“I've always loved both Marvel and DC equally, but I don't have a career without DC giving me the original 'Hawk and Dove' mini-series.”

American comic book creator

Rob Liefeld is an American comic book creator best known for co-creating Cable with Louise Simonson and Deadpool with Fabian Nicieza. He came to wide attention in the early 1990s through his work on Marvel Comics’ The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he left Marvel with several other well-known artists to help found Image Comics, a company associated with the rise of creator-owned comics. The first book Image published was Youngblood #1, by Liefeld. His name is tied to some of the era’s most recognizable mainstream comics characters and projects.