“Now, in the Liefeld household, I don't tend to share the fact that I created Deadpool with my kids, so when all the video games started coming out where Wade was at the center of them, I couldn't help but smile.”

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.