PulpFest 2021 is over a month past now, but you can partly re-live it through the reports and recordings that have been posted online.
If you couldn’t make PulpFest this year, you missed a fantastic weekend of pop culture programming, author interviews, buying and selling vintage collectibles and original art, and much more.
Hopefully, the links listed below will encourage you to make the trip to Mars, Pennsylvania in 2022 for PulpFest 50.
Read All About It!
- Bob Deis, co-editor in the Men’s Adventure Library book series, has a well-illustrated convention report at the Men’s Adventure Magazines and Books Blog. It includes a link to Wyatt Doyle’s YouTube video of their presentation on legendary artist’s model, pin-up girl, and actress, Eva Lynd.
- Lewis Forro, posting as “The Leader,” has some fun with his photographic review from PulpFest 2021 on his blog, The Leader’s Chronicles.
- Mike Glyer has posted about this year’s Munsey Award winner, Rich Harvey, at his award-winning File 770 blog.
- Bill Lampkin of ThePulp.Net — and others — posted photos from PulpFest to Instagram during the convention using #PulpFest2021. You can also view his photos on his blog, Yellowed Perils.
- Walker Martin‘s annual report on PulpFest is back at its usual spot this year. You’ll find it on Steve Lewis’ Mystery*File blog.
For Your Listening Pleasure . . .
- ThePulp.Net has posted audio recordings of fifteen PulpFest 2021 panels — totaling nearly 10 and 3/4 hours — on its website. They’re also available through its Pulp Event Podcast. You can listen to the podcast via Apple Podcasts; Castbox.fm; Amazon Music; and Spotify.
Although PulpFest 2021 may be over, there’s plenty of time to start planning to attend our 2022 gathering. The convention returns to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just north of Pittsburgh, from Thursday, August 4, through Sunday, August 7.
We’ll be celebrating our fiftieth summertime pulp con, as well as the centennial of Fiction House, the pulp magazine and comic book publisher, and the ninetieth anniversary of Popular Publications’ “Dime” magazines. We hope you’ll join us in Mars, Pennsylvania from August 4 – 7 for PulpFest 50!
It was three Shadows for the price of one at PulpFest 2021, with Cathy and Jim Dello standing next to our Shadow welcome banner. Sponsored by Heartwood Books and Art and designed by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin, our banner was based on George Rozen’s cover art for the July 1932 number of THE SHADOW DETECTIVE MONTHLY, published by Street & Smith.
One of the typewriters used by Shadow creator Walter B. Gibson was for sale in the PulpFest dealers’ room. It was available through Scott and Linda Edwards of Dearly Departed Books. It later sold for $725 in PulpFest’s Saturday Night Auction, held on August 21 in the convention’s programming room.
Closing out our post is Lewis Forro — creator of THE LEADER’S CHRONICLES — and the flying saucer that can be found in a small park located in the center of downtown Mars, Pennsylvania. Lewis and the 3000-pound UFO want you to “Keep Watching the Skies,” and get ready for PulpFest 50 coming to Mars from Thursday, August 4, through Sunday, August 7 in 2022!!!
