The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling by Aubrey Sitterson

And of course, the book is also available at bookstores, comic book shops, or your favorite online retailer, including Amazon. Read The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport by Aubrey Sitterson available. From the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot, this graphic novel. While supplies last you can get copies signed by myself and Chris from our friends at Collector’s Paradise.

A full list of credits can be found here. He also wrote and performed the sword & sorcery serial podcast SKALD from April 2015 to April 2018, without missing a single week. It’s the first-ever comprehensive history of professional wrestling in any medium, from the carnival days to the present, with individual chapters on wrestling in Mexico, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Aubrey has written comics for all of the industry’s top publishers Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse IDW, Oni, Dynamite and Viz. (all-in), and Japan (puroresu).At long last, it’s finally here: The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling! Co-created by Chris Moreno & me with colors by Len O’Grady, Allen Passalaqua, Brad Simpson & Jay Moreno and letters by Rus Wooton. The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport. Featuring legendary wrestlers like Bruno Sammartino, Hulk Hogan, and The Rock, and modern-day favorites like John Cena, Kenny Omega, and Sasha Banks, the book covers wrestling's progress from the carnival days of the Gold Dust Trio to the dominance of the WWF/WWE to today's diverse independent wrestling scene, and it spotlights wrestling's reach into Mexico/Puerto Rico (lucha libre), the U.K. It’s a hilarious, aggressively weird, willfully vulgar graphic novel detective story from noted reprobates Aubrey Sitterson (No One Left to Fight, The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling) and Tony Gregori (Deuce of Hearts, Karma Police). The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling is caption-heavy and dialogue-light, formatted like a documentary series with chapters focusing on different eras in the evolution of American pro.

Now, writer/podcaster Aubrey Sitterson and illustrator Chris Moreno form a graphic novel tag team to present wrestling's complete illustrated history. From the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot, this graphic novel history of wrestling features the key grapplers, matches, and promotions that shaped this beloved sport and form of entertainment.Īs a pop culture phenomenon, professional wrestling-with its heroic babyfaces and villainous heels performing suplexes and powerbombs in pursuit of championship gold-has conquered audiences in the United States and around the world.

The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling by Aubrey Sitterson