Sentences with phrase «pulp magazine»

The work proceeds from a cartoon Graham found in a 1950s men's pulp magazine, where two persons are standing in front of almost identical caricatured representation of two abstract paintings by the artist «Picado» made about 40 years apart.

Buck Rogers is a fictional character who first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories as Anthony Rogers.

But I can't help but think of the authors that I love that came out of sensationalist, pulp magazine writing (the equivalent of todays bloggers and indies): Twain, London, Alcott, PK Dick.

«Man of Steel» excels at reclaiming the Superman saga as science fiction by conceiving alien landscapes that look like they originated on the cover of a»30s pulp magazine.

The loading screens for Double Fine's triple - fine Xbox Live Arcade mech game Trenched are spot - on parodies of early 20th - century pulp magazine covers.

PULP MAGAZINE — Aug 7 — «New Manhunt» is the site's biggest overhaul in seven years.

The author of classics such as «Fahrenheit 451» and «The Martian Chronicles» was one of the last living links to an era in early 20th century America in which children got lost in stargazing or pulp magazines like «Weird Tales» instead of video games.

Please leave that to the pulp magazines!

Science fiction has been a ghetto genre since the days when almost all the SF available was published in cheap pulp magazines.

Chicago born author Edgar Rice Burroughs, in reading pulp magazines circa early 1900's, felt he could easily produce better material and subsequently came up with a story of a white orphan boy, raised by apes, who grows up to become king of the jungle.

Film Review by Kam Williams Alexander Skarsgard Stars as Legendary King of the Jungle Tarzan became a sensation soon after his initial introduction to the world via pulp magazines published in 1912.

Join host Mike McCune at Bucket O» Blood Books & Records (3182 North Elston Ave) for an evening celebrating pulp magazines and fiction, with a modern twist!

Blu - ray / DVD Review by Kam Williams Franchise Reboot Features Politically - Correct Version of the King of the Jungle Tarzan became a sensation soon after his initial introduction to the world via pulp magazines published in 1912.

While writing for pulp magazines, Hammett is asked by Jimmy Ryan (Peter Boyle), his old boss at the Pinkerton agency (and the model for the writer's «Continental Op» character), to help crack a particularly tough case.

Doc Savage was a popular character in American pulp magazines in the»30s and»40s, who later resurfaced in paperback novels from the»60s through to the 1990s.

This is just a very short list of some of the novels published in the pulp magazines and in what were called «slick» magazines and in the early days of paperbacks up until traditional publishing started jamming the length up.

So, when they had pulp magazines that covered all kinds of genres, from adventure to detective and so on, they would look at that market and they would try to write to that market, but being prolific was what counted.

I don't wish to be negative, but this future - trend tells me that comics end up the way that Big Little Books and Pulp magazines ended up: part of a generational history... When paper - based comics go by the wayside, so will the interest in the characters of comics.

Before fanfic there was genre fiction and before that pulp magazines.

Ebooks seem to fill the role of the old pulp magazines — genre fiction for voracious readers.

It includes books from modern SciFi writers which first appeared in pulp magazines, classic out - of - copyright, and earlier works of speculative fiction that not everybody will agree are science fiction.

I find it interesting that in the days of pulp magazines the publishers paid a set price PER WORD.

For a more detailed history of Campbell's influence on American science fiction, see Ashley, Mike, The Time Machines: The Story of the Science Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press), 107 — 111.

I was expecting to see something analogous to the heyday of pulp magazines by now — specialty publications on every imaginable subject, focusing on the short form.

Come see a rare and comprehensive collection of Sci - Fi Pulp magazines, paperbacks, and hardcover books displayed on the Back Room Gallery walls.

Born in 1949, he studied in LA with Robert Heinecken, who kept returning to the female body as seen through pulp magazines and TV.

A panoply of characters and settings is drawn from sources of popular culture: old movies, television soaps and pulp magazines.

Not exact matches

Asimov, whose phenomenal literary output totalled more than 400 books, began writing fiction for the American «pulp» magazines in the 1930s.

