The following is excerpted from an entry for Rob Liefeld in "Wikipedia," a free, Web-based, open-source encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). The very end absolutely slays me...
Rob Liefeld is a comic book artist and cartoon artist whose style of writing and drawing came to epitomize mainstream comic books of the 1990s. His work is criticized as derivative and overly stylized, with poor portrayals of characters and backgrounds, as well as an overall lack of attention to detail. He is known as "The Most Hated Man in Comics." (His other claim to fame is appearing as himself in a Levi's commercial.) However, he led the new wave of creator-owned comic books (as opposed to books owned solely by their publishers, including most books by Marvel Comics and DC Comics), and he also semi-successfully marketed his creations to toy companies and movie studios (although his marketing the action figure of his archer character Shaft as "Rob Liefeld's Shaft: 7 Inches, fully poseable" is widely regarded as an amusingly horrific error).
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