At Comic Con International last week, Extreme Studios artist Marat Mychaels proposed to his girlfriend Mandy Burden, who quickly said yes — and Robert Kirkman‘s Skybound captured the whole thing on video, and has shared it with Comicbook.com via Extreme Studios founder Rob Liefeld.
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The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman presided over the panel on Thursday, July 20, which celebrated Liefeld’s 30-year career and the 25th anniversary of Extreme Studios. As the panel was wrapping up Robert called a audience member to the stage under the pretense that she had won a prize — but the audience member was Burton, and the rest is history.
Other panelists inclued Dan Fraga, Andy Park, Todd Nauck, Dan Panosian, Norm Rapmund, and Art Thibert.
Liefeld left Marvel Comics in 1992 along with several other artists left who together formed Image Comics. Each of the co-founders created their own studio within the Image brand. Liefeld created Extreme Studios in Orange County, CA. Extreme Studios’ Youngblood #1 was the first comic released under the Image brand.
Extreme Studios became a major player in the comics industry, with a 5.78 market and books that regular outsold DC Comics and Marvel icons like Batman, the Justice League, and Spider-Man, as well as other Image studios like Jim Lee’s Wildstorm (later sold to DC Entertainment) and Todd McFarlane’s TMP.
The creators who worked on the Extreme Studios family of comics, which included Youngblood, Brigade, Bloodstrike, Prophet, and Avengelyne, went on to find success working in comics, television, and video games over the past two decades, with credits that include work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Marvel Studios, Batman: The Animated Series, Ben 10, Robot Chicken, Con Man and Max Steele.
Congratulations to Mychaels and Burden!
