A5 – Fanzines

The following books are physical fanzines created using Liefeld-verse characters in fanfiction.

  • Youngblood Bootleg (2006) #1 [Box Social Press] 2006
    • fan-made “non-profit” comic
  • Rub the Blood (2011) 12/2011
    • Kickstarter project created by Ian Harker
    • “RUB THE BLOOD is an Art Comix tabloid that explores the lasting influence (for better or worse) of the Early 90’s Collector Boom comics of Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, etc. on today’s most fringe underground cartoonists.”
    • splash tribute to Supreme returning to Earth at the start of Image Comics
    • Prophet and his girlfriend
    • Extreme Team mash-up pin-up
  • WIZERD: The Comics Megazine (2020) #1 [Cosmic Lion Comix] 10/2020
    • interview with Gary Carlson mentions work with Supreme
    • ad (real? inspiration?) for “Image Grand Design”
    • pixel art gallery contains Badrock image
    • Amazing Art fan art showcase contains a Vogue/Photon piece
  • Gabriel Santos Eskivo Art Book 2020 (2020) #1 [Atlas Studios] 01/2021
    • Andrew Rev held some kind of control over the rights to Youngblood/Supreme/others
    • Rev hired Eskivo as an artist on Supreme
    • “Scammers scam” so artist released unpaid art (w/o text) as part of an artist sketchbook
    • Kickstarter project
    • published long before anything from Rev
  • Image Grand Design / Image Grand Disaster (2021) #1 [Cosmic Lion Comix] 2021
    • flip-book
    • fan-made “non-profit” comic
    • collaborative effort made by fans during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Darkest Image / Darkest Image Presents (2021) [Image Fan Designs/Marcosis Studios]
    • flip-book; fan-made “non-profit” comic
    • collaborative effort made by fans during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Darkest Image 2 (2022) [Image Fan Designs/Marcosis 6 Studios]
    • a fan-made jam-comic
  • WIZERD: The Comics Megazine (2020) #2 [Cosmic Lion Comix] 2022?
    • Seahawk appearance on page 30
    • Prophet appearance on page 151 as part of a piece on Dan Panosian
    • page 238 has an interview with Brandon Graham that mentions his work on Prophet.
    • pages 338-339 has a Liefeld-inspired double-page image
    • pages 406-409 is a checklist of Alan Moore works
  • Contraband Comic Cavalcade #1 (2023) [Cosmic Lion Comix] 2023
    • fan work by Barry Tan
    • appearances from Badrock and Prophet and other references to Extreme Studios
    • includes a story meant to be part of the satirical “Splitting Image” Universe.