The convention took place at the Westin Hotel in Lombard, the weather was perfect - sunny and cool. It turned a bit cloudy on Sunday afternoon.
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| Westin Lombard Hotel |
This year's convention theme was the 90th anniversary of H.P. Lovecraft, and so the signs for the hospitality suite (drawn by Randy Broecker, the Chicago based artist) were in keeping with the theme:
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| Hospitality Suite Sign 1 |
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| Hospitality Suite Sign 2 |
The dealer room was an Ali Baba's cave of pulps, but with much better lighting:
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| Dealer's room at Windy City Pulp and Paper 2015 |
As usual, there was a glorious display of art in the art display, much of it related to Lovecraft, made available for display by generous collectors who brought in art from their collections for display. Included were many illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Ed Emshwiller and at least one by Hannes Bok. Want to read a more detailed biography of Virgil Finlay? More of his amazing artwork can be seen in the book The Collector's Book of Virgil Finlay, available from http://www.americanfantasypress.com/. I have the book, and it was wonderful to see the originals for the illustrations in the book.
I apologize for the reflections and occasional glare on the photos - the room had many light sources all around and the illustrations had been framed with glass, so reflections were unavoidable, I tried to keep them to a minimum by photographing at an angle as opposed to straight ahead, but sometimes I had to choose between having some reflection/glare/both or no photo at all. If you want to see a slideshow of the art in higher resolution, just click on the first image below.
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| H.P. Lovecraft portrait by Virgil Finlay |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for The Shunned House |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for The color out of space |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for Halloween in the suburbs |
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| Illustration by Joseph Wirt Tillotson for The court of Kubla Khan |
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| Cover by Ed Emshwiller for Jack of eagles |
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| Cover by Ed Emshwiller for The Big Planet |
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| Cover by Ed Emshwiller for The Garden of Time |
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| Cover by Ed Emshwiller for Galaxy Magazine |
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| Cover for Argosy Magazine |
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| Interior artwork by Virgil Finlay for The Ship of Ishtar |
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| Interior artwork by Virgil Finlay for The Ship of Ishtar |
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| Interior artwork by Virgil Finlay for The Ship of Ishtar |
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| Interior artwork by Virgil Finlay for The Ship of Ishtar |
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| Interior artwork by Virgil Finlay for The Ship of Ishtar |
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller for Granny won't knit |
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| Cover painting by Howard Brown for The Shadow out of Time |
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| Gahan Wilson illustration for a book in the Cthulhu mythos |
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| Gahan Wilson illustration for a book in the Cthulhu mythos |
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| Illustration by Hannes Bok for The cats of Ulthar |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for The Black Butterflies |
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| Interior illustration by Virgil Finlay for The fifth candle |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for The Golden City |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for The Hairy Ones shall dance |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for Citadel of Fear |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for Dread Summons |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for The Slayer of Souls |
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller for Let's build an Extraterrestrial |
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller for Strange Nestling |
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| Illustration by Virgil Finlay for Tcheriapin |
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller for Space-time in one tough lesson |
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| Cover painting by Edgar Franklin Wittmack for People's magazine |
And of course, pulps everywhere:
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| Pulp reprints from Black Dog Books |
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| Robert Weinberg's dealer table - art prints, pulp reprints and audio books from RadioArchives.com |
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| Pulp reprints from Adventure House |
And even more pulps at the Friday and Saturday night auctions, some of which went for high prices:
That's it for now folks. I hope you've seen enough reasons to attend either Windy City next year or Pulpfest. Thanks to the organizers, Doug Ellis and John Gunnison