The journal The Pulpster #28 is now available, following its debut at a highly successful Pulpfest 2019 (a big jump in attendance, and lots of new younger faces) for which Pulpster is the event’s annual journal. Issue #28 should be available quite soon for non-attendees to order by mail.
A taster of some of the contents:
* Will Murray and Anthony Tollin on… “how the creators of Batman lifted elements from The Shadow“. (There’s a matching article by Murray on Batman prototypes in Alter Ego #152, 2019)
* Will Murray on Johnston McCulley… “whom he calls the grandfather of the superhero”.
* D. Kepler surveys Zorro… “on screens around the world”.
* Scott Tracy Griffin on how… “Tarzan begat generations of jungle men, women, and children in popular culture.”
* Aaron H. Oliver on… “the 1960s western/spy TV series The Wild Wild West“.
* Tony Davis on… “Bertrand Sinclair and his nearly 50-year career in the pulps”.
The 2020 Pulpfest will apparently lead with a focus on Ray Bradbury for his 101st birthday.
Here in the UK I’m also pleased to see that the high-quality Illustrators magazine has a chunky Art of Commando Comics book due at the end of November, covering interior layouts and art as well as the well-known covers from the nation’s favourite war tales comic.
Commando is a somewhat curious format for the UK and is the closest thing we have to the ‘BD album’ format of France and Belgium. Being four x 64-page complete-story comics each month.
