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
Tag: American Pulp Art
October 2021 — American Pulps Reading List
Yeah, yeah, it’s been a minute. I know. Our last reading list post was in June, and with this being the last week of October we barely made it this month. Truth be told, we were recently interviewed by @slowheavymetalmusicplaying on a new app called Famera. It was a great time, a lot of fun.… Continue reading October 2021 — American Pulps Reading List
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
Pulp Artists: Margaret Brundage The Queen of Pulp Pinup Art
Bio Margaret Brundage (1900-1976), the Queen of Pulp Pin-Up Art is best remembered as the cover artist for Weird Tales during the 1930s, a time many would consider the magazine’s golden age. She studied fashion design at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts but eventually dropped out. One of her classmates at the Chicago Academy… Continue reading Pulp Artists: Margaret Brundage The Queen of Pulp Pinup Art
Pulp Artists
The first publishers with the brains to realize the average person does in fact judge a book by its cover were the people who published pulp paperbacks. Below are the artists who grabbed your attention at the newsstand and sold countless magazines, paperbacks, and straight-up sleaze. Pulp art sold a hell of a lot of pulp… Continue reading Pulp Artists