Sunday, February 12, 2006

Locas y luchadoras

Late last night I realized that my love affair with Mexican wresters started with the Jaime Hernandez Locas stories from Love and Rockets. (Offical Fantagraphics site here.)

One of the main characters, Maggie, has an aunt, Rena TitaƱon, who is a former wrestling champion. Rena's brother, El Diablo Blanco, is also a wrestler (and provided the name for my wireless network at home).

Love and Rockets is very well written and illustrated. I can't really think of anything else that compares. The stories run the gamut from absurd to moving - e.g., "The Death of Speedy" explores the effects of gang violence on the community. Here are some links if you are curious.

Meanwhile - look - wrestlers!



Another great one here:

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2004/locas/wrestle.jpg

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