Alex Ross Art Winner! With An Eye Patch!

[Rich Johnston]

Here are some of the entries to the Alex Ross Original Art competition we ran on Bleeding Cool, where the lucky winner would walk away with a Masks #1 with an original art piece from Alex Ross painted on the cover.

All they had to do was redesign a character from Masks for today. As you can see below, a number did just that.

But there can be only one winner, and while I was tempted so much to award it to the Lovecraftian Shadow below, in the end it just had to go to this Samuel Jackson-inspired version of Miss Fury from Bleeding Cool poster known as Eyemelt.



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[db8coach]

All of these are great...although a bunch of these characters are timeless. The 1930s look that the Shadow has would work today as would the 50s look that Green Hornet has.

[Matt Krotzer]

I would've had a hard time not picking the "elder gods" Shadow, myself.

[Tally]

Miss Fury. I get it. Not bad, but I would have preferred a redesign of a character from Masks instead, as opposed to a gender-bender of a completely unrelated character. It's still cool, don't get me wrong, but it's just a novelty entry. No disrespect though, Eyemelt. I'd read a comic about that Miss Fury.

Maybe I should have entered my design for The Superior Spider?

[MWEDMER]

I wish I would have known this was happening. I would have joined the fun.

[Eyemelt]

Miss Fury. I get it. Not bad, but I would have preferred a redesign of a character from Masks instead, as opposed to a gender-bender of a completely unrelated character. It's still cool, don't get me wrong, but it's just a novelty entry. No disrespect though, Eyemelt. I'd read a comic about that Miss Fury.

Maybe I should have entered my design for The Superior Spider?

Gotta say, the competition was tight, very lucky to get picked from a lot of top work! Thanks for kind words, Miss Fury is actually a character in Masks, and she's already a she! I don't think this version will make an appearance in comic form anytime soon, although I wouldn't be surprised to see Marvel put out a female Fury.

[Cavemold]

I liked miss fury the most

[Rage Comment]

Are you kidding me? THAT won?
Lets look at why it fails.
A- Its a contest about redesigning a character and the winner just put boobs on Ultimate Nic Fury. HOW is that a redesign?
B- Even the genderbend was not a redesign. Just boobs.
C- The book is about CHARACTERS IN MASKS. And this one has NO MASK. A violation on what the element of the comic is based on.
D- Its not even related to the REAL Miss Fury. Its just a steal from Marvel comics.
E- And most of the entries are just taking what is already THERE and just adding crap to the design. With no attempt to make a redesign true to the CHARACTER. Only the one drawn by dlx-artist seemed to even understand the character. This is not redesign but mary sue crap.
F-With the exception of dlx-artist not one seemed to understand the aspect of what goes into design. No thought on silhouette, simple redraw-able design, or pleasing design.

And I won't even go into the fact that ONLY dlx-artist seemed to have good art. This is a sad thing that this was the winner and is proof that Bleeding cool is run by idiots. Glad I didn't waste my time with it.