Year after year, there are countless individuals and organizations that help to make PulpFest such a great event. The PulpFest organizing committee wants to thank everyone for their invaluable assistance in helping to make PulpFest 2023 a success. We could not have done it without you:
Our front desk staff – Marge Coiner, Sally Cullers, Samantha and Eli Cullers, and Jack Cullers.
Our panelists and presenters – Chris Adams, Jim Beard, John Betancourt, Christopher Paul Carey, Jack Cullers, Tony Davis, Bob Deis, Jennifer DiGiacomo, Alex Daoundakis, Wyatt Doyle, Win Scott Eckert, Henry G. Franke III, Morgan Holmes, Ed Hulse, Chris Kalb, Craig McDonald, Will Murray, Michelle Nolan, Nicholas Parisi, Gary Phillips, Garyn Roberts, David Saunders, Karl Schadow, Mark Schultz, Darrell Schweitzer, Don Simpson, Mark Wheatley, and Cathy Mann Wilbanks.
Many thanks to Mike Chomko and Scott Edwards for the time they devoted to assembling this year’s auction. Also, a big thank you to David and Regie Powell, as well as Phil Nelson, for their work before, during, and after our PulpFest 2023 auction. Thanks also to our auctioneers John Gunnison and Joseph Saine and to our auction staff, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, and Bill Lampkin.
We want to thank our technical staff – William Lampkin – and our behind-the-scenes help – David Saunders and Dan Zimmer. We’d certainly be remiss if we forgot to mention our contributors to pulpfest.com — Norman Bean, Mike Chomko, Kenneth Grant, William Lampkin, Sara Light-Waller, Craig McDonald, William Patrick Maynard, Laurie Powers, Leslie Silberberg, Derek Starr, and Emile C. Tepperman, IV. Additionally, we also received letters from Clark Savage, Jr. and Richard Wentworth that we posted to our website.
Thanks must be extended to Mark Boris, Kate Knecht, Erin Nelson, and the rest of the terrific staff at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry.
The organizing committee would also like to thank the people who helped to create The Pulpster #32 – editor William Lampkin, assistant editor Peter Chomko, publisher Mike Chomko, Minuteman Press Kettering, plus contributors Kurt Brokaw, Michael Chomko, Tony Davis, Henry G. Franke III, Roger Hill, William Lampkin, Sara Light-Waller, Craig McDonald, Will Murray, Michelle Nolan, Darrell Schweitzer, and Jess Terrell. Many thanks also go out to the magazine’s advertisers – The Burroughs Bibliophiles, Cleveland ConCoction, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Fantasy Illustrated, First Fandom Experience, Flying Pony Studios, For the Love of All Things Edgar Rice Burroughs, Heartwood Books & Art, Heritage Auctions, Künstler Enterprises Ltd., Larque Press (Digest Enthusiast), Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Meteor House, Mike Chomko Books, New Texture and the Men’s Adventure Library, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, Recoverings, Redfield Arts Audio, The Shadowed Circle, Stark House Press, The Pulp Fan, ThePulp.Net, Vanguard Publishing, Jerry J. C. Veit, Weird Tales, Inc., and the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention.
A special thank you to artist Mark Wheatley for his work on our “Chilling Sports” postcard and to Rick Akers and Heritage Auctions for sponsoring our 2023 welcome banner.
Many thanks to the nominators and the Lamont Award, Munsey Award, and Rusty Hevelin Service Award winners who helped to select the winner of this year’s Munsey, Richard Bleiler. Congratulations to Richard and to all of the nominees for our 2023 award. Thank you to 1997 Lamont Award winner Walker Martin for presenting this year’s award, to Mike Chomko for reading Richard’s acceptance speech, and to Paul Herman for delivering the award to Richard.
We’d like to thank the following organizations for the books and other material that were donated to PulpFest for distribution to our members or to serve as door prizes: Dustin Wright and Chaosium Inc., Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Jim Gerlach and ERB Books, Gordon Van Gelder and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Meteor House, Mike Chomko, Books, Curt Phillips, Phil Normand of Recoverings, and Matt Moring and Steeger Books.
We would also like to the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for loaning the convention their sound system. Thanks also to our website sponsors, Jim Gerlach and ERB Books, Jess Terrell and the For the Love of All Things Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mike Chomko Books, and ThePulp.Net.
Thanks must also be extended to Adventure House, Chris and David Kalb of Age of Aces Books, Mark Alvarado, Books From the Crypt, Brenner’s Collectable Books, Brick Pickle Media, Henry G. Franke III for The Burroughs Bibliophiles, Christopher Paul Carey, Nick Certo, Ray Walsh of Curious Book Shop, Scott & Linda Edwards of Dearly Departed Books, Jennifer DiGiacomo, DreamHaven Books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Doug Ellis & Deb Fulton, Flinch! Books, Jim Emerson of Futures Past, George Hagenauer, Rick Hall, Heartwood Books & Art, Mark Hickman, Ed Hulse, Franz Kraljic, Craig McDonald, Bob McGeeney, John McMahan, Peter Macuga, Emanuel Maris, Tom Martin, Mary Nagy of Mechyu Publications, Meteor House, Mike Chomko Books, Phil Nelson, Bob Deis & Wyatt Doyle of New Texture, Xene and TED Otting, Mike Parsons, Laurie Powers, ThePulp.Net, Garyn & Virginia Roberts, Rick Santman, David Saunders, Darrell Schweitzer, Tom Skemp, Steven Spilger, Debra Reynolds of Sunbury Press, Terry’s Comics, Tim’s Books, Anthony Tollin of Sanctum Books, and John Wooley for sponsoring this year’s pizza night at the DoubleTree.
Many thanks to Steve Ericson, Martin Grams, Jeff Harper, Todd McDevitt and New Dimension Comics, Curt Phillips, and the conventions, bookstores, comic and collectible shops that helped to promote our show by distributing and displaying our advertising materials. We should also mention the websites, newspapers, and other media outlets that promoted PulpFest throughout the Pittsburgh area, in particular Roman Hladio and NEXTPittsburgh and Littsburgh: Celebrating Literary Pittsburgh. Also, many thanks to Allante Walker, Associate Producer of Talk Pittsburgh and host Heather Abraham for inviting Mike Chomko to talk about pulps and PulpFest on KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh.
Finally, thank you as well to the dealers, attending members, and supporting members of PulpFest 2023. It was due to your encouragement and support that our convention was successful. We hope to see all of you in the coming year — along with a good many newcomers — for PulpFest 2024.
We’ll be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Spicy pulps, Operator #5, and Secret Agent X, as well as the 150th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Black Mask editor, Joseph T. Shaw. All this, plus ERBFest and FarmerCon XIX at PulpFest 2024. Please join us from August 1 – 4 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania for “Spice, Spies, and Shaw.”
If we’ve neglected anyone, please accept our apology and our gratitude. Write to Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com and the oversight will be corrected.
Our Chilling Sports image was adapted by William Lampkin from The Phantom Detective for January 1934, with cover by Rafael M. DeSoto, and Thrilling Sports for Winter 1947, with cover by Rudolph Belarski. Additional artwork is by Mark Wheatley.
William Lampkin also adapted H. J. Ward’s original cover art for the August 1940 issue of Spicy Mystery Stories for our “Spice, Spies, and Shaw” webcard. Many thanks to Dan Zimmer for the scan of the painting.
To help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Black Mask‘s Joseph T. Shaw, we’ve released a short film called PulpFest Salutes Joseph T. Shaw. You’ll find it on the PulpFest YouTube Channel by clicking here.
While you’re there, please subscribe to our YouTube channel for more short films by Craig McDonald, author of The Mothman Menace, the second of the continuing adventures of Zana O’Savin. Watch for more videos by Craig in the near future, as well as the work of artist and writer Sara Light-Waller.
Here’s the direct link to our new Joe Shaw video: https://youtu.be/SJTuA3jSwKg.
