These mashups of Cthulhu and the “Peanuts” comic strip gave me a chuckle. So I thought I would share them.
They’re by Baz, “a game artist and tee designer enthusiast.” You can see his Cthulhu creations and more at his Tumblr site.
A hat-tip to Tim Knight over at the Hero Press blog for posting this the other day.
PRESIDENTS AND THE PULPS: I’ve read where several presidents enjoyed reading the pulps. Theodore Roosevelt is said to have read Adventure, which makes sense. Harry S Truman was also a fan of it.
Woodrow Wilson supposedly enjoyed Black Mask. And I’ve seen indications that Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have enjoyed the detective pulps.
This list at Buzzfeed notes that Barack Obama is an avid collector of comic books, including Conan the Barbarian.
He’s about the right age to have read the paperback reprints back in the ’70s, too. Can we count him as a pulp fan?
SMART-ALECK INFLUENCED: Evan Lewis writes a guest post at Trace Evidence, the blog of the editor of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Lewis’ latest story “Mr. Crockett and the Longrifle” appears in the May 2014 issue of that digest.
He discusses how smart-aleck characters from the Doc Savage paperbacks and pulp fictioneers such as Dashiell Hammett, Frederick Nebel and Norbert Davis influenced his writing style.
Lewis also writes Davy Crockett’s Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West blog.
