I really enjoyed the art at Windy City, and thought I'd share what I saw there with you. Please excuse the quality of photos, some reflections could not be avoided:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/791h7fzia9q5a4o/AAA2rFuYe5fFB-FsVDgtOU-aa
To see the photos in their full resolution, click on the ... at the bottom right, and then click on View Original.
Pulp magazines, authors and their stories. Adventure and Detective pulps.
Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Saturday, 17 May 2014
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Attended Windy City Pulp and Paper 2014
I said earlier that I was going to the Windy City Pulp show this year. I had a great time there, met a lot of people who know a lot about pulp, bought more than I thought I would, enjoyed the art and the panels, and will return next year.
I arrived in Lombard on Thursday evening and was thinking about getting some rest so that I could get up quickly for the next morning. However, after a quick meal, I went to the convention suite instead. I'm glad I did, because I met a lot of friendly people there - among them Ed Hulse (who runs Murania Press) and Walker Martin (this blog's top commenter and one of the people with a complete set of Adventure). Walker also has a trip report written up on Mystery File.
We kept talking till 1, and then I went back to my room. The next morning, I got up early and was so keyed up that I had to go for a walk till the time came for the convention door to open. Then I had breakfast and counted the minutes till it was time. Went through, and the first thing I saw was Adventure House' table on the right, with higher quality pulps on the table and reading copies on the floor below. I was in hog heaven rooting through the reading copies, and took back a bagful. This was the table I kept coming back to whenever I ran out of things to do.
Then I went around the other tables in a kind of daze (so little time to read, too much to buy) - I was like a kid in Candyland. And as kids do, I gorged myself - went around all the tables, looking for a little Adventure (but also being tempted by Blue Book and Short Stories) , enjoying the art. I came across Doug Ellis, who had the first issue of Adventure. I was sorely tempted and kept coming back to look at it throughout the show.
I also met Tom Roberts, the man behind Black Dog Books, at the show and we had fun watching a ice hockey game. I bought a couple of new books from him, a collection of Matthew Quin stories by William Murray Graydon and the second set of Singapore Sammy stories by George F. Worts. I read a few of the Graydon stories and liked them, have yet to get to the Worts - it's going to take quite some time to read through all the stuff I got. Another person I met was Dr. George Vanderburgh, who runs the Battered Dispatch Box press, from whom I had got some books earlier.
I enjoyed the art show (would have liked to buy some prints to take home. HINT, HINT.)
I met a lot of other people there - too many to call out by name. If you met me and would like to get in touch, drop me an email at pulpflakes _AT_ gmail _DOT_ com (Replace the _AT_ with an @ and the _DOT_ with a dot to get the email address).
Well, that's all for now, back to work. Next post: Photos from the event. Will get around to posting an update on circumstances around Arthur S. Hoffman's departure from the editorship of Adventure in 1927, next week.
I arrived in Lombard on Thursday evening and was thinking about getting some rest so that I could get up quickly for the next morning. However, after a quick meal, I went to the convention suite instead. I'm glad I did, because I met a lot of friendly people there - among them Ed Hulse (who runs Murania Press) and Walker Martin (this blog's top commenter and one of the people with a complete set of Adventure). Walker also has a trip report written up on Mystery File.
We kept talking till 1, and then I went back to my room. The next morning, I got up early and was so keyed up that I had to go for a walk till the time came for the convention door to open. Then I had breakfast and counted the minutes till it was time. Went through, and the first thing I saw was Adventure House' table on the right, with higher quality pulps on the table and reading copies on the floor below. I was in hog heaven rooting through the reading copies, and took back a bagful. This was the table I kept coming back to whenever I ran out of things to do.
Then I went around the other tables in a kind of daze (so little time to read, too much to buy) - I was like a kid in Candyland. And as kids do, I gorged myself - went around all the tables, looking for a little Adventure (but also being tempted by Blue Book and Short Stories) , enjoying the art. I came across Doug Ellis, who had the first issue of Adventure. I was sorely tempted and kept coming back to look at it throughout the show.
I also met Tom Roberts, the man behind Black Dog Books, at the show and we had fun watching a ice hockey game. I bought a couple of new books from him, a collection of Matthew Quin stories by William Murray Graydon and the second set of Singapore Sammy stories by George F. Worts. I read a few of the Graydon stories and liked them, have yet to get to the Worts - it's going to take quite some time to read through all the stuff I got. Another person I met was Dr. George Vanderburgh, who runs the Battered Dispatch Box press, from whom I had got some books earlier.
I enjoyed the art show (would have liked to buy some prints to take home. HINT, HINT.)
I met a lot of other people there - too many to call out by name. If you met me and would like to get in touch, drop me an email at pulpflakes _AT_ gmail _DOT_ com (Replace the _AT_ with an @ and the _DOT_ with a dot to get the email address).
Well, that's all for now, back to work. Next post: Photos from the event. Will get around to posting an update on circumstances around Arthur S. Hoffman's departure from the editorship of Adventure in 1927, next week.
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