I’m excited for this new addition to our artist interview series! Darius Chanthavong creates compelling portraits in multiple medias that have been catching my eye all year, most notably this bloody yet determined Roman Reigns piece called Fortitude. Darius answered our questions just a few days before Roman Reigns’ heartbreaking leukemia announcement, but instead of asking for an update, I thought it poignant to read the thoughts of an authentic fan and talented artist written…
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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…
For the second interview in our fan artist series, cruiserweight aficionado and all around awesome gal Justine Colla (who you may perhaps know on Twitter as @pastasauca) answers our questions about art and wrestling, and talks about some of her favorite pieces. This series will read best, I think, if you’re admiring the dramatic contrast of aesthetics and approaches from one artist to the next, so be sure, also, to check out our first interview with Punkrockbigmouth and…
I’m excited to be launching an ongoing series of interviews with wrestling fan artists on The Spectacle of Excess. To kick off the series, the fabulous Punkrockbigmouth has given us her wise insight about wrestling as art and art about wrestling. In that wrestling fandom is a microcosm of the bigger picture, PRBM is our great political cartoonist. I asked her five questions and to show and tell about her three favorite wrestlers to draw…
This is the preface to an interview I tried to pull together with a Las Vegas wrestler I loved dearly back in the early days of his career at the storied and funky Ultimate Wrestling Federation. My written interviews are challenging–elsewhere in my projects I have tenured professors who are still struggling to get written interviews to me a year later–so it’s no surprise to me that as busy a man as Funnybone never got…
Русев Удря, Русев Мачка. I just noticed the original post about it turned three years old last month. That might have been the day I fell on the icy driveway, I don’t know. In other words, I was thinking about other things. Death and such–I was in quite the Bray Wyatt mood all month. But it’s a day worth noting for The Spectacle of Excess. It’s the post that got us on the IWC map.…
I am so excited to present to you this essay by guest blogger LB Teufel about the origins of The Golden Lovers and a wild match that I now need to go pore over, as I have recently caught the Kenny Omega pheromone and know the thirst and awe of his divinity, oh yes! Enjoy this cool essay, and let’s hope we hear more from LB in the future. –Andrea In August 2012, El…
Greetings friends! I have emerged from the abyss with the fourth in my series of posts about the art of the fabulous Punkrockbigmouth. Check parts I, II, and III if you’re interested, and be sure to check out all of PRBM’s work on punkrockbigmouth.tumblr.com. The term “cartoon satire” doesn’t structure quite right for an -ism, but let’s get over ourselves. Not all -isms can logistically take on the suffix, and I’m just making all this…
I’m taking a break from Twitter for a few weeks. I’ll tweet this out on the blog’s account and stuff, but I took the Twitter app off my phone and I’m going to avoid @carnycorporate as much as I can for as long as I can stand it. This unprecedented break for your Twitter junkie here was inspired by the dragging of my beloved Ivelisse over her comments about depression. I’d include her tweets, but…