Updated: April 24, 2014.
As Walker Martin mentioned in last Thursday’s installment of “3 pulp questions,” Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is this coming weekend, April 25-27.
It’s not the first pulp convention of the year, but it is the first of the two big annual events (the other, of course, being PulpFest in August).
Windy City, which will be held at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center near Chicago, boasts 150 dealer tables, several panel discussions and films, plus an art exhibit featuring art from the western and detective pulps and paperbacks. Windy City also plans auctions for Friday and Saturday evenings. Saturday’s auction is dedicated to The Shadow, with pulps, books and other collectibles.
The con ends with New Pulp Sunday, a slate of panel discussions focusing on modern genre fiction.
If you’re keeping tally, the 35th annual Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show (what used to be known as the Mission Hills show) was held in March in Glendale, Calif. A couple of weeks ago, the 59th annual Michigan Antiquarian Book & Paper Show was held in Lansing. Neither of those are strictly pulp conventions, but they often can be good sources for pulps.
After Windy City, Girasol Collectibles hosts the 18th Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale in Toronto, Ont., on May 10. Fans of Robert E. Howard gather in Cross Plains, Texas, on June 13 and 14 for Robert E. Howard Days.
Then the next weekend, June 19-22, the Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship Convention will be held in Fargo, N.D. Burroughs fans also get together from July 31-Aug. 2 in Bryan, Texas, for the annual Dum-Dum.
PulpFest anchors the summer from Aug. 7-10 in Columbus, Ohio.
On Sept. 27, Kinsman, Ohio, celebrates Edmond Hamilton & Leigh Brackett Day.
Doc Con XVII, the gathering of Doc Savage fans, will be held Oct. 17-19 in Glendale, Ariz., a suburb of Phoenix.
Rounding out the calendar is Pulp Adventurecon on Nov. 1 in Bordentown, N.J.
While it’s not a convention, the Gotham Pulp Collectors Club continues to meet at 1 p.m. the second Saturday of each month at the Jefferson Market Library in Manhattan.
Please keep an eye on the Pulp Events listing, which appears on the right-hand side of most interior pages at ThePulp.Net. We try to keep it updated with the latest information.
Of course, if you have a pulp event or know of one not listed, please let us know so that we can help get the word out.
