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Simple, Fast search of the FictionMags Index
Simple, fast search of the FictionMags Index. It’s finally here. https://pulpflakes.com/fmisearch/ The FictionMags Index (FMI) is the biggest online index of English language fiction published in periodicals. Search the FMI by author or artist name, magazine title or look for a specific issue by date or issue number. Tips and tricks While search tolerates partial……
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Negatives, Dragon’s Blood and Acid. How line drawings were reproduced
I’ve always been interested in all aspects of pulp production including how they reproduced line drawings in the pulps. The same process worked for stylistically very different artists like Hannes Bok, Virgil Finlay, Edd Cartier, Nick Eggenhoffer, Arthur Rodman Bowker, Dorothy Flack and John R. Flanagan. Read on and find out how they did it.……
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Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday Season to you and yours
This blog will be on a break till next year. Best wishes and see you then.
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Carbon Copy: The Secret Home Life of an Authors’ Typist
You’ll learn here how one girl’s spare-time work at home became a full-time job—a “specialty” that she finds very satisfactory MARIAN PEHOWSKI “COMANCHE yells split the air as Dan Drew peered around the clearing before the shack. Suddenly, bang ! Bang! Pow—” An Indian raid or a double murder, it’s all in a day’s work……
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Whatever happened to the pulps?
Richard Hill Wilkinson was one of those authors who filled out the pulps. He turned out about a hundred and fifty stories for the pulps under his own name, starting with the Clayton group’s Cowboy Stories and Ace-High, switching horses to Street and Smith’s Love Story and Romantic Range when Clayton shut shop and hopped……
Thank you, Walker. That was really great. I love talking about pulps. Based on your’s, Sai’s, James Reasoner’s, and a…
DKS, I recommend that you attend Pulpfest (pulpfest.com) in Pittsburg, Pa. during August 1-4. You will find many western pulps…
Walker, I’ve seen another place, maybe on the Rough Edges Blog where you said you really admired Frank C. Robertson’s…
I discovered Frank C. Robertson in the 1920’s Adventures many years ago and enjoyed all his work. His many serials…
This is an excellent list of authors and with the exception of a couple names, they are among my favorites…