PulpFest 2023 ended on August 3, but you can relive our latest 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 2024 for next year’s PulpFest. We’ll be back at the DoubleTree from August 1 – 4 for PulpFest 2024.
Read All About It!
- A few weeks before the start of PulpFest 2023, reporter Roman Hladio contacted Mike Chomko to talk about pulps and PulpFest. Check out Roman’s excellent post, “PulpFest 51 celebrates ‘heroes’ of the genre, from sports to fantasy to pop culture” at NEXTpittsburgh, “the must-read Pittsburgh publication about the people driving change in (the) city and the innovative and cool things happening (there).”
- CGC Forums has a PulpFest 2023 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.
- Mike Glyer has posted about this year’s Munsey Award winner, Richard Bleiler, at his award-winning File 770 blog.
- Bill Lampkin of ThePulp.Net — and others — posted photos from PulpFest to Instagram during the convention using #pulpfest2023. You can also view his photos on his blog, Yellowed Perils.
- “Martin Walker” offers his report from PulpFest 2023 at Mystery*File. (Stalwart con reporter Walker Martin came down with COVID following the con, so he was unable to write a post this year.)
For Your Viewing and Listening Pleasure . . .
- Let’s start things off with a con preview, rather than a con report. Pittsburgh’s CBS affiliate KDKA asked PulpFest marketing and programming director Mike Chomko to appear on their afternoon talk show, Talk Pittsburgh, a few days prior to PulpFest 2023. Please note that KDKA mistakenly announced that 2023 was our 50th anniversary, rather than the 51st PulpFest. The interviewer is KDKA’s Heather Abraham, the host of the show and co-host of Pittsburgh Today Live.
- ThePulp.Net has posted over 11 hours of audio recordings from PulpFest 2023 on its website. They will also be available through its Pulp Event Podcast. You can listen and subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or Castbox.fm.
- ThePulp.Net has also posted a video of a walk through the PulpFest 2023 dealers’ room on its YouTube channel.
- And don’t forget about PulpFest’s own YouTube channel. Our video directors, Craig McDonald, and Sara Light-Waller, will be posting interviews and other content to our YouTube channel in the months ahead. Stop by and check out Craig’s very popular series of videos on the great pulp heroes and a whole lot more, including recent videos on legendary Black Mask editor, Joseph T. Shaw, and new videos on The Spider. Click here and here to watch them.
Subscribe today to our YouTube channel and stay tuned! Click here and sign on the dotted line. It’s free!
Spice Up Your Wardrobe with a PulpFest T-Shirt!
We’re running low on our PulpFest 50 T-shirts, celebrating the convention’s Golden Anniversary. We have limited numbers of medium, 2XL, and 3XL shirts available for $25 postage paid in the USA via a padded priority mail envelope. Write to PulpFest chairman Jack Cullers at jassways@woh.rr.com for additional details.
What about Next Year?
Although PulpFest 2023 may be over, there’s plenty of time to start planning to attend our 2024 gathering. The convention returns to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just north of Pittsburgh, from Thursday, August 1, through Sunday, August 4. We’ll also have early dealer set-up on Wednesday evening, August 3.
We’ll be celebrating the 90th anniversaries of Operator #5, Secret Agent “X,” and the Spicy pulps, plus the centennial of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land That Time Forgot and the 150th anniversary of the birth of legendary Black Mask editor Joseph T. Shaw. Please join us for “Spice, Spies, Shaw” and more at PulpFest 2024!
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.
