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Category Archives: pulp!

21st century pulp

Here’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while and have until now only toyed with it.  A faux-fifties pulp novel book cover, complete with lusty descriptions to draw you into picking it up and a price that would entice you to buy it.  Of course, thirty five cents was the going rate back then, so [...]

Is it an update when you just add what was there before?

When you go about updating a website, there are a few things to go over. Usually one is prone to forget a few things. I’ve found a few images I forgot to add to the gallery here.  Some of them are fairly recent,  like the one to the left, here in this post (click on it for [...]

Betty!

Sometimes (actually, most of the time), I start working on something new and it turns out completely different. This was one of those. I was just looking to work on something new and felt particularly inspired by pulp covers from the 1950′s and ’60′s.  I had the general picture in my head, but when I [...]

eye candy that lasts

One of the best collections of paperback cover scans I’ve seen online is at Vintage Paperbacks.  There’s nothing for sale. There’s only the enjoyment of the pure browse, with hundreds of scans of cover work from some of the best illustrators of the time (1930′s-70′s).  You’ll see samples from Rafael de Soto, Jim Steranko, Robert Bonfils, and Rudolph [...]