Earl Norem (1924 – 2015) is the bridge between men’s adventure magazines and comic book art. The guy painted for everything pop culture; men’s mags, comic books, pulp paperbacks, movie posters, toy packaging, and even programs for the New York Yankees. He was born on April 17, 1923, in Brooklyn, […]
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When we first started American Pulps, we were kicking around ideas for our zine. Like I’ve said in previous articles, we both knew we wanted to write pulp fiction, but we wanted to “niche down” a bit, with pulp fiction being a broad catchall genre. We were at John’s house […]
Not a lot of artists can say they’ve been commissioned to paint over 200 movie posters. John Solie’s artwork covers a wide range of genres from comedy, action, Blaxploitation, and porn. But he’s no one-trick pony, Solie has also been commissioned to illustrate for The Saturday Evening Post, TV Guide, […]
I may or may not be late in the game here, but I just binged Lupin on Netflix and I loved it. It took me two sittings to burn through the French Heist/Mystery/Thriller starring Omar Sy. If you haven’t heard of it, here’s the trailer: I have to admit, I […]
Victor Prezio (1924-1976) was a very prolific pulp artist best known for his work illustrating Men’s Adventure Magazines. Unfortunately, when it comes to biographies of Vic Prezio, that’s about it. He was very prolific, created eye-popping Men’s Mag and pulp paperback covers, and died at the age of 52 in […]
It’s March, a month with a few birthdays to celebrate here at the Pulps. Matt’s birthday is in early March, John’s is later in the month, and one of American Pulps’s birthdays is March 5th. I say “one of,” because we re-branded as American Pulps on July 4, 2018, and […]
Samson Pollen (1931-2018) started his career in the 1950s illustrating pulp paperback covers. But it was for the Men’s Adventure Magazines that his career really flourished. His evocative style with dutch angles and almost painting in a forced perspective give a real sense of action and 3-D feel to his […]
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) is one of the most famous painters from the United States, finding himself in the pantheon of artists such as Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Singer Sargent. That’s probably because Norman Rockwell was illustrating for the countries biggest publications from 1913 to the 1970s. He […]
As a writer, I both love and hate reading books by Donald Westlake. I love reading them because they are so well written, entertaining, and usually very funny—the man was the best at the craft. I also hate reading those books for the very same reasons, pure jealousy. We’ve written […]
We were going to start this last month, being January and all, but life got in the way. Anyway, we’re trying something new here at the Pulps, a monthly reading list. The first month went about as well as our “dry January” did, but hey, here’s February. Gunshine State — […]