Queen of the RIng

Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings by Jaime Hernandez 1980-2020 by Jaime Hernández
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Queen of the Ring is a collection of Jaime Hernandez's wrestling drawings.

I'm a relatively recent convert to Love & Rockets and women's wrestling has been a part of Jaime Hernandez' tales from the beginning so I pre-ordered this as soon as I became aware of it.

Like the title indicates, this is a collection of Jaime Hernandez's women's wrestling drawings from the past forty years with some background comments from him. Make no mistake, these aren't today's fitness model wrestlers. These ladies could stomp the shit out of you.

Some of the wrestlers will look familiar to Love and Rockets fans, although I didn't notice Rena Titanon in the collection. Jaime depicts them in a variety of poses, many times with 1970s wrestling magazine trade dress or captions. It was like looking at my dad's 1970s wrestling magazines through a Love & Rockets lens.

One thing that I really like about this is that the reproduction is so good that you can see the individual marks from the colored pencil and magic marker on some drawings. Yeah, I'm a geek.

If you like Jaime Hernandez's wrestling oriented stuff in Love & Rockets, Queen of the Ring is a must-buy. Five out of five stars.

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