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 — […]
Pulp Fiction
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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 […]
#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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Usually when we tell people we write pulp fiction the person we’re talking to will ask ‘What is Pulp Fiction?’ This happens so much we wrote an article about it on our old website when we used to go by the name of Shit Show Pulps. Ironically, that article was […]
I once made the acquaintance of a man who told me he never watched a movie that was made before 1977 (because Star Wars debuted in ‘77). This shithead went to film school and he just wrote off everything made during the Golden Age of Hollywood. There’s a word that […]