As we’ve been reminding you for pretty much all of the last year, “Summer’s AMAZING Pulp Con” will take place from Thursday, July 27, through Sunday, July 30 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry — just north of Pennsylvania’s “Steel City.”
You can join PulpFest by clicking the Register for 2017 button on our home page. And if you’re not from the Pittsburgh area, don’t forget to book a room at the DoubleTree. They’re going fast! Plus, you only have until July 5 to get a room at the special PulpFest rate.
PulpFest 2017 will be here before you know it and then, like all good things, it will be over. But all is not lost . . . .
Michael A. Hatt of Montgomery, Michigan will be hosting the 2017 Dum-Dum, the annual gathering of Edgar Rice Burroughs enthusiasts. It will be held at the Quality Inn and Suites in Coldwater, Michigan from Thursday, August 3 through Saturday, August 5, with a farewell breakfast planned for Sunday, August 7. The convention’s guests of honor will be Martin Powell, a writer for ERB, Inc, and story board and comic book artist Bo Hampton.
Also appearing at the convention will be Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. president, Jim Sullos along with the ERB team of Cathy and Tyler Wilbanks. Jim will update the convention attendees with the latest projects and events emerging from Tarzana. Bob Zeuschner, the author of the detailed bibliography EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: THE BIBLIOGRAPHY, and author Mike Chapman will also be guests at the convention.
Edgar Rice Burroughs vacationed in Coldwater for almost twenty years. It was the summer home to his wife’s family, the Hulberts. In celebration of the area’s history, all members of this year’s Dum-Dum will receive a copy of a special limited edition of BEYOND THIRTY, partially written by Burroughs in Coldwater.
We hope you enjoy the 2017 Dum-Dum. It will certainly help ease your pop culture needs and get you through the next year, as you await the arrival of PulpFest 2018.
(The logo for the Coldwater Dum-Dum was drawn by Oscar Gonzales, created by Casey Daws based on an idea by Michael Hatt, and used with the permission of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. The aero submarine “Coldwater” was originally drawn by Gonzales for the online comic strip, “The Lost Continent.”)
