Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Ultimate Championship Edition

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Step into the ring at Glorious Wrestling Alliance, the universe's least-professional wrestling company. The Great Carp, an amphibious wonder, is feeling the weight of his championship. Miranda Fury has donned a mask to smash wrestling's glass ceiling. And Gravy Train is desperate for a new gimmick, but it's hard when you're shaped like a giant gravy boat.

Collected in colossal full color for the first time, Josh Hicks's cult-hit comic covers identity, anxiety, and leg drops. In this hilarious love letter to the surreal theater of pro wrestling, the insecure grapplers of GWA lock up, throw things, throw each other, and occasionally curl up into little balls.

Reviews

"[A] delightful story about characters beating their self-doubt with metaphorical steel chairs. It's a mix of silly fun with gentle introspection. Wrestling fans will get a superkick out of this." - AIPT Comics

-- (10/7/2021 12:00:00 AM)

"Josh Hicks has created an epic story that will entertain wrestlers of all ages." -Children's Literature

-- (9/20/2022 12:00:00 AM)

"Spine-crushing fun."--Kirkus Reviews

-- (9/1/2021 12:00:00 AM)

"This campy graphic novel is a knockout."--School Library Journal

-- (10/1/2021 12:00:00 AM)

Author Bio

Josh Hicks is a cartoonist from Wales, UK. Born in 1991, he was raised in a small ex-coal-mining village and has since moved to a city that is twenty minutes away by train. He has been making comics since 2015, working with anthologies and independent publishers in the UK and self-publishing his own minicomics. Glorious Wrestling Alliance is his debut full-length work. When not making comics, Josh is usually thinking about them. He also works in animation as an art director, animator and storyboard artist. Josh Hicks is a cartoonist from Wales, UK. Born in 1991, he was raised in a small ex-coal-mining village and has since moved to a city that is twenty minutes away by train. He has been making comics since 2015, working with anthologies and independent publishers in the UK and self-publishing his own minicomics. Glorious Wrestling Alliance is his debut full-length work. When not making comics, Josh is usually thinking about them. He also works in animation as an art director, animator and storyboard artist.