a pro penciler out of comic school and had a penciling assignment on this book called gwyren.
Real talk,....i would have never known it was possible if I never had new mutants 86 & 87 to start.
Art Barr
shyt liefeld actually shared or reshared a photo I found of him online too. So, I kinda know about people's gripes about liefeld. Yet before I socially knew anyone in comics. Liefeld was important for me as a teen penciler. to know I could possibly do my dream of pencil comics at a young age too.
If not for liefeld,....
I don't have any way of knowing penciling comics professionally as a teenager is a real reality.
Art Barr