Earlier this week, the underdog Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the reigning NFL champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, in Super Bowl LV. Tampa’s victory demonstrates how difficult it is for a North American professional sports team to repeat as champions.
It just so happens that one of the last professional sports teams to capture a national championship for two years running happens to be from Pittsburgh, PulpFest’s adopted home. The city’s National Hockey League affiliate, the Pittsburgh Penguins, brought home the Stanley Cup to Pennsylvania’s Steel City in both 2016 and 2017.
Back in the 1970s, the Pittsburgh Steelers were back-to-back Super Bowl champions not once, but twice. Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates have never managed the feat, although they’ve won the World Series five times since joining the National League in 1887.
With all the winning going on in Pittsburgh, why not sign on with another of the city’s winners — PulpFest? You can join the winning team by becoming a PulpFest sponsor.
Your link and logo will appear on our homepage for an annual website sponsorship of $150. Six-month sponsorships are also available for $80.
You can also sponsor the convention’s welcome banner, proudly displayed at the main entrance to each year’s convention. Your name will be displayed at the top of our 2021 banner, welcoming visitors to PulpFest. Another alternative is to sponsor our membership badges. Your name or logo will appear on every badge, acknowledging your contribution. Or become a hospitality suite sponsor for a contribution of $25 or more. You’ll be listed on a poster in the PulpFest con-suite at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry.
All of our sponsors, both large and small, will be thanked via several posts that will run on our homepage and social media sites.
Other opportunities to contribute financially to PulpFest include advertising in our annual program book, THE PULPSTER, or donating free giveaways or door prizes.
Join the PulpFest team! If you or your organization would like to discuss a PulpFest sponsorship or advertising opportunity, please contact marketing director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
Known best for his cover art for the pin-up magazines and science fiction pulps, Earle K. Bergey was also a prolific contributor to the sports and love pulps, including the Fall 1951 issue of THRILLING FOOTBALL. Although Bergey worked for a variety of publishers, his primary market was Ned Pines’ Standard Magazines. For the “Thrilling Group,” he created cover art for CAPTAIN FUTURE, EXCITING SPORTS, STARTLING STORIES, THRILLING ADVENTURE, THRILLING LOVE, THRILLING SPORTS, THRILLING WONDER STORIES, WEST, and other titles. Bergey was also a leading cover artist for Pines’ Popular Library paperbacks as well as for Avon Books, Lion Books, and Pocket Books.
In honor of the 120th anniversary of Earle Bergey’s birth on August 26, 1901, PulpFest has invited the artist’s grandson, Joshua David Bergey, and Jack Raglin, a leading authority on Bergey’s close contemporary, Enoch Bolles, to speak at this year’s convention. We hope you’ll join PulpFest 2021 on Saturday evening, August 21, for “Love in the Shadows: The Art of Earle K. Bergey and Enoch Bolles.”
