The Secret History of Image X Month!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Image X Month arrived in Sept. of 1994, a once in a lifetime switch of creative teams on established titles, which creator was taking on what title was supposed to remain a mystery until the comics were released. Now it can be told, the secret history of Image X Month! Why did it happen? How did it come together? There were bumps along the way but it awakened a new creativity among the famed Image Creators, charting new paths along the way. What was the impetus behind Image X Month? Rob puts you at the table, peeling it all the way back taking you into the inspiration for the bold choices of a wild experiment that has never been attempted again was forged!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Rob Leifeld and you are listening to Rob Zervations, the show of pop culture and
0:09.2	comic books and everything in between. And we talk here and dwell on comics from my perspective
0:17.1	as a fan since my tender age of seven years old when i pulled off my first
0:23.9	comic to all the way through my now 35 years in the comic book business thank you for joining me
0:29.6	today's episode is a great deep dive into a event into an event that uh i am intimately acquainted with, and we are going to discuss
0:42.4	the phenomenon that is image X month and by association the age of apocalypse.
0:51.4	And we are going to peel back all the layers because it has occurred to me that nobody truly knows how this crazy event came together, why it came together.
1:03.4	And today you're going to get a lot of those secrets spilled and some background info and just how a very interesting, somewhat controversial, but ultimately successful event came to be in the form of Image X month.
1:19.0	Image X month for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about refers to the comic book company of Image Comics launched in 1992 with Youngblood number one, soon followed by Spawn,
1:28.4	Dragon, Wildcats, Shadowhawk, Cyberforce, Wetworks, all of it.
1:32.9	We were a giant earthquake on the comic landscape in the early 90s and quite honestly
1:40.4	shifted so much of how the business worked, how the comic books were printed, the
1:44.8	quality of paper, the introduction of computer color, which these artists now 20 plus years later
1:53.0	are using computer color in the most lush and magnificent ways in painting, literally painting.
1:58.4	We were the beginning of that. We created dedicated computer color departments
2:04.6	within our studios. There was extreme color, there was Wildstorm color. We just introduced an
2:11.8	entire vast array of new comic book characters and ideas and universes. And really what we did is we proved that there was
2:19.5	life outside of the Marvel and DC Comics shared superhero universe and especially in those early
2:25.3	days, those early two and a half, three years of Image Comics. Image Comics was as bright and as
2:32.7	resonant and as influential and impactful as it had ever been.
2:36.7	I am not sitting here tooting my own horn.
2:38.9	I am quite honestly, I'm grateful that what we did mattered as much as it did.
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