{"id":8817,"date":"2019-07-22T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=8817"},"modified":"2023-06-26T08:42:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T12:42:54","slug":"the-art-of-the-pulp-magazines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2019\/07\/22\/the-art-of-the-pulp-magazines\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of the pulp magazines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Illustration'<\/a>An area that I haven’t gotten into yet with this blog is the artwork used for pulp magazines. Over the decades that the pulps existed, a great deal of artwork \u2014 good and bad \u2014 was produced.<\/p>\n

The covers were the main means for selling the magazines, and the pulps also had interior black and white artwork. When I was reading about science fiction as a kid, I remember seeing a lot of covers of pulp sf magazines, including works by Frank R. Paul<\/strong>, Virgil Finley<\/strong>, and others. They always captured my imagination, with crazy aliens, weird scenes, and strange aircraft or spaceships.<\/p>\n

In recent years, I’ve seen not just general works on pulp artwork, but more volumes focusing on individual artists. One big source for some of this is Illustration<\/a><\/em> magazine, which has run articles on various pulp artists in its issues.<\/p>\n

Among the artists featured in Illustration<\/em> are Frederick Blakeslee<\/strong>, Allen Anderson<\/strong>, Graves Gladney<\/strong>, Rudolph Belarski<\/strong>, Tom Lovell<\/strong>, John Newton Howitt<\/strong>, and others. There are several I would love to see covered. And there has been works from others on artists such as Margaret Brundage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Illustration Press has also published volumes on several artists, including Walter Baumhofer<\/strong>, H.J. Ward<\/strong>, Norman Saunders<\/strong>, and Rafael DeSoto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As noted, the pulps had cover artwork, but also interior artwork, which is sometimes done by the cover artists, sometimes other artists.<\/p>\n

I should be fair and note that there are also artists who have done cover artwork for the pulp reprints who have also made an impact, such as James Bama<\/strong>, Robert Bonfiles<\/strong>, George Gross<\/strong> (he also did pulp artwork), Peter Caras<\/strong>, Lee Brown Coye<\/strong>, Jim Steranko<\/strong>, Frank Hamilton<\/strong>, and many others.<\/p>\n

So I hope over to do more postings on some of the pulp artwork books that I’ve been able to obtain. I would love to see more attention paid to some of these artists who have been somewhat over looked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An area that I haven’t gotten into yet with this blog is the artwork used for pulp magazines. Over the decades that the pulps existed, a great deal of artwork \u2014 good and bad \u2014 was produced. The covers were the main means for selling the magazines, and the pulps also had interior black and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8832,"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 the art of the pulp magazines. #pulpmags","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":[857,1],"tags":[1010,622,1009,860,579,878,988,1014,858,326,1013,1008,254,993,862,1007,1011,1012,253],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-8817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork","category-pulps","tag-allen-anderson","tag-frank-hamilton","tag-frederick-blakeslee","tag-george-gross","tag-graves-gladney","tag-h-j-ward","tag-illustrated-press","tag-illustration-magazine","tag-james-bama","tag-jim-steranko","tag-john-newton-howitt","tag-lee-brown-coye","tag-norman-saunders","tag-peter-caras","tag-rafael-desoto","tag-robert-bonfiles","tag-rudolph-belarski","tag-tom-lovell","tag-walter-baumhofer"],"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\/2019\/07\/illustration-59.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-2id","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817","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=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16570,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions\/16570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}