COLLECTIBLES COLUMN: Q&A with wrestling artist Schamberger on new style of artwork & industry response
Posted by flairwhoooooo on May 24, 2012
COLLECTIBLES COLUMN: Q&A with wrestling artist Schamberger on new style of artwork & industry response
By Michael Moore, PWTorch Collectibles specialist
In Brief: Kansas City
Bruiser Brody exhibited a star quality unlike any other wrestler – even if your only exposure to him was through 1980s wrestling magazines.
With his crazy eyes, wild hair, and immense size, Brody looked as tough and as dangerous as any human being on the planet. Just seeing his picture in Pro Wrestling Illustrated or The Wrestler made a young fan want to tear it out and hang it on his wall.
Longtime wrestling fan and artist Rob Schamberger has captured Brody’s mystique in an exceptional painting as a part of his Wrestling Champions artwork collection. The collection also includes fascinating abstract paintings of Harley Race, Owen Hart, Ric Flair, and many others.
In this exclusive interview with the Pro Wrestling Torch, Schamberger talks about how wrestlers have responded to his artwork, what types of artwork are available to collectors of all levels, what he has in the works and more.
Question: Wrestling as artwork is a pretty new concept; when did you start doing your pieces, and what got you started?
Schamberger: I started on this project about two months ago. A couple of years back I started work on a graphic novel about wrestling in Kansas City in the 1970s, for which I did a ton of research. I read all of the wrestling books I could come across, interviewed wrestlers, promoters and writers, and compiled a large collection of pictures. With my paintings, I had been doing subject matter based around 1950s and ‘60s girlie mags, but with a modern approach stylistically. I got as far with that collection as I wanted to go, so the obvious next thing to do after half-naked ladies was ‘rasslers.
Question: What was your first piece?
Missouri Wrestling Revival 
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