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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December 2021 — American Pulps Reading List
Here it is, the last American Pulps Reading List of 2021. This month’s reading list has a bit of a Christmas theme to it. But don’t worry, the stories have a lot more “Christmas Murder” than “Christmas Miracle” in them. Easy Death — Daniel Boyd ‘Twas the week before Christmas… that’s where the story starts,… Continue reading December 2021 — American Pulps Reading List
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