Artist Gloria Stoll Karn died July 23, 2022, at 98. I didn’t hear the sad news until shortly after PulpFest 50 began last week, and didn’t have a...
Category - Pulp Art
We need to clear things up, especially after the news that actor/director George Clooney has been linked to a potential Buck Rogers TV series. That guy wearing...
I was very sorry to see on Facebook just now of the passing of pulp art collector Robert Lesser on March 1, 2020. His collection of art filled Pulp Art:...
Continuing my “selling the pulps” series, this post turns our attention to postcards. The postcards featured below were mailed out by Street &...
Last week’s post looked at ads for Street & Smith Publications‘ pulp magazines that appeared in its movie-fan magazine, Picture Play. Those ads...
We usually think of pulp magazines as selling themselves — that their garish, often lurid covers splashed across newsstands were all it took to propel...
It’s easy to think of the pulp magazines as solitary items today — 70, 80, 90 or more years after they were for sale on newsstands — and...
George Lucas has made it very clear that the Star Wars series was heavily influenced by films of the 1930s and ’40s. But I don’t recall ever seeing...
Jon Arfstrom, likely the last surviving artist for the original Weird Tales, died Wednesday, Dec. 2. He was 87. Arfstrom got his start with fantasy...
AMAZING STORIES RETURNING: Late last week news began circulating that Amazing Stories, originally produced by Steven Spielberg, may be returning to television...