PulpFest 50 ended on August 7, but you can partly re-live our Golden Anniversary gathering 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, 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 2023 for next year’s PulpFest. We’ll be back at the DoubleTree from August 3 – 6 for PulpFest 2023.
Read All About It!
- Let’s start things off with a con preview, rather than a con report. Pittsburgh’s NPR news station, 90.5 WESA, published this article on PulpFest 50 and the pulps the day before the convention began.
- Michael Brown offers up his thoughts on his first trip to PulpFest on his blog, The Pulp Super-Fan, at ThePulp.Net.
- CGC Forums has a PulpFest 50 report thread in the Pulp Magazines area where several members have uploaded photos from and posted comments about the convention.
- Lewis Forro, posting as “The Leader,” has some fun with his photographic review from PulpFest 50 on his blog, The Leader’s Chronicles.
- Ron Fortier at Airship 27 provides a look at his PulpFest 50 adventures, along with photos. Unfortunately, his travels to and from the convention weren’t as enjoyable as PulpFest 50 was.
- Mike Glyer has posted about this year’s Munsey Award winner, Rick Lai, at his award-winning File 770 blog.
- Bill Lampkin of ThePulp.Net — and others — posted photos from PulpFest to Instagram during the convention using #pulpfest50. You can also view his photos on his blog, Yellowed Perils.
- Walker Martin, one of the few who attended the first Pulpcon 50 years ago and continues to regularly attend PulpFest, provides his annual con report on Steve Lewis’ Mystery*File blog.
For Your Viewing and Listening Pleasure . . .
- Charlton 66 recorded a video report of PulpFest 50. Though he mostly discusses comics in his other videos, he devotes about 20 minutes of this video to PulpFest and the pulps. The link starts the video at his discussion of PulpFest.
- Meteor House has posted videos of Farmercon XVII panels at PulpFest 50 on its YouTube channel.
- ThePulp.Net has posted over 11 hours of audio recordings from most of the PulpFest 50 panels on its website. They will also be available through its Pulp Event Podcast. You can listen and subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts; Castbox.fm; Amazon Music; and Spotify.
- And, introducing PulpFest‘s YouTube channel. Our crack marketing team will be posting interviews and other content to our new YouTube channel in the coming months. To kick things off, we’ve posted the “Hemingway & Hammett: A Life In Parallel” panel from PulpFest 50. It features novelists Craig McDonald and William Patrick Maynard exploring the striking parallels in the lives and stripped-down writing styles of authors Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett. Subscribe today and stay tuned!
Spice Up Your Wardrobe with a PulpFest 50 T-Shirt!
One of the most in-demand items at PulpFest 50 was the convention’s Golden Anniversary t-shirt. We have limited numbers of the following sizes available: medium, XL, 2XL, and 3XL. Write to PulpFest chairman Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com for additional details.
What about Next Year?
Although PulpFest 50 may be over, there’s plenty of time to start planning to attend our 2023 gathering. The convention returns to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just north of Pittsburgh, from Thursday, August 3, through Sunday, August 6.
We’ll be celebrating the centennials of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Sport Story Magazine, Weird Tales, and the 90th anniversary of the Great Pulp Heroes. Please join us for “Chilling Sports and Great Heroes” at PulpFest 2023!
In the meantime, coming up in just a few short weeks is the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, bringing thousands of people together for 16 years. It will take place at the Hunt Valley Delta Marriott in Hunt Valley, Maryland from September 15-17. Click here to learn more.
Our featured image is a gallery of PulpFest banners from past years that welcomed attendees to PulpFest 50. Photograph by William Lampkin for “Yellowed Perils” at ThePulp.Net.
At PulpFest 50, we saluted the centennial of comic book and pulp publisher Fiction House. One of their best-remembered pulps was Planet Stories. The magazine’s well-executed covers — such as the September 1953 number, with cover by Frank Kelly Freas — make it a joy to collect. Freas was born 100 years ago on August 27, 1922.
