There was a period during my elementary school years where my in-class doodling depicted biplanes swarming around one another, much like you often see gnats doing. But...
Here’s a story on the Library of Congress Blog about how the library is preserving its collection of pulp magazine covers. The interiors of the magazines were...
Sadly, another pulp fictioneer is gone. Frederik Pohl died Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, at the age of 93. His granddaughter Emily Pohl-Weary reported his passing on Twitter...
Before he found fame from crime fiction novels and films, Elmore Leonard was a pulp magazine author. He died Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, following a stroke earlier in the...
While leafing through the February 2013 issue of Vanity Fair* over the weekend, “The Proust Questionaire,” a regular feature of the magazine, caught my eye...
From Los Angeles Times‘ Jacket Copy: ‘Conan the Barbarian‘ goes to the prestigious Ransom Center… Best known for the noble barbarian brought to...
Sometimes “oops” can mean collectibility. Take, for instance, the famous “inverted Jenny” postage stamp. The stamp’s upside down frame...
Bill Colby-Newton wants to start a “Doc Con North” in the Twin Cities of St. Paul/Minneapolis. He’s penciled in June 2014 as a tentative date, and has...
It’s not one of the icon covers from Street & Smith’s The Shadow pulp. But ever since it turned up on the paperback racks in 1974 on the cover of...
Updated: Sept. 8, 2013. Since I wasn’t able to attend PulpFest this year (again), I’ll be looking for other pulp fans’ reports and posting links here...