EDITOR’S NOTE: Mike Chomko is one of the founders and main organizers of the annual PulpFest convention that will held this year in Pittsburgh from August 15 to 18. Recently,…
DEBUTING AT PULPFEST 2019: A guest post by Mike Chomko…
ARGOSY, ADVENTURE & BLUE BOOK: Top pulps that became top men’s adventure magazines
The 2019 PulpFest convention will be held in Pittsburgh from August 15th to 18th. PulpFest is a descendant of the pioneering PulpCon that used to be held in my home…
“Men’s Adventure Magazines and the Art of War” – a PulpFest presentation (Part 2)…
My previous post on this blog reprinted the first half of the presentation I made with my publishing partner Wyatt Doyle at last year’s PulpFest. In case you don’t know…
Catching up with fanzine publisher Justin Marriott and his pulp culture posse…
Justin Marriott and Paul Bishop are two of my favorite pulp culture mavens. (“Pulp culture” is a term I borrowed from the book of that name by Frank M. Robinson…
POLLEN’S ACTION: THE ART OF SAMSON POLLEN, our second book showcasing Sam’s men’s adventure magazine art
Simply put, Samson Pollen was one of the greatest of the many artists who provided illustrations for the men’s adventure magazines (MAMs) that flourished from the early 1950s to the…
The John Whitlatch enigma solved: a guest post by writer & pulp maven Paul Bishop…
Updated on December 27, 2018… EDITOR’S NOTE: A while back, I posted an interview here with a writer I’m a huge fan of and proud to call a…
Men’s adventure magazine Christmas spoof covers. Ho! Ho! Ho!
Christmas covers and stories were not common in the men’s adventure magazine (MAM) genre. In the 1950s, a few of top tier MAMs, like ARGOSY, TRUE and SAGA, did have…
The 2019 Eva Lynd Calendar, featuring Eva in classic glamour girl photos & artwork…
In recent years, I’ve had the pleasure of becoming friends with actress model Eva Lynd. I started writing posts about her on this blog before I met her several years…
Original Samson Pollen artwork featured in POLLEN’S WOMEN – now available from Sam…
The books in the Men’s Adventure Library series of books I co-edit and publish with Wyatt Doyle all feature classic artwork from men’s adventure magazines published in the 1950s, 1960s…
“WHEN SHRUNKEN HEADS WERE BIG!” Guest post by John Navroth, Editor of MONSTER MAGAZINE WORLD
EDITOR’S NOTE: John Navroth has an encyclopedic knowledge of just about everything related to monsters and horror. On his long-running, award-winning blog, MONSTER MAGAZINE WORLD, his main focus is on…
A look at our book: CUBA: SUGAR, SEX, AND SLAUGHTER…
CUBA: SUGAR, SEX, AND SLAUGHTER, in another one of the story and art anthologies in the Men’s Adventure Library series I co-edit with Wyatt Doyle. This one is a collection…