Promotion Archive

Over the last several months, the PulpFest organizing committee has been busy promoting the convention through a wide variety of media providers, including Internet news groups such as Pulpmags, TheREHcomicsgroup, and WesternPulps, the popular social networking site, Facebook, and through events calendars such as UpcomingCons.com and experienceColumbus.com. 

However, our efforts to promote PulpFest have not been limited to cyberspace. We have also been reaching out to print and broadcasting media as well, targeting the Columbus area in the interest of securing regional publicity and, through it, attracting more walk-ins. Thanks to these efforts, PulpFest landed an article in the June 23, 2010 issue of ThisWeek, a community newspaper serving central Ohio. Additionally, PulpFest committee members Jack Cullers and Ed Hulse, as well as Ohio State professor Eric Johnson were interviewed for a three-page article entitled "Amazing Tales in Columbus" that ran in the July 2010 issue of Ohio Magazine, a glossy periodical devoted to promoting travel opportunities in the state of Ohio.

By our reaching out to a wide variety of media providers, the use of Internet news groups, our print advertising, and outreach efforts via other conventions and book and paper shows, PulpFest 2010 hopes to draw a record crowd to Columbus at the end of this week. Rest assured, your PulpFest committee will continue to work to assure that PulpFest 2010 will be a resounding success.

Many thanks to the folks who run the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for not only putting on a great show, but for allowing PulpFest’’s Ed Hulse to talk about our convention during a break in the action at the Westin Lombard. The Windy’s support over the last two years has been tremendous.

If you’re north of the border on Saturday, May 8th, why not stop by the Lillian H. Smith branch of the Toronto Public Library for the 14th edition of Canada’s premier pulp event, the Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale? This small, but pulp specific event always features lots of great stuff for the collector and the curious alike. For further information, please write to Girasol Collectables at info@girasolcollectables.com.

Also held at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, the home for PulpFest 2010, Cinevent 42 will take place during Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31. In addition to 170 tables of movie-related collectibles such as posters, lobby cards, stills, pressbooks, DVDs, and 16 mm films, Cinevent features an extensive schedule of sound and silent films and a two-day auction of Hollywood movie posters. Please visit the convention’s website for further details.

Check your ammo and saddle up your horse and head for Cross Plