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 art. After Men’s Mags declined… Continue reading The Wild Pulp Art of Samson Pollen
Category: Pulp Fiction
Castle in the Air – Book Review
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 about Westlake’s work before, and… Continue reading Castle in the Air – Book Review
February 2021 – American Pulps Reading List
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 — Andrew Nette We’re big fans… Continue reading February 2021 – American Pulps Reading List
Sticking it to the Man: Counterculture Pulp and Pop Fiction
Let’s face it. It’s 2019 going on 2020 and people are pissed off. It seems the only thing we can all agree is that we disagree about everything. It’s because of this anger in the world that Andrew Nette, aka Pulp Curry and Iain McIntyre’s new book Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture… Continue reading Sticking it to the Man: Counterculture Pulp and Pop Fiction
Femme Fatale Friday
#Noirvember is officially upon us, so we figured we’d celebrate with a little Femme Fatale Friday fun. Here’s some Film and Neo-Noir Femme Fatales and the movies in which they’re most deadly. We mentioned a few of these movies in a previous post and we’re planning some other Noirvember themed articles as well so stay… Continue reading Femme Fatale Friday
Horror Pulps and Weird Tales
A while back one of our former Instagram followers announced his displeasure that we were posting art from Men’s Adventure Magazines. “There’s more to pulp fiction than manly man magazines” he said. He then listed horror pulps like, Weird Tales and Eerie Stories before unfollowing us and leaving our lives forever. If he only stuck… Continue reading Horror Pulps and Weird Tales
Pulp Art Reference Models
If you follow our Instagram page you’ve probably seen some of the Gil Elvgren reference pictures next to the completed work we put up time to time. For the longest time I’ve been curious about the unnamed models who’s faces adorn the pulp paperbacks and vintage calendars we still look at fifty-some-odd years later. Like… Continue reading Pulp Art Reference Models
Community Spotlight: Martin Ellison
We’ve got another American Pulps Spotlight where we take a person from the American Pulps community and interview them. We have so many talented people in our community and we want to give props where props are due. This week it’s Martin Ellison a pulpy pen and ink artist, illustrator and oil painter. Tell us… Continue reading Community Spotlight: Martin Ellison
Prohibition
The Volstead Act January 17, 1920 that was the day the Volstead Act (the 18th Amendment) went into effect. Like ObamaCare, that wasn’t the official name of the National Prohibition Act. It was nicknamed after Andrew Volstead a Congressman from Minnesota who introduced the bill. I’m going through a few books and recreating some Prohibition… Continue reading Prohibition
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
These are some of our favorite Men’s Mag covers. They usually have a shirtless man sometimes accompanied by a woman in varying states of undress getting attacked by a wild animal in some desolate location. It’s really everything you want. You don’t need to read the story, you already know, dude’s fucked. There’s no way… Continue reading Weasels Ripped My Flesh