Tag: Joey Janela

April 3, 2018 /

The next artist in our interview series creates beautiful, mesmerizing wrestling portraits and T-shirt designs. After you read insight from Alex Mahoney, please take a look at the first wrestling artist two interviews (here & here) as well, as now that we are on number three, we are really start to see the range of aesthetic and purpose in wrestling fan art . . .   Spectacle of Excess: Why is wrestling art? And why does…

April 30, 2017 /

I’ve been trying to figure out how to write this post for quite a while. This is deeply personal and highly sensitive, the sort of thing I’ve learned I’d best keep my trap shut about on the interwebz (lolol). But in light of recent events, I’ll just cut to the chase here: circa 1989-90, when I was in eighth and ninth grade, I had an intense, aching crush on Marty Janetty. Marty Janetty was my…

April 10, 2017 /

I am thrilled and honored to present this guest post by Tom Breen, from whom I very much hope we will see more in the future. It was Tom who just a couple months ago turned me onto Joey Janela, the indie talent whose brilliant carny antics have reinvigorated my love of professional wrestling in a major way. Tom articulated so much here about a wrestler whose work I’m just scratching the surface of how…