Masked wrestler pop culture and vintage Mexican monster media since 1996
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
Couple of stills that actually made it into the book albeit in truncated or small form. The above is a detail from a Robo de las momias de Guanajuato lobby card, a nice shot of Mil Mascaras dropkicking two zombies … Continued
We featured some shots of this fotomontaje back-up story from the May 1964 issue of Lucha Libre magazine in the new book. Now here it is in its entirety. CLICK ON EACH IMAGE TO EXPAND, WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Special thanks to … Continued
If you read the back page of the new book, I promise all sorts of supplementary content, mainly the stuff that didn’t make the final page count. I had more Mexican zombie stuff than a mere single ZOMBI MEXICANO could … Continued