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The Dealers of PulpFest 2013

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Jun 162013

PulpFest 2013 is very happy to announce that its dealers’ page has been updated to include all sellers who have registered for the 2013 convention to date.

Every great pulp con is centered around its dealers’ room and this year, PulpFest will be hosting about fifty sellers of pulp magazines and related materials, vintage paperbacks, digests, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, Golden and Silver Age comic books, vintage films and radio programs, and other pop culture collectibles. There will be over one-hundred tables of material. You’ll find most of our sellers listed on the freshly revised Our Dealers page.

The PulpFest dealers’ room will be situated in the Regency Ballroom, a 15,800 square-foot gathering space that will feature wide aisles and spacious work areas for our sellers. Located on the third floor of the Hyatt Regency Columbus, the ballroom can accomodate up to 1600 people at any given moment.

If you are interested in selling at this year’s PulpFest, there is still “room at the inn.” Please visit our registration page for further instructions or write to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com. And don’t forget, for those dealers who plan to stay at the Hyatt Regency, PulpFest is offering one free table for every two reserved. That’s three for the price of two, six for the price of four, and so on. Additionally, dealers staying at the Hyatt will also receive ten dollars back from their registration fee.

Dealer set-up will take place on Thursday, July 25th from 4 – 11 PM. There’s a side entrance to the hotel for loading and we have been granted exclusive use of a freight elevator that opens up near the north wall of the dealers’ room. All dealers are urged to take advantage of our lengthy load-in period on Thursday, so PulpFest attendees will find a fully functioning hucksters’ room as soon as the convention opens on Friday, July 26th.

The PulpFest dealers’ room will be open to all registered attendees from 9 AM until 5 PM on July 26th and 27th and from 9 AM until 2 PM on Sunday, July 28th.

Pictured above is an Omaha, Nebraska newsstand from late 1938. Visit ThePulp.Net’s Pulp photos to see more newsstands.

Pulp Con Season Starts in Two Weeks

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Mar 242013

With April approaching, the pulp con season begins. First up will be the Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show, followed by the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention beginning April 12th. PulpFest committee members Jack Cullers, Mike Chomko, and Ed Hulse (who will be releasing a new issue of Blood ‘n’ Thunder) will all be there with information about PulpFest 2013.

A couple of weeks after Windy City, the South’s leading “pulp culture” convention, Pulp Ark will take place in Springdale, Arkansas while Canada’s premier pulp event, the Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale, will be held May 11th in Toronto. About a week later, Morris, Illinois will host the 2013 Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship Gathering while Columbus, Ohio will be home to Cinevent 45 over Memorial Day weekend.

June 7th and 8th are the dates for Robert E. Howard Days in the author’s home town of Cross Plains, Texas. Still to be announced is the date for the spring edition of Classicon, but the Derby City Comic Con will go off on June 29th in Louisville, Kentucky.

Of course, all of these events are a prelude for the best pulp event of all, the summertime destination for fans and collectors of vintage popular fiction and related materials, PulpFest 2013. This year, we’ll be celebrating Doc Savage and the pulp heroes of 1933 and the centennial of the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu. Our guests will include Will Murray, author of twelve Doc Savage novels, including the just-released King Kong crossover, Skull Island; Lamont Award winner Don Hutchison, leading pulp anthologist and author of The Great Pulp Heroes and numerous articles about the pulps; Nathan Madison, author of Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comics, 1920-1960; William Patrick Maynard, the writer authorized to continue the Fu Manchu series; and pulp art expert David Saunders. There will also be a showing of the complete movie serial, The Spider’s Web, produced by Columbia Pictures in 1938.

PulpFest is now accepting registrations for this year’s convention, running July 25th-28th. From our registration page, you’ll be able to download our member and dealer registration forms. You can pay for memberships and dealer tables through our Paypal order page. You’ll also be able to book a room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus at the convention rate of $112 plus tax via our special link to the hotel.

We are also happy to once again supply a third table free of charge to dealers who stay at the Hyatt and rent two tables in our hucksters’ room. That’s three tables for the price of two, or six for the price of four. The massive size of the Regency Ballroom enables us to provide this extra exhibit space to loyal PulpFest dealers. Remember, this special offer is good only to dealers staying at the host hotel.

With about a quarter of the vast collection of pulp researcher Al Tonik tucked away in storage, PulpFest is delighted to report that the remainder of Albert’s superlative library of hardcovers, paperbacks, pulps, dime novels, comic books, fanzines, art books, and reference books will be sold during our Saturday night auction on July 27th. For additional details, including a link to the catalog, please visit the Tonik Auction page under our Auctions button.

