The wait is over! Here in the pages of Queen of the Ring is a selection from the heretofore secret stash of forty – count 'em! – years worth of Jaime's wrestling drawings that have now been nudged out into the open and collected here by Jaime's fellow Fantagraphics-based cartoonist, Katie Skelly, who here dons the editor's hat. Jaime's comments – transcribed from a December 2020 interview with Skelly – are interspersed throughout this hardcover volume's 128 pages, which present these drawings in high resolution, full color reproductions on a nice, heavy, flat white stock – including those, in the minority, that were rendered simply in black and white, allowing for a good look at Jaime's drawing processes. One early takeaway from looking over these drawings is that many of the static portraits evince a strong '70s-Kirby feel... more insights are surely to come!
