Feb 26, 2014 | Colleagues and Comic Cons, The Pulps
Pulps and Pensacon I came “home” to the Gulf Coast for a few months this winter and for the first time my two lives intersected. Thanks to Danny Fingeroth I attended Wizard World Comic Con in New Orleans and this past weekend I presented at Pensacon in Pensacola...
Jun 22, 2012 | DC Comics, The Pulps
The Pulps and Comics If you love comics you need to know about the pulps. Modern comic books are rooted in that late great period of American fiction writing known as Pulp Fiction. This nomenclature is often confused with 1950s paperback novels, many with lurid...
Sep 18, 2011 | Comics History, Family History, The Pulps
How I Spent my Summer--Pulpfest 2011 Dark clouds filled the sky. As I drove on the winding mountain road, I had a bad feeling that I should have followed my instincts about traveling this way. Rain began to fall and huge trucks roared past spraying the...
Nov 15, 2010 | Comics History, DC Comics, The Pulps
My Real Life Pulp Adventure Breathlessly I jumped in the roadster knowing that time was running out if I was going to make it to the rendezvous that would change my life. Sailing past the mean streets of the City with its hustlers and dreamers I made...