With his noir artwork on the cover of a long list of great hardboiled books, Glen Orbik was the ultimate pulp cover artist. Here’s some of Orbik’s amazing noir artwork. It’s really in a league of its own. I was writing the American Pulps December Reading List and one of the books had a Glen… Continue reading Noir Artwork of Glen Orbik: Pulp Artists
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Noir Art: The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post has been around since 1821. And in those 200 years (off and on), they’ve given us some great crime fiction and amazing illustrations. Originally I was going to just post an article about James R. Bingham, an illustrator who worked with The Saturday Evening Post often in the 50s, and illustrated… Continue reading Noir Art: The Saturday Evening Post
Beach Reads for Hot Girl Summer—Pulp Art
Hot girl summer is upon us (whatever the hell that means), and we’re getting into the spirit. To keep our social media going I have folders upon folders of pulp paperback covers. Many from pulpcovers.com — check them out if you haven’t before. Anyway, with Summer upon us, I went to our “Summer Folder” and… Continue reading Beach Reads for Hot Girl Summer—Pulp Art