Author : David Saunders
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780982004166
Pulp and illustration art historian David Saunders has written an insightful biography, chronicling the life and work of this influential artist. This is the consummate reference book on the life of Walter Baumhofer, filled with over 300 reproductions of original art, rare proof sheets, working drawings, reference photos, as well as historic family photos.
Author : John Gunnison
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Magazine covers
ISBN : 9781886937765
A master at building suspense through figure, perspective, and color, Rudolph Belarski dazzled the newsstand browser with pictorial headlines of vital action scenes pertaining to the interior story. In doing so, he sold magazines and books to a drama-craving audience, and propelled publishing's mass markets, thus infiltrating American minds with the trends and fashions of pop culture. His remarkable versatility as an artist can be seen in the range of his published work in pulp magazines, his exciting paintings appearing on the covers of Thrilling Mystery, Wings, and War Birds, as well as The Phantom Detective, Mystery Book, Argosy, and Western Round-Up.
Author : Robert Lesser
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781402730351
The term pulp fiction has always had a certain resonance; but it is the artwork--bold, energized, dramatic, garishly colorful, and frequently grotesque--that has made pulp magazines memorable to so many people. Pulp Art is the groundbreaking--and ultimate--book on one of America's most important and spectacular forms of illustration art. At last, preserved in this volume are most of the still-existing originals created for the pulp covers, never before seen in all their sharply focused, vibrantly colored brilliance. Robert Lesser, a pioneering collector of this work and an expert on American popular culture, has assembled a gallery of these now-priceless originals. The dynamically pulp-flavored text is a complete historical survey of the pulps and their most important cover artists--Virgil Finlay, J. Allen St. John, Rafael de Soto, Hannes Bok, George and Jerome Rozen, Frank R. Paul, and many others. Also offered are critical discussions of individual paintings, as well as the major themes of the pulp magazines.
Author :
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1557420327
A popular and enthusiastic guide to the major continuing western hero characters of the American pulp magazine era, complete with bibliography, index, and illustrations of pulp covers, and with a new introduction by well-known Western writer, Ryerson Johnson.
Author : Frank M. Robinson
Publisher : Collectors Press, Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1888054123
Pulp fiction' s lurid adventures were vividly reflected on the magazines' eye-catching covers. Hard-boiled dames, bizarre monsters, dicks and ' tecs, sinister villains, and muscled warriors all appeared each month to tempt readers out of their hard-earned dimes. This gorgeous full-color compilation features hundreds of the genre' s most thrilling covers and includes an index. Taken collectively, they provide a dazzling panorama of some 60 years of illustration and social commentary.
Author : Orty Ortwein
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476651728
The writer Ray Bradbury, science fiction expert Forry Ackerman, and special effects genius Ray Harryhausen are world-famous for their careers involving tales of the imagination. Before anyone had heard of them, they were friends as teens and college-aged boys enjoying all that 1930s L.A. had to offer: getting celebrity autographs, watching blockbuster movies, and haunting dozens of bookstores. As members of the Los Angeles chapter of the Science Fiction League, the three belonged to a tight-knit group that was involved in the earliest science fiction conventions and the birth of cosplay. This book follows the lives and careers of these three literary and film legends and tracks the origins of science fiction fandom. Each chapter builds a chronology of how their paths intertwined, and ultimately connected to, the beginnings of renowned fan conventions like Comic-Con. Devoted science fiction fans and new readers alike will learn how a young friendship launched three illustrious careers and changed the face of science fiction forever.
Author : Robert Kenneth Jones
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : 1434486249
The shudder pulps published some of the grisliest, goriest, most outrageous mystery-terror fiction ever sold on the American newsstand, during the golden age of the pulp magazines. This volumes chronicles the authors, artists, and publishers of those classic thrill-fests!
Author : Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476625158
Doc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero. The character exploded onto the scene in 1933, with the Great Depression and the gathering clouds of war as a cultural backdrop. The adventure series is examined in relation to historical events and the changing tastes of readers, with special attention paid to the horror and science fiction elements. The artwork features illustrations, covers, and original art. Chapters cover Doc Savage paperbacks, pulp magazines, comic books, and fanzines, and an appendix offers biographies of all major contributors to the series.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author : Chris Lawrence
Publisher : Dynamite
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606903535
The history of painters in comics goes back to the dawn of pulp magazine covers. From "The Shadow" and "The Spider" to "The Black Bat" and so many other characters, painter's works have graced the covers of comics and pulps, which have influenced many artists over the decades. This deluxe coffeetable art book, edited and overseen by Alex Ross — one of the comic industry's most recognized painters, whose expertise has helped guide and define its contents — is the most important, most comprehensive prestige hardcover retrospective of the history of painters in comics, of all time.
