A place specializing in building theme parks for the Chinese also had this idea of a Jack Kirbyesque comic book adventure arena for a traveling show of wrestlers. It was a pretty good idea, a traveling tent show kind of deal specializing in bringing in huge size hick audiences. One of the things I did while unemployed 6 months ago.
Whew! You scared me! These were done a while ago...
ReplyDeleteThose Chinese! They love their Kirby!!!
Did they make it or what???
There's still nothing like "The King..." Great job, Mr. G. The lower image makes me think of one of the stories that Rick Schmitz came up with ... one that had three huge sort of Mayan-inspired demigods coming to life and breaking out of a stone temple/prison ... The scale of the head piece does a lot of that, and the word balloon ... V'ry, v'ry neat.
ReplyDeleteThis wasn't a pitch to make a thrill exhibit in a Chinese park. This professional wrestler had a background in bringing themed championship cage matches to the Boonies and making a lot of money. I hope they did make it. It gave me a picture of that sort of old timey road show, carnival, entreprneur
ReplyDeleteEllis, I love the raw energy of the bottom piece, the color, the composition, sparks that little pre-reading part of my brain that remembers how exciting it was to just stare at comic book covers as a little kid.
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