Continuing from last week’s The first blind detective in modern fiction Clinton Holland Stagg, the creator of the first fictional blind detective, was born on 22 November 1888 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey to William E. Stagg and Annie Stagg (neé Holland). There is no record of his father’s profession at the time of his… Continue reading Clinton H. Stagg – Author, Script Writer, News Reporter
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The first blind detective in modern English fiction
October is Blindness Awareness Month when the National Federation for the Blind (NFB), holds outreach activities to create opportunities for people to meet blind people living in their communities and to realize that blind people are vital contributing members of society. My small contribution to this is to get you to meet the earliest blind… Continue reading The first blind detective in modern English fiction
Walker Martin: Collecting and Reading Black Mask
[In a recent mail thread with Walker Martin, I was joking about how his set of Black Mask would have kept him safe from the coronavirus, if only he hadn’t sold it. He could have read every issue while saying to his family – “See, a Mask a day keeps you safe.” Because he’s a nice guy,… Continue reading Walker Martin: Collecting and Reading Black Mask
REVIEW: Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine
Among the pulp genres, the love pulps had the highest circulations and the least discussion. This has been true for a long time. The early pulp fanzines I’ve seen were from the 1930s, Fantasy Fan and Phantagraph among them, and they focused on science fiction/fantasy. Later pulp fanzines covered the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs,… Continue reading REVIEW: Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine
Three interviews with pulpsters – Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak
Three interviews with pulpsters who would go on to write great movies. These interviews are taken from the University of California Press’ Back Stories series. Leigh Brackett: Journeyman Plumber Interview by Steve Swires She wrote that [The Big Sleep] like a man. She writes good. Howard Hawks, quoted in Hawks on Hawks Leigh Brackett… Continue reading Three interviews with pulpsters – Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak
Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)
Here are a few things to keep your mind off the current circumstances for a while: Ohio man donates a collection of comics, paperbacks, pulps and magazines to University of South Carolina. They needed two 26 foot trucks to move it. https://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2019/05/uofsc_receives_major_comic_book_collection.php Northern Illinois University to digitize ~4000 dime novels and story papers from Street… Continue reading Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)
Early SF story: The Human Brick by Mary C. Francis
It’s been a while since i posted some fiction on this blog. So here’s a story i read about when i was glancing through The Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of The Scientific Romance in the Munsey Magazines 1912 – 1920, by Sam Moskowitz. The author, Mary Cornelia Francis, was born in Ohio,… Continue reading Early SF story: The Human Brick by Mary C. Francis
Photos of Walt Coburn’s house in Tucson, Arizona
Walt Coburn was a famous western author in the pulps. He started his career as a writer when his lifetime goal of being a cowboy was ended after an accident. With a little encouragement from author Robert J. Horton, who had heard Coburn’s stories earlier and realized his talent for storytelling, Coburn parlayed his start… Continue reading Photos of Walt Coburn’s house in Tucson, Arizona
What is a pulp?
Recently had a disagreement about what constitutes a pulp magazine. Thought you might find the discussion interesting. For the canonical definition, I’m going to refer you to David Saunders’ PulpArtists website. Follow this link, and come back once you clicked through all the next links there. Back? All right, keep in mind that i’m not… Continue reading What is a pulp?
Rafael DeSoto covers on my new illustrator spotlight blog
Started a new blog on illustrators sometime ago but haven’t found time to do more posts :-). Hopefully this post makes up for the gap between posts. https://illustratorspotlight.blogspot.com/2020/01/rafael-desoto-art-teacher-illustrator.html