Masked wrestler pop culture and vintage Mexican monster media for over 25 YEARS!
Carolina-based illustrator and wrestling title belt designer Jesse Justice is no stranger to the FPU faithful. Here’s a look at some of the roughs and design evolutions of the artwork he did for us for Rencor: Life in Grudge City. … Continued
In August, at the 5th annual Latino Comix Expo in Long Beach, I sat down with a superb array creative types to talk about our beloved lucha-heroes and where they stand in this current era of mega-budget big studio superhero cinema proliferation. … Continued
Loved by man and mummy alike, it’s here, the second-coming of Matt Wallace’s RENCOR: LIFE IN GRUDGE CITY! By popular demand the genre-blended love letter to buddy cop movies and classic lucha-heroes is now available in traditional print format. “Funny, bloody-knuckled … Continued
August 6th and 7th sees the renowned and ultra-diverse Latino Comix Expo return to the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA. We’ll be there hosting a panel centered on keeping lucha-heroes relevant in the era of billion … Continued
What has two rival luchadores forced to partner up to clean up the streets, a possibly fake mummy, a possibly real mummy, a Latina kick boxer in a lab coat, a crooked promoter, a crooked museum, bacon-wrapped hot dogs, over-aggressive … Continued
Matt Wallace‘s Rencor: Life in Grudge City is centered on rival técnico and rudo enmascarados forced to work together buddy-cop-movie-style, but what you’ll read below features neither of the leads — El Victor III and El Mil Calaveras III. Instead … Continued
Matt Wallace‘s Rencor: Life in Grudge City is now available for pre-order via Amazon! Matt’s fusion of buddy cop and ‘pareja increible’ tag team ring action joins Christa Faust’s Hoodtown on FPU’s exclusive shelf of enmascardo-infused hard-boiled fiction. PREORDER HERE … Continued
This positively incredible image won the internet this week, virally exploding after guys like me, Kevin Kleinrock of Masked Republic and Rafael Navarro posted it all over social. Alas, at the time, we didn’t know its origins, so I wanted to … Continued