{"id":8874,"date":"2019-08-12T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2022-06-19T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T00:23:30","slug":"art-of-the-pulps-an-illustrated-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2019\/08\/12\/art-of-the-pulps-an-illustrated-history\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/08\/art-of-the-pulps.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8874]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8892\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/08\/art-of-the-pulps-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"'The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History'\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/08\/art-of-the-pulps-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/08\/art-of-the-pulps-768x864.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/08\/art-of-the-pulps.jpg 889w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a>There have been a few anthology works that have looked overall at the artwork produced for the pulps. The most recent \u2014 and I think the best \u2014 is <em>The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History<\/em>, edited by <strong>Doug Ellis<\/strong>, <strong>Ed Hulse<\/strong>, and the late <strong>Robert Weinberg<\/strong>, all of whom are long-time fans and collectors of pulp artwork.<\/p>\n<p>It was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idwpublishing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IDW<\/a> in 2017. It contains 12 chapters, each focused on a different area of the pulps and its artwork, with sections in each chapter focused on a certain theme, author, or type of character. Each of these chapters are written by different authors, all experts in that topic: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/authorlauriepowers.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laurie Powers<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Will Murray<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulpartists.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Saunders<\/a><\/strong>, and others.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As the book is all about artwork, we get lots of it. Artwork varies in size from full-page covers reproductions, down to 3- by 5-inches and a few sizes in between. And we get some interior artwork as well.<\/p>\n<p>We get a forward and an intro on the birth of the pulps. Each chapter has a good write up covering that period, with excellent artwork to illustrate it. The chapters include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adventure pulps, including focuses on <strong>Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/strong> and the covers to <em>Adventure<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Crime and detective pulps, with focuses on gang and hard-boiled detectives<\/li>\n<li>Western pulps, including Northwest pulps<\/li>\n<li>Aviation and war pulps, plus zeppelins and submarines.<\/li>\n<li>Sports pulps<\/li>\n<li>Love and romance pulps, with focuses on editor <strong>Daisy Bacon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Weird menace pulps or horror pulps<\/li>\n<li>Science fiction and fantasy pulps, including <em>Weird Tales<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hero and villain pulps, with focuses on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/the-links\/theshadow\/\">The Shadow<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/the-links\/docsavage\/\">Doc Savage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Spicy pulps<\/li>\n<li>Pulp artists, with focuses on <strong>Norman Saunders<\/strong> and <strong>Walter Baumhofer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pulp authors, with focuses on <strong>H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong> and <strong>Robert E. Howard<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is an afterward on the death of the pulps and the rise of paperbacks, which in the minds of many &#8220;replaced&#8221; the pulps, including having similar cover artwork<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the volume is a good index, art credits, and other acknowledgement.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed this book. There is so much work that I know was passed over, and there could be further examinations on various artists and areas that I think they could have doubled the size and still had to leave stuff out. Maybe a second volume? A DVD companion with more artwork? I have a few other books focused on pulp artwork, but this one is the best yet, and twice the size as any of the others that I have. So get this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a few anthology works that have looked overall at the artwork produced for the pulps. The most recent \u2014 and I think the best \u2014 is The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History, edited by Doug Ellis, Ed Hulse, and the late Robert Weinberg, all of whom are long-time fans and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8892,"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 Pulps: An Illustrated History.' #pulpmags #art","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":[857,39,14],"tags":[568,911,851],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-8874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork","category-non-fiction","category-review","tag-cover-artwork","tag-doug-ellis","tag-ed-hulse"],"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\/08\/art-of-the-pulps.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-2j8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874","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=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8904,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions\/8904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}