Game Changers! The 5 Biggest Changes In Comic Books!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Rob looks over his 37 year career in comics and shares the 5 biggest and most transformational changes to the industry over the past 3 decades!

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0:00.0	Today we are discussing the five major ways the comic book industry has changed in the over 30 years that I have been working in this business.
0:22.6	Yes, over three decades worth of evolution and change in regards to the way comics are made, the way they are consumed, the way they are discussed.
0:31.6	What are the five major ways that comic books have changed? I am all over it. I have seen it firsthand.
0:40.5	Some of them may surprise you. We cover all of it on today's brand new Robeservations.
0:50.4	Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld. This is the journey that you have chosen to take with me that carries comic books throughout the culture. Since I was a kid, I have been consumed by comic books. I have chronicled this since the very first episode,
1:13.0	seven years old, pulling comic books off the spinner racks. And really, this gives us a
1:17.2	really great prism with which to look at today's particular episode, which is going to focus
1:22.8	heavily on what has changed. If I listed from when I, you know, was seven years old, the changes would just be
1:31.8	staggering.
1:32.6	But I am choosing to share with you today ways that the comics industry, the industry that
1:38.3	makes comic books that creates, comic books that creates comic books, it creates comic
1:42.0	books superheroes or fantasy figures that maybe you have
1:46.9	encountered on you know amazon via invincible or the boys or amc with the walking dead or
1:55.5	disney plus with all of its myriad marvel shows or some of the HBO Max DC Comics shows.
2:03.0	Netflix has Sandman.
2:05.1	All of this, all of these are born from comic books.
2:08.9	They are born by comic book creators who put pen and pencil to paper to pad and created stories
2:15.9	and storytelling that were so compelling that they've
2:19.6	stood the test of time and now live on digital platforms, you know, in movie theaters, as
2:26.3	video games, you know, the entire spectrum of comic books that I existed with as a seven-year-old has taken on an all-new meaning.
2:37.8	But I don't want to get ahead of myself. I've been a professional for now 37 years. And so I wanted
2:43.9	to cover how the comics industry, the five biggest comic book kind of changes in this industry since I became a professional
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