Gene Christie has been named the winner of the 2024 Munsey Award. Nominated by the general pulp community, Gene was selected by previous winners of the Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards.
The Munsey is a fine art print created by David Saunders and published by Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press. It is presented annually to an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community. The award was presented by 2010 Munsey winner, Mike Chomko, standing in for Richard Bleiler, last year’s Munsey winner.
Our 2024 Munsey Award winner, Gene Christie, has extensively studied and indexed the magazines of the pulp era, especially those published by the Frank A. Munsey Company. Never too busy or tired to help, Gene has volunteered his time, knowledge, and editorial abilities, contributing to projects published by Adventure House, Off-Trail Publications, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, and others. He annually volunteers at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, in addition to proofing their program book, and has been a long-time attendee at other pulp-related conventions. In conjunction with Black Dog Books, he has compiled and edited several rare and previously unreprinted works, including Cornell Woolrich’s The Good Die Young, George Allan England’s The Empire in the Air, Seabury Quinn’s Demons of the Night, Murray Leinster’s The Silver Menace, and the excellent Munsey anthologies The Space Annihilator and The People of the Pit. He also served as the editor for Black Dog Books’ Talbot Mundy Library. A researcher of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and adventure fiction for over thirty years, Gene offered PulpFest 2019 attendees a wonderful presentation on Robert Hobart Davis, considered by many to be the greatest editor of the pulp magazine era.
Congratulations to Gene for this most-deserved award.
Others nominated for our 2024 award included John Betancourt, John DeWalt, Henry G. Franke III, Chris Kalb, Steve Lewis, William Patrick Maynard, Gary Phillips, Sheila Vanderbeek, Chuck Welch, Howard Wright, and Dan Zimmer.
Nominations are now being accepted for our 2025 Munsey Award. To make a nomination for this prestigious award, please send a short paragraph or two explaining your reasons for the nomination to PulpFest marketing and programming director Mike Chomko. You can reach Mike at mike@pulpfest.com or via regular mail at 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542.
Previous winners of the Lamont, Munsey, or Rusty Award are not eligible for the award. Click here for a list of our previous winners.
The deadline for nominations is June 8, 2025. Please click here for additional details. Thanks for your help.
The Munsey Award was created in 2009 by artist David Saunders, the son of legendary illustrator Norman Saunders. Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press produced a limited signed and numbered edition of the award. The PulpFest Organizing Committee is indebted to both David and Dan for their generous support of our community.
