Been years since I drew this character, but here’s a brand new illustration of Big Head, better known as the Mask to the public. This is NOT based off the Jim Carrey film, which honestly I can’t even watch anymore. This is based off the more violent and gory comics that inspired the films, which are most likely the most underrated comics of all time.

Unlike the Jim Carrey film in which the Mask was portrayed as a wacky “superhero,” the comic version was violent vigilante. The title the Mask actually referred to the mask itself and not the character it unleashed, and the mask itself actually had multiple users. Within these stories the mask would find it’s way to troubled people who were down on their luck and had pent up aggression towards the world around them. The mask would essentially turn them into powerful gods and give them the power to unleash that anger on the world. Some users were real criminals while some like Lt. Kellaway were more like violent anti-heros.

The comics had a theme of when an innocent joke went to far. The characters would lash out at the world around them, but sometimes catch themselves hurting those close to them, and the drama would drive them into a state of terror. I really hope with the success of R-rated films like Deadpool that we may one day see a more faithful adaptation of the Mask comic, heck I’ll even help fund it.