{"id":20029,"date":"2025-05-27T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=20029"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:30:58","slug":"roy-v-hunt-a-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2025\/05\/27\/roy-v-hunt-a-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Roy V. Hunt: A Retrospective’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently picked up a copy of Roy V. Hunt: A Retrospective<\/em>, a very nicely done volume from the First Fandom Experience<\/a> group. This book focuses on this fan, artist, and illustrator that many may not be aware of.<\/p>\n

\"Roy<\/a>Roy V. Hunt<\/a><\/strong> (1914-86) was mainly a science-fiction fan and an amateur artist. He started doing work for several fanzines<\/a>, but he was able to do some pulp covers and even book covers, mainly for small presses like Fantasy Publishing Co. and Gorgon Books.<\/p>\n

I first saw his work when I got a copy of ERB-dom<\/a><\/em> #80 with his colorful cover of Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/a><\/strong>‘s War Chief character.<\/p>\n

The book comes in at around 150 pages on glossy, heavy paper. We get a nice overview of his life and learn that he mainly worked as a curator and artist for the Colorado State Historical Museum in Denver. Thus, his art career was something he did on the side rather than his main career.<\/p>\n

I get a bit of an “outsider” vibe to his artwork, which is not a bad thing. His later work is much more refined. Most of it is pen-and-ink, and I would have liked to have seen more color artwork, but he didn’t do much of that.<\/p>\n

The heart of the book is chapters of his work for fanzines, the Work Projects Administration during the Depression, pulps, and books. He did both covers and interior artwork, and I think most of this work has been reprinted here. The last chapter focuses on the chapbooks and portfolios of heroes and villains, such as Sherlock Holmes<\/a><\/strong> and Fu Manchu<\/a><\/strong>, that he produced toward the end of his life.<\/p>\n

An additional chapter goes into the technology of fan artwork, explaining what mimeograph, silk screening, offset lithography, and more are. I think many of us hear these terms without really understanding what they mean. And we get an index of his work as well.<\/p>\n

This is a nicely done volume by the First Fandom Experience group, led by David Ritter<\/a><\/strong>. This group has also put out some other good books that I recommend people take a look at. I picked up another of their volumes recently and am looking at getting some of their other works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently picked up a copy of Roy V. Hunt: A Retrospective, a very nicely done volume from the First Fandom Experience group. This book focuses on this fan, artist, and illustrator that many may not be aware of. Roy V. Hunt (1914-86) was mainly a science-fiction fan and an amateur artist. He started doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan looks at First Fandom Experience's 'Roy V. Hunt: A Retrospective.'","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[857,56,1,14],"tags":[871,568,2264,2263],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-20029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork","category-fanzines","category-pulps","category-review","tag-artist","tag-cover-artwork","tag-first-fandom-experience","tag-roy-v-hunt"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2025\/04\/roy-v-hunt-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-5d3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20029"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20268,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029\/revisions\/20268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20029"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=20029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}