How reading on screens differs from reading on paper is relevant not just to the youngest among us, but to just about everyone who reads — to anyone who routinely switches between working long hours in front of a computer at the office and leisurely reading paper magazines and books at home; to people who have embraced e-readers for their convenience and portability, but admit that for some reason they still prefer reading on paper; and to those who have already vowed to forgo tree pulp entirely.

His first effort, a pulp story titled Under the Moons of Mars, was serialized the following year in All - Story Magazine.

In March of 1953, the late Elmore Leonard published his story Three Ten to Yuma in the pulp publication Dime Western Magazine.

Sentimentality is not going to draw the under - 40 crowd to «The Shadow» — a movie based on the radio and pulp - magazine series of the 1930s.

The new screenplay by Steve Conrad updates the story, changing Mitty's profession from over-protected pulp - fiction proofreader to a shy negatives - assets manager for Life magazine.

The book, along with magazines and newspapers, is headed for the pulp mill of history.

Though you pointing that out now makes me curious if they're launching another magazine - in the past, they've also published the manga antholgies Shojo Beat, Pulp [a spiritual predecesor to SigIkki], MangaVizion, and Animerica Extra, as well as anime magazine Animerica.

He also created a gag series called Short Cuts for Young Sunday magazine, which was later serialized in the English - language manga magazine Pulp and published as a graphic novel by VIZ Media (rated «M» for Mature).

Continue reading «Comic Cons, Comic Books, and a Library Magazine: Anne Drozd on the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival, Pulp, and a Mystery Comic»

The rest, the vast majority of novels, were published in the magazines, pulps, self - published, and hardback second - run presses like Grosset up until the Second World War.

The literary writers were published in expensive hardbacks, the fast pulp writers were published in ten cent magazines.

The publisher pulped an entire run, destroying the magazine's complete monthly edition, rather than let a story featuring a prominent person of color see the light of day.

In some ways, Mr. Patterson's effort is a throwback to the dime novels and pulp fiction magazines that were popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, when commercial fiction was widely available in drugstores.

In the old pulp days, you'd go out to a magazine for a penny word, and that was that.

How reading on screens differs from reading on paper is relevant not just to the youngest among us, but to just about everyone who reads — to anyone who routinely switches between working long hours in front of a computer at the office and leisurely reading paper magazines and books at home; to people who have embraced e-readers for their convenience and portability, but admit that for some reason they still prefer reading on paper; and to those who have already vowed to forgo tree pulp entirely.

But Jones represents an archetype that stretches back much further, of course; his true inspiration can be traced beyond the 1950s movie matinee serials and pulp comics that inspired George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and toward the great colonial fantasies of King Solomon's Mines, The Lost World and the Boy's Own magazines.

The texts that are such a crucial part of Johnson's work are sometimes written by him and at other times appropriated from disparate sources such as People magazine, pulp fiction, celebrity autobiographies, black box flight recorders, and rock lyrics.

The curator Walter Hopps once recalled that when he had visited Warhol's house in 1961, the floor had been «covered wall - to - wall with every sort of pulp movie magazine, fan magazine, and trade sheet, having to do with popular stars from the movies or rock»n' roll.

A devoted collector and bibliophile — as one might expect of a celebrated appropriationist who found his calling while working on the Time - Life clippings desk — Prince has on display rare, beat - era publications and ephemera, pulp paperbacks, and even a few copies of Art - Rite, the goofy newsprint art magazine I helped put out in the 1970s.

The New York Times describes the paintings as «rendered in the style of comics and pulp fiction book jackets, a dash of Mad magazine, a spoonful of Tales of the Crypt, some grotesques, some superheroes, always action, emotion, drama.»

The term «high culture» is often used by art critics when trying to distinguish the «high culture» of painting and sculpture (and other fine arts), from the «low» popular culture of magazines, television, pulp fiction and other mass - made commodities.

Sand, crushed bricks, dry leaves, water, cushions, foam flakes, books, magazines, «pulp fiction,» straw, matting, and incense, 68 ft. 10 3/4 in.