PulpFest 50, so named to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Pulpcon, took place Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 4-7, 2022, in Mars, Pa., just outside of Pittsburgh. Below are links to the Pulp Event Podcast audio recordings of 15 sessions — more than 11 hours of pulp programming — from PulpFest 50.
Pulp presentations
- Fifty years of PulpFest
- ThePulp.Net’s William Lampkin moderates a panel discussion reflecting on 50 years of pulp conventions, from 1972’s first Pulpcon to 2022’s PulpFest 50. The panel consists of pulp convention attendees from most decades: The Pulpster editor emeritus Tony Davis; pulp historian Don Hutchison; New Pulp creator Sara Light-Waller; pulp collector Walker Martin; and PulpFest chair Jack Cullers.
- Nick Eggenhoffer: dean of western illustrators
- Artist and pulp art historian David Saunders examines the career of Nick Eggenhoffer, dean of western illustrators.
- Popular’s chameleon: Dime Mystery
- Ed Hulse, publisher at Murania Press, and professor Garyn Roberts consider Popular Publication’s chameleon, Dime Mystery.
- Robert E. Howard and Fiction House
- Morgan Holmes discusses Robert E. Howard and Fiction House publishers.
- Philip José Farmer’s Secrets of the Nine
- 2022 Munsey Award-winner Rick Lai moderates a discussion of science-fiction Grand Master Philip José Farmer‘s Secrets of the Nine books, with authors Win Scott Eckert and Frank Schildiner. The presentation was part of FarmerCon 17, held in conjunction with PulpFest 50. FarmerCon celebrates the legacy of author Philip José Farmer.
- Forty years of The Savage Society of Bronze
- Jennifer DiGiacomo, editor of the early Doc Savage fanzine The Savage Society of Bronze, and author and pulp historian Will Murray discuss the pulp fanzine on its 40th anniversary.
- Bringing the pulps to the 21st century: the writers
- Author William Patrick Maynard moderates a panel consisting of Christopher Paul Carey, Ron Chandler, Noir Hayes, Craig McDonald, and Will Murray, writers who are bringing pulp-style fiction into the 21st century.
- George Gross: from pulps to paperbacks
- The co-editors of the Men’s Adventure Library, Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle, discuss artist George Gross, whose career ranged from the pulps to men’s adventure magazines to paperbacks.
- The hard-boiled west
- Ed Hulse, publisher at Murania Press, and author and pulp historian Will Murray discuss hard-boiled fiction in the western pulp magazines.
- Fiction House comics
- Author Jim Beard surveys the comic books released by pulp-magazine publisher Fiction House beginning in the late 1930s, including Jumbo Comics, Jungle Comics, and Planet Comics.
- Planet Stories and the romance of space
- New Pulp creator Sara Light-Waller discusses Fiction House’s science-fiction pulp Planet Stories and the romance of space.
- An update from Meteor House
- Meteor House illustrator Keith Howell moderates a panel discussion on the current projects at the publishers of science fiction and fantasy connected with the late science fiction grand master, Philip José Farmer. On the panel are Meteor House’s Mike Croteau, Win Scott Eckert, and Paul Spiteri.
- Influence or coincidence? Hemingway’s fiction and Hammett’s hard-boiled pulp
- Authors Craig McDonald with William Patrick Maynard ponder the links between Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett in both life and literature.
- Bringing the pulps to the 21st century: the artists
- Artists Sara Light-Waller and Mark Wheatley discuss bringing pulp-style artwork into the 21st century.
- The universe according to Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Christopher Paul Carey, director of publications at Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.; Cathy Mann Wilbanks, vice president of operations at ERB Inc.; and author Win Scott Eckert discuss the company’s projects on its 100th anniversary.
ThePulp.Net’s coverage
- Yellowed Perils: PulpFest
- TPN editor William Lampkin attended PulpFest 50 and posted daily photos from “the summer’s pulp convention.”
- ThePulp.Net’s Facebook page
- In addition to our regular posts, you’ll find updates from PulpFest here and be able to comment on them (if you’re a Facebook member — if not, you should still be able to read the page).
- ThePulp.Net’s Instagram feed
- Look at photos posted live from PulpFest on TPN’s Instagram feed. Search for #pulpfest50.
