Masked wrestler pop culture and vintage Mexican monster media for over 25 YEARS!
I love the early wrestling masks, before the 4-panel design became pretty much the standard construction everywhere. This really nice shot of 60s masked standouts The Bolos, who were various wrestlers under even more various incarnations of the name depending … Continued
The greatest thing about collecting Mexican toys is the weird mutations and entirely aberrant lines of figures you find. Even if there were a hundred reference books and websites cataloging lucha figures (and there aren’t), we’d constantly be finding toys … Continued
While putting together the latest book, I realized twenty pages could have been dedicated to the horror institution that is “El Monje Loco” — part Cryptkeeper, part Zacherley, star of radio, newspaper strips, comic books, film and TV going on … Continued
This time it’s something I did use in the book, albeit in the pink and orange scheme. Here’s the much less psychadellic original line art for those of you who want something to color on your own. A confession here … Continued
Something I truly regretted cutting from the book — this time for rights clearance issues and reproduction quality — was a short feature on real life ring workers who played various zombies, mummies and even El Monje Loco himself. The … Continued
For the next three weeks I’m against crushing deadlines at the day job, but that doesn’t mean I’m not super dedicated to getting everyone’s book orders out ASAP, especially with how alarmingly slow the U.S. mail has gotten lately. I’m … Continued
Got a nice review from some zombie-obsessed folk over at the Mail Order Zombie podcast. I was really hoping to connect with a zombie film fan-base who was less familiar with Mexican cinema with this book, and I’m delighted to … Continued