Back in the early seventies, Jeffrey Catherine Jones drew a wrestling match between two women. I can't recall now if it was part of his "Idyl" series that ran in National Lampoon, or part of the similar "I'm Age" in Heavy Metal. I have never seen it online anywhere. I used to have it in hard copy, but I haven't seen it in probably thirty years. Which is not to say I don't still have it; I stumbled across a copy of Battling Girls a few weeks ago that was almost as old.
(If you don't know Jones's work, you should Google him. He did a lot of comics and paperback covers in the seventies, then walked away from commercial work to pursue fine art. He died last May.)
I should refer to Jones with feminine pronouns, since he underwent gender reassignment. He did that fairly late in hs life, long after his art and illustration career was well-established. The Jones whose work I sought and purchased was sill living as a man, and I still tend to think of him that way. I apologize if anyone was offended by my seemingly insensitive choice of words.
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