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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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THANOS! INFINITY GAUNTLET! LEGION OF SUPER HEROES! JOKER! DEATH METAL! Rob examines today’s comic book marketplace through the lens of yesteryear. Jimmy Jay, CEO of Amazing Comic Con and Jay Company Comics joins Rob to discuss current shifts and trends and how they stack up to milestones of the past.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Zervations. My name is Rob Lightfield. I am on my journey with these Rob
0:14.2	Observation Podcasts and you guys have been so generous to come along on this journey with me. This covers my kind of really my life with
0:24.7	comic books from when I started at a very young age, seven years old. The bug bit me. I can
0:32.3	remember where I bought basically every single comic book ever. What time a day, where, what city, what store,
0:42.8	really where I was standing, magazine racks.
0:46.4	I can remember if I got this at a grocery store or that at the liquor store or that
0:52.1	at the 7-Eleven comics have some weird connection with me
0:55.5	that I can't quite explain. It's like nothing else. And I mean, I love movies. I think I'm a movie
1:00.8	buff. I think I'm I literally my wife and I see on on average 50 movies in theaters prior to the
1:10.0	pandemic. But I just don't have the same as passionate as I'm
1:14.4	about movies. I'm not the same comics. Comics are my thing and it became my, you know,
1:22.2	obsession to break into the field and contribute to the field and I have been fortunate to have a 34 year career
1:29.0	making comics Deadpool X-Force cable Domino, Hawk and Dove, Youngblood, Starter Image Comics,
1:36.8	launched image comics. So what we do here, as you know, and if you're new to this, and you don't
1:42.7	know, we talk about comics uh past past present and
1:48.4	future or future as i just said past present and future so here's the deal we're changing it up a little
1:54.5	this week it's great i am joined by a brilliant mind in comics.
2:01.7	He has been in retail for over 25 years selling comic books.
2:06.0	You have probably seen him at one of the major conventions.
2:08.4	He definitely dominates every single San Diego Comic-Con.
2:13.0	And my buddy, Jimmy Jay, went on to launch a series of comic conventions himself in the last decade and has done umpteen amount of comic book conventions he has thrown them in Las Vegas he has thrown them in Hawaii he has thrown them in Arizona he has even been to Oklahoma City with his shows. Jimmy has done big shows.
2:38.0	They are dedicated to comics.
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