One of the highlights of PulpFest is the convention’s program book, The Pulpster. For over thirty years, a complimentary copy of this great publication has been provided free of charge to all PulpFest members. It is also available for sale through Bud’s Art Books, Cold Tonnage Books, and Mike Chomko Books.
Although The Pulpster reflects the themes of each year’s PulpFest, it is open to a wide range of articles concerning pulp magazines, collecting, genre fiction, illustrative art, and other popular culture topics. Each issue has a circulation of 450 – 500 copies, reaching a serious core of collectors, readers, writers, and others.
Be a big part of PulpFest 2025 by placing an advertisement in this year’s issue of The Pulpster.
The magazine’s advertising rates are very reasonable: color back cover – $200; inside front color cover – $150; inside back color cover – $125; centerfold 2-page color spread – $250; inside color full page – $100; inside 2-page color spread – $225; inside black-and-white full-page – $80; color half-page – $80; black-and-white half-page – $60; black-and-white quarter page – $40.
Please write to PulpFest marketing director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com to reserve your space in The Pulpster. You have until June 7 to buy an ad. All spaces are sold on a first-come, first-served basis, with payment expected upon placing your order. Please be aware that our cover spaces and centerfold sell very fast.
Another way to advertise through PulpFest is to donate material that will be provided free to our members or serve as door prizes. Your generosity will be acknowledged on our website and at the convention. Over the years Bear Manor Media, Chaosium Inc., Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Jim Gerlach and ERB Books, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Meteor House, Mike Chomko Books, Curt Phillips, Pulpville Press, Radio Archives, Stark House Press, Steeger Books, Vanguard Publishing, and others have donated to PulpFest.
Sponsorships are also available. You can sponsor the convention’s membership badges, welcome banner, homepage, and more. To learn more about donations or sponsorship opportunities, please contact the convention’s marketing director, Mike Chomko, at mike@pulpfest.com.
Our featured image is excerpted from a preliminary cover for The Pulpster #34, adapted by William Lampkin from Duncan McMillan’s cover art for the September 1, 1930 issue of Adventure. Lampkin also adapted our lead image from H. C. Murphy’s cover for the October 1930 issue of Adventure.
Bill Lampkin also serves as the editor of The Pulpster. Write to him at bill@pulpfest.com with your ideas for articles in our 2025 issue.
