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2012 is well under way, so the pulp convention season is starting up again.<\/p>\n2012 is well under way, so the pulp convention season is starting up again.<\/p>\n
If you haven’t noticed, we keep an updated listing of upcoming Pulp Events on the front page of ThePulp.Net. It covers conventions, sales shows, exhibits and other pulp gatherings.<\/p>\n
The 33rd Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show<\/a> in Mission Hills, Calif., was March 25. It was my first time to attend. (We were in town for a family event, but I managed to zip over for about an hour Sunday morning.) As Laurie Powers<\/strong> noted<\/a>, there were few pulps for sale this year. I didn’t find anything on my wants-list, but I did pick up the second volume of The History of the Science Fiction Magazine<\/em>, by Mike Ashley<\/strong>, (I’ve had the first volume since the late ’70s) and a 1918 issue of The Popular Magazine<\/em>. For fans of New Pulp, the second annual Pulp Ark gathering<\/a> in Batesville, Ark., is April 20-22.<\/p>\n Then the next two weekends bring back-to-back pulp gatherings: the 12th Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention<\/a> near Chicago, and the 16th Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale<\/a> near Toronto.<\/p>\n While the Toronto show is mostly sales, the Chicago gathering includes a full schedule of panel discussions and pulp-related films, in addition to the dealers room.<\/p>\n June brings the annual Howard Days<\/a>, celebrating pulp fictioneer Robert E. Howard<\/strong><\/a> in his hometown of Cross Plains, Texas.<\/p>\n PulpFest<\/a>, the successor to the granddaddy of pulp gatherings Pulpcon, returns in early August in Columbus, Ohio. Like the Windy City convention, PulpFest features a full slate of programming, socializing and a dealers room.<\/p>\n A lot of the fun of collecting pulps is meeting other pulp fans. I’m sure if you’ve attended a pulp gathering you’ll again be thinking about it this year. If you haven’t, don’t make the mistake of missing out. There’s bound to be one near you. If not, make plans to travel to one. You’ll enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2012 is well under way, so the pulp convention season is starting up again. If you haven’t noticed, we keep an updated listing of upcoming Pulp Events on the front page of ThePulp.Net. It covers conventions, sales shows, exhibits and other pulp gatherings. The 33rd Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show in Mission Hills, Calif., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[24,17,21,22,23],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doc-con","category-events","category-pulpcon","category-pulpfest","category-windy-city"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-rY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe Orange Pulp exhibit<\/a> in New York wraps up next week. Online accounts say the number of paintings on display is limited, but still worth seeing if you are in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2012\/04\/doc_con_2012.png?resize=200%2C98&ssl=1\" "\\"Doc")
<\/a>Then wrapping up the pulp convention season, Doc Con<\/a> returns for its 15th year on Oct. 19-20. We’re hoping to take the con to the next level for this anniversary celebration. We’ve move it from a host’s home to a convention room and a suite at a local hotel. We’re in the planning stages now. And there’s still time to reserve your room. Watch the con’s Facebook page<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n