Category: Pulp Magazines

Pulp Art Exhibitions The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA is exhibiting some of the work of pulp artist Gloria Stoll Karn on February 10, 2018 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. More information here: https://www.nrm.org/event/gloria-stoll-karn-pulp-romance/ Santa Claus in Science Fiction Tor.com has an article about Santa Claus in the comics and science fiction digests: https://www.tor.com/2017/12/19/depictions-of-santa-claus-in-science-fiction-magazines-and-superhero-comic-book-covers/ Book… Continue reading Pulp News Roundup – Pulp Art Exhibitions, Santa Claus , Book recommendations from Michael Dirda

Beautiful art – a retro blast from the past This book takes readers back to an era without television or radio, when magazine covers featured original art designed to lure readers into picking up and buying them. From the early 1900s to the early 1950s, pulp magazines were the popular entertainment media of choice for… Continue reading Review: Art of the pulps

Attended Pulpfest this year and took a few photos which I thought were worth sharing. All thanks to the wonderful work by the organizing committee – Jack Cullers, Barry Traylor, Mike Chomko, Chuck Welch, Sally Cullers and William Lampkin and a supporting cast of thousands :-). This was a tough year, with a changed venue… Continue reading Pulpfest 2017 – photos

Thought I’d begin this year with a review of Blue Book, another of my favorite magazines. It’s easy to overlook it, most of the covers are not spectacular. However, in the 1930s Blue Book was definitely better illustrated than Adventure magazine, and generally had high quality fiction spanning many genres – science fiction and humor… Continue reading Issue Review – Blue Book magazine, January 1936