The Story Behind Elbow Drop!

First off I'll be the first to admit I'm a relapsed pro wrestling fan. I watched it on TV as a kid when Dick the Bruiser and BoBo Brazil were big attractions. As I got older I stopped watching, but got back into it decades later at the dawn of Hulkamania when I accompanied my wife to be, Jean, to a closed circuit broadcast of Wrestlemania 2. After that I began watching the weekly WWF programming as well as the other wrestling organizations (AWA. NWA, and several others). I was hooked again by this "only in America" created spectacle.
Elbow Drop! was one of the first designs I ever posted for sale. The image of a pro wrestler about to deliver his blow to his downed opponent was originally done as a storyboard frame sample. The art was created from some photo reference I found in a pro wrestling fan magazine. I'm not certain who the person delivering the impact was , but I do remember the guy laying on the ground was Jerry The King Lawler-probably from his Memphis wrestling days. Of course I changed the wrestling opponents to my own characters. I drew the art in pencil, made a copy of that and colored it with markers.
I scanned the art years later into Photoshop, added the text, "Elbow Drop!" and posted it as a t-shirt design on my newly made CafePress store, Saytoons, in late October of 2006.
Much to my surprise with little or no promotion the shirt began to sell. Probably sold five or six before Christmas of that year. Eventually when I opened my Saytoons store on Zazzle,  Elbow Drop was the first design posted on there.
I have done a few other wrestling shirt designs since then and plan to make this a series that will feature the best known finishing moves that wrestlers use.

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