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Re-Create A Wrestler As A Superhero Or Villain In Bleeding Cool's Contest With Project: Rooftop And CHIKARA

Bleeding Cool itself will be hosting a contest that partners with "the avant garde of professional wrestling" and a "premiere superhero fashion site" to invite artists to redesign four wrestlers in the chance to land a licensing contract for their work.

Project: Rooftop is announcing today the new contest "that bridges the gap between superheroes and professional wrestling", inviting artists to redesign four of the wrestlers from the American wrestling organization CHIKARA.  Artists are invited to redesign the wrestling characters Hallowicked, Icarus, Equinox and The Shard, characters that perform under the CHIKARA banner. Artists are encouraged to submit their own rendition of any or all of these four CHIKARA characters to be spotlighted on BleedingCool.com and to be reviewed by a slate of all-star judges from comics and wrestling.

[Hallowicked]

CHIKARA's founder, Mike Quackenbush, explains why he wants to run the contest:

The flavor of wrestling we make at CHIKARA is akin to a comic book come to life; we draw constant, regular inspiration from the medium and our love of comics permeates even the smallest details of our universe. There are so many points of intersection between these worlds, and costuming is a fascinating point from which to explore that.

  [Icarus]

Judges for the contest will include Quackenbush, comics writer and editor (and alum of Marvel & WWE) Aubrey Sitterson, former Marvel & DC editor Ruben Diaz, comics writer Vito Delsante and comics journalist and P:R co-founder Chris Arrant.

Chris Arrant, Project: Rooftop co-founder, says:

The connection between the superhero genre and pro-wrestling runs deep on both sides of the fence, and I'm excited for this unique opportunity with CHIKARA. It'll be interesting to see how artists take their design skills and translate it to these wrestling superheroes and supervillains who perform live.

[The Shard]

So why participate in the contest?

CHIKARA will be providing prize packages for the top 3 scoring entries for each of the four wrestling characters, including tickets to live events, CHIKARA t-shirts and DVDs, as well as a grand prize for the top entry for each character: the winner will be hired (and paid) to provide illustrated work in an upcoming CHIKARA comic collection. Aubrey Sitterson, who has edited comics for Marvel as well as The Walking Dead, has also offered to do an online portfolio review for the highest-scoring entries for each wrestling character.

[Equinox]

So how exactly do you take part in the contest?

Artists may submit multiple designs for each of the four wrestling characters, but they will be judged on a one-by-one basis. Send your submission as a .jpg, .,png or .gif with your full name as the file name. Send your submission as an attachment to recreateawrestler@gmail.com with the subject line being "Re-Create A Wrestler," and make sure to include your name and website in the body of the e-mail. The deadline for submissions is May 2nd, at 5PM Eastern time.

It's as simple as that. Bleeding Cool will be posting updates on the contest, and eventually the artwork of the full slate of winners will appear here, too, so watch the superhero-wrestling mashup drama unfold. We know plenty of you Bleeding Cool readers are artists, so this should be interesting…

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