All this and more can be found by clicking the buttons along the left side of our home page. And don’t forget, you can make your nominations for the 2013 Munsey and Rusty Hevelin Service Awards through the end of April. Please send the name of the person that you’d like to nominate and a short paragraph describing your reasons for your nomination to Mike Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview St., Allentown, PA 18104-6542 or to mike@pulpfest.com.

In the coming weeks, PulpFest will start previewing its highly respected programming on this site. So please visit often. We look forward to seeing you July 25th through July 28th.

This year’s Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention will be saluting ninety years of science fiction and fantasy magazines including the August 1923 issue of Hugo Gernsback’s Science and Invention magazine, its “Scientific Fiction Number” which sported front cover art by Howard V. Brown. The scan is from the January 31, 2012 Tellers of Weird Tales.

PulpFest 2012 to Begin!

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Aug 092012

Tonight at 8 PM, PulpFest 2012 will begin with a look at French influences on the pulps and a conversation saluting the 75th anniversary of John Campbell’s arrival at Astounding. Next we’ll celebrate the 100th birthday of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan with presentations on the character’s influence on pop culture and the film The New Adventures of Tarzan.

You can find additional details about these and all of our programming at www.pulpfest.com/programming.

The PulpFest dealer room will open for business beginning at 9 AM on Friday, August 10th. You can register early for what is typically a feeding frenzy as book and pulp collectors scour the room searching for this or that long elusive volume. All you have to do is arrive by Thursday evening at the Hyatt Regency Columbus and sign up for the convention from 6 PM – 9 PM.

Admission to the show is $15 per day or $35 for all three days, allowing entry to all convention activities. The general public is very much welcome to attend.

Safe Journey

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Aug 082012

PulpFest 2012 will begin tomorrow, August 9th. Dealer set-up will take place from 4 PM to 11 PM. Early registration will begin at 6 PM at a location to be determined. Information will be available upon your arrival at the hotel.

To all of you who will be attending PulpFest, we look forward to seeing you. Please have a safe journey to Columbus.

Barry Traylor, Ed Hulse, Jack Cullers, and Mike Chomko–your PulpFest Organizing Committee.

PulpFest 2012 Begins Thursday!

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Aug 062012

PulpFest 2012 will begin on Thursday evening, August 9th, with a salute to the 100th anniversary of Tarzan. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ world-renowned character was introduced to the public in the novel “Tarzan of the Apes,” published in its entirety in the October 1912 issue of Munsey’s The All-Story. Friday will bring a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Burroughs’ first novel, “Under the Moons of Mars,” the tale that introduced John Carter to lovers of adventure and interplanetary fiction. On Saturday, PulpFest turns to Robert E. Howard’s Conan of Cimmeria, who turns eighty in December.

Early indications are that we will surpass last year’s show both in our number of registrations and rooms booked at the hotel. So this year’s con will be our biggest and best yet. We are still receiving registrations every day, many from people who have never attended PulpFest before. If you’ve been thinking about attending, but still haven’t pulled the trigger, you probably should call the hotel and make your reservation immediately. You can do so by calling 1-888-421-1442 or 1-614-463-1234 or by clicking our link to the Hyatt Regency Columbus on our home page under “Book a Room.” Please be sure to mention PulpFest when placing your reservation.

The Hyatt Regency is located at 350 North High Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The hotel is south of I-670, just 15-20 minutes from Columbus International Airport. In the heart of the active Arena District, the Hyatt Regency is just a few minutes’ walk from the trendy Short North Arts District. There are shops and restaurants galore right outside the hotel’s entrance.

From 4 PM to 11 PM on Thursday, the dealers’ room will be open for exhibitors to set up their displays. During set-up, dealers are asked to arrange their displays and, upon completion, cover them up and then depart the room. No buying, selling, or trading will be permitted during Thursday’s set-up. Dealers should please refrain from all such activity.

At this point, we urge all of our dealers to take full advantage of our generous load-in and set-up period. After all, this is our first year in a new location, and while uploading and transporting your goods should be much easier–there’s a side entrance to the hotel for loading and we have been granted exclusive use of a freight elevator–there is bound to be a certain amount of disorientation as folks negotiate their way around the Hyatt for the first time. We feel very strongly that attendees have every right to expect a fully-set-up hucksters room as soon as the convention opens on Friday, which is why PulpFest has always offered a lengthy load-in period on Thursday from 4 – 11 PM. We welcome your cooperation in this aspect of the show.

Early registration for the general membership will also take place on Thursday, beginning at 6 PM at a location to be determined. All members, dealers included, can pick up their registration packets at this time. For those of you who have not yet registered for PulpFest, Thursday evening will be an ideal time to do so. Three-day memberships will be available for $35. Single day memberships costing $15 per day will also be available. Please visit our Registration page for further details.

The dealers’ room will open to all members on Friday, August 10th at 9 AM and remain open until 5 PM. It will be open from 9 AM to 5 PM on Saturday and from 9 AM to 2 PM on Sunday. Dealers will be allowed to enter the room approximately 15 minutes prior to opening in order to prepare their displays.

There will be programming on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings and several presentations during the Friday and Saturday afternoon. Please visit our Programming page for further details.

All PulpFest attendees will be able to submit material for inclusion in the Saturday Night Auction. For additional information, please visit our Auctions page under “Programming” or contact Barry Traylor via email at barry@pulpfest.com. However, due to the substantial amount of material submitted by Al Tonik, we will have to place limits on the number of lots offered by each consignee. The sooner you submit your consignment, the more likely that it will be including in our auction.

For those attendees who would like to ship their purchases to their homes, PulpFest 2012 has arranged for a local UPS provider to be available at the hotel on Sunday, August 12th, starting at 12:00 PM. Further information is available on our FAQ page.

The entire PulpFest 2012 organizing committee–Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Ed Hulse, and Barry Traylor–is looking forward to seeing you all in just a few days. Have a safe trip to Columbus.

Buy Two, Get One Free!

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Jul 032012

With PulpFest fast approaching, we’ve been assembling the vast jigsaw puzzle that is the dealers’ room, making sure our vendors are placed in the specific locations they asked for–against the walls, in the “island,” near electrical outlets, and so on. We now find ourselves in the desirable position of having available more space than we originally thought.

The exhibit area assigned to us by the Hyatt Regency for our dealers is 25 percent larger and more conveniently configured than the ballroom we used at the Ramada Plaza. When scouting the new hotel it was immediately apparent to us that PulpFest hucksters would have larger and more comfortable quarters. The only downside we could think of before electing to move to our new location was that the Hyatt supplies six-foot tables rather than the eight-foot tables we had been getting from the Ramada

But in laying out the room it has become apparent that we can squeeze more tables into our allotted space than previously estimated. Therefore, in the interest of restoring to our dealers the square footage they have been accustomed to, we are delighted to announce that we can now provide a third table free of charge to any vendor who has already booked, or still intends to book, two tables at PulpFest. We are, however, limiting this offer to dealers who will staying at the Hyatt.

If you have already reserved two tables and would like a third free, just e-mail Jack Cullers and let him know. Write to jack@pulpfest.com. If you have not reserved tables yet, well, we recommend you do so post haste, because the free upgrades from two tables to three will probably eat up that extra space in fairly short order. Remember, the three-for-two offer extends only to PulpFest vendors who are staying at the Hyatt during the con. Please visit our registration page for further instructions.

At this point we would also urge you to take full advantage of our generous load-in and set-up period. After all, this is our first year in a new location, and while uploading and transporting your goods should be much easier–there’s a side entrance to the hotel for loading and we have been granted exclusive use of a freight elevator–there is bound to be a certain amount of disorientation as folks negotiate their way around the Hyatt for the first time. We feel very strongly that attendees have every right to expect a fully-set-up hucksters room as soon as the convention opens on Friday, which is why PulpFest has always offered a lengthy load-in period on Thursday from 4 – 11 PM. We welcome your cooperation in this aspect of the show.

The PulpFest committee is very excited about our first show in this upscale new venue. Our programming is set and, as is always the case this time of year, we’re fielding lots of questions from eager registrants, some of them attending PulpFest for the first time. It’s going to be a great weekend!

PulpFest 2012 Accepting Registrations

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Jan 302012

PulpFest 2012 is now accepting registrations for our August convention. From our Registration page, you’ll be able to download our member and dealer registration forms, including ones that you can fill in and print from your own computer. You can pay for memberships and dealer tables through our Paypal Order page. You’ll also be able to book a room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus at the convention rate of $109 plus tax by visiting our special link to the hotel.

On our Programming page you’ll find our tentative schedule for the 2012 convention when we’ll be celebrating the centennial of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars and the 80th anniversary of Robert E. Howard’s Conan of Cimmeria. You can read more about MIke Resnick, our award-winning guest of honor by turning to the GOH–Mike Resnick page. If you’d like to relive the first three PulpFests, you’ll find reviews, our blogs from previous years, and more. We even have a primer on pulp history!

All this can be found by clicking the buttons along the left side of our home page. And don’t forget, now’s the time to make your nominations for the 2012 Rusty Hevelin Service Award. Please send the name of the person that you’d like to nominate and a short paragraph describing your reasons for your nomination to Mike Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview St., Allentown, PA 18104-6542 or to mike@pulpfest.com. The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2012.

We look forward to seeing you over the weekend of August 9-12.