Is This Guy For Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman by Box Brown - ★★★★

A fantastic graphic novel about Andy Kaufman, focusing on his childhood love of television, wrestling and Elvis, as it grew into an adult love of Elvis wrestling and television. incredibly detailed retelling of the wrestling stories, featuring multiple matches with Jerry Lawler, and even exciting matches with Jimmy Foxx, who's now on the Ben Maula YouTube show. Apparently he actually wrestled against coffin and later became his friend in the wrestling world. amazing to see how Andy transformed wrestling into what it became in the 1980s when huge stars like Mr. T whole Cogan, Donald Trump and others joined wrestling and didn't quite ruin that it was fake. Also interesting to hear about the early days of wrestling kayfabe making the audience hot and of course keeping it all secret that it was really just an act more like dancing than fighting. A great, great graphic novel about coffin. I've ordered the author's other graphic novels about Tetris and Andre the Giant that I hope to read soon recommended

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