Year after year, there are countless individuals and organizations that help to make PulpFest such a great event. The PulpFest organizing committee would like them for their invaluable assistance in helping to make PulpFest 2021 a success. We could not have done it without you:
Our front desk staff – Marge Coiner, Sally Cullers, and Jack Cullers.
Our panelists and presenters – Jim Beard, Christopher Paul Carey, Wayne Carey, Bob Deis, Jennifer DiGiacomo, Wyatt Doyle, Doug Ellis, Henry G. Franke III, Dwight Fuhro, Madeleine “Mac” Gagné, Noir Hayes, Ed Hulse, Chris Kalb, Tim King, William Lampkin, Eva Lynd, William Patrick Maynard, Craig McDonald, Will Murray, Michelle Nolan, Teddi Norrell, Laurie Powers, Christopher Ryan, David Saunders, Darrell Schweitzer, Victoria Wang, Cathy Mann Wilbanks, and Chet Williamson. We’d also like to thank Sinister Cinema for our three Shadow feature films, as well as Scott, who served as our projectionist on Thursday evening.
Thanks to Henry G. Franke III and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. for their help putting together ERBFest 2021 in a relatively short amount of time. We’d also like to salute the fine young people of Freshly Squeezed Pulp who are introducing pulp’s legacy of adventure to a younger generation. Finally, many thanks to Mark Wheatley for creating our ERBFest posters.
Many thanks to Mike Chomko and Barry Traylor for the time they devoted to assembling this year’s auction. Thanks also to our auctioneers John Gunnison and Joseph Saine and our auction staff, Marge Coiner, Jack Cullers, and Sally Cullers.
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: the late Ray Capella, Mike Chomko, Wyatt Doyle, Ed Hulse, William Lampkin, Sar Light-Waller, Walker Martin, William Patrick Maynard, the late John Pelan, Laurie Powers, Christopher Ryan, and Emile C. Tepperman, III.
Thanks must be extended to Kate Knecht, Chuck from the banquet department, 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 #30 – editor William Lampkin, assistant editor Peter Chomko, publisher Mike Chomko, Schuerholz Printing, plus contributors Tony Davis, Craig McDonald, Will Murray, David Saunders, Sau Shankar, Darrell Schweitzer, and the late Albert Tonik. Many thanks are also offered to the magazine’s advertisers – Bear Manor Media, The Burroughs Bibliophiles, Cambridge University Press, First Fandom Experience, Heartwood Books & Art, Heritage Auctions, Larque Press, Meteor House Press, Mike Chomko Books, Murania Press, New Texture and the Men’s Adventure Library, the Pulp Factory Awards, Recoverings, Stark House Press, Michael Stradford, ThePulp.Net, and the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention.
Many thanks to the nominators and Lamont Award, Munsey Award, and Rusty Hevelin Service Award winners who helped to select the winner of this year’s Munsey, Rich Harvey. Congratulations to Rich and to all of the nominees for our 2021 award. Thank you to 2018 Munsey winner William Lampkin for presenting this year’s award.
We’d like to thank the following organizations for the books and similar items that were donated to PulpFest for distribution to our members: Bear Manor Media, Chaosium, Inc., Gordon Van Gelder and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, and Mike Chomko, Books. We would also like to the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for loaning the convention their sound system. Thanks to Heartwood Books & Art for sponsoring this year’s PulpFest banner and to our website sponsors, For the Love of All Things Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mike Chomko Books, SmartWritingService.com, and ThePulp.Net.
Thanks must also be extended to Age of Aces Books, Matt Betts, Bold Venture Press, Brenner’s Collectable Books, Wayne Carey, Mike Chomko, Dearly Departed Books, Jennifer DiGiacomo, Dreamhaven Books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Doug Ellis & Deb Fulton, First Fandom Experience, Henry G. Franke III and ERBFest 2021, Dennis Harford, Scott Hartshorn, Noir Hayes, Heartwood Books & Art, Mark Hickman, Jan Koenig, Bob McGeeney, John McMahan, Tom Martin, Drake Maynard, William Patrick Maynard, Murania Press, Garyn and Virginia Roberts, Darrell Schweitzer, Don Simpson, Steven Spilger, Todd Warren, David White, Chet Williamson, and John Wooley for sponsoring this year’s pizza night at the DoubleTree.
Finally, thanks to Ron Adams and Monster Bash, Steve Ericson, Jeff Harper, Todd McDevitt and New Dimension Comics, 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 Christopher Bowser of Geek’s Guide to Pittsburgh, as well as the websites, newspapers, and other media outlets that promoted PulpFest throughout the Pittsburgh area.
Thank you as well to the dealers, attending members, and supporting members of PulpFest 2021. 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 50.
If we’ve neglected anyone, please accept our apology and our gratitude. Write to mike@pulpfest.com and we will correct the oversight.
Your PulpFest organizing committee — Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, William Lampkin, Sara Light-Waller, William Patrick Maynard, and Barry Traylor
Designed by PulpFest’s artistic director, William Lampkin, our PulpFest 2021 postcard features the work of artist George Rozen. It was adapted from the artist’s cover painting for THE SHADOW MAGAZINE for November 1, 1936. The issue featured the first of 27 Shadow novels written by Theodore A. Tinsley, “Partners of Peril.”
