50 Girls 50 Winner - AXEL MEDELLIN

Frank Cho · Monkey Boy King Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 3776

Okay! The time has come to announce the winner of the 50-GIRLS-50 talent search. I have to tell you that both the number and quality of the submissions really blew me away—I mean, I knew there were a lot of talented comic artists out there, but I hadn’t expected so many to try this out! Thanks to all of you! It was great fun seeing those six (and later seven) pages done in so many different ways and styles.

Judging was very difficult. We had to grade the entries on multiple counts—the fidelity to the model sheets produced by Frank, the story-telling displayed, the quality of the layouts—all of these came into play.

The ten finalists were asked to do one more page—a page that would show us how they would lay things out on their own—and even with that information, it was tough making a decision!

We managed to pick the final four artists but picking a winner out of the four was extremely difficult since each artist had what we were looking for in terms of quality and clear storytelling skills. Frank and I went back and forth till the very last minute on who the winner should be. We constantly changed our winner list every day.

Still, it had to be done—so I want to announce that the winner of the contest, the individual who will be given the opportunity to draw 50-GIRLS-50 is: (drum roll)...

AXEL MEDELLIN!

In the event Axel cannot take over the chores on the book, we will award the prize to MILX, Allan Otero, or Tommaso Renieri!

Thank you all for the time and effort you put into this. Also for the simple humanity and kindness you showed each other within the various threads of the 50-GIRLS-50 blog. I was as impressed by that as I was by the artistry of your entries.

Congrats to all.

Frank and Doug
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DAVEINATOR · Proper Dave Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 1275

Good Choice. Congrats Axel.

I personally liked MILX better. Axel is very clean like Frank but I didn't like his poses. I liked the grunge and girls better on MILX's submission. I hope both artists have long and succesful carrers.

Dave
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Nightcrawler86 · Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 1272 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

I completely agree with what Proper Dave said, and I think Medellin will make a great choice as well.

Congratulations to Alex Medellin!

Archangel · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 2624 Location: Canada

Congratulations to Axel.

Hang in there, Milx. Something good's gotta come out of this for you.
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Frank Cho · Monkey Boy King Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 3776

Milx, it was a very, very close call. We agonized over the decision for days.

But fear not, Doug Murray has another project in mind for you. He'll contact you soon.
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Adremmelech · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject:

Grats to Alex!
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milx · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 130 Location: Kuala Lumpur

Oh shit! I was reading the Image forum first, didn't saw this coming.

As much as disappointed I am that I didn't win (it's dream sci-fi-babe project!),
I'm very happy with the overall results, Axel won, I drew one of my finest sequentials (...with boobs) and definitely being here with supporters n art (boobs/arses) lover like you guys.

Thanks guys for the supports! and thanks Frank and Doug for amazing experience!