Here on the last day of 2015, I thought I would take a moment and look back at the year in blogging here at ThePulp.Net, and a brief look foward at what’s to come in 2016.
But before all of that, I want to note the passing of a number of pulpsters in 2015, including collectors Richard Clear, Ned Brooks, and Victor Berch, fictioneer Charles Boeckman Jr., and artists Murphy Anderson and Jon Arfstrom. Obituaries for each appear elsewhere on Yellowed Perils.
We welcomed John Olsen to our blogging rolls in late October. John’s long-running website, “The Shadow in Review,” disappeared when Comcast ended its web-hosting service. I hated the idea of John not being involved in the online pulp community, and invited him to consider writing a blog for ThePulp.Net. Happily he agreed, and That’s Pulp! debuted Oct. 30.
Watch for John’s upcoming reviews of The Shadow radio episodes, The Spider pulp stories, and reviews of other pulp-related movies, books and more.
Over on The Pulp Super-Fan blog, Michael R. Brown is coming up on his third anniversary as a blogger here at ThePulp.Net. For him, 2015 was his best year yet for readers. And 2016 won’t be any different. You can expect more of Michael’s profiles and reviews of pulp-related and New Pulp books in 2016.
As for me, Yellowed Perils had a variety of pulp-related posts, including extensive live coverage from PulpFest 2015 (I’m planning to do the same at PulpFest 2016, too), news, commentary, reviews, and more.
To give you a taste of 2015, I thought I would rundown the top five most popular posts this year at each of our three blogs. I hope you’ll click on the links and give them a read if you haven’t already. (If you have, why not take a few minutes and look through the archives for something you’ve missed.)
The most popular posts here on Yellowed Perils were:
- Pulp conventions for 2015 (Jan. 15, 2015)
- Who read the pulps in 1937? (Sept. 22, 2015)
- Pulp AdventureCon report (Feb. 24, 2015)
- Going back to Bonnett’s (April 21, 2015)
- Star War‘s forgotten pulp connection (Dec. 1, 2015)
On The Pulp Super-Fan blog, Michael Brown’s most popular posts spanned the run of his blog. Most popular were:
- Space operas of E.E. “Doc” Smith (May 25, 2015)
- Prince Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown (June 17, 2015)
- David Golemon‘s Event Group thrillers (June 18, 2014)
- Meet The Black Bat (July 9, 2013)
- Here come the bad guys: villain pulps (May 8, 2013)
As I mentioned earlier, John Olsen’s new blog, That’s Pulp!, came late in the year, so he’s had only nine posts since his blog’s debut on Friday, Oct. 30. But his most popular posts hint at what’s to come:
- The Spider’s Web: A serial in 15 chapters (Oct. 30, 2015)
- A Shadow radio adventure: “The Ghost of Captain Bayloe” (Nov. 6, 2015)
- Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe (Nov. 27, 2015)
- The Shadow‘s Christmas toys (Dec. 25, 2015)
- Perry Mason: novels #1 and #2 (Dec. 4, 2015)
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As for 2016, it will be the 20th anniversary of ThePulp.Net, so I have a few ways to celebrate in mind. Stay tuned; I’ll have more to say in the new year.
Meanwhile, have a very pulpy New Year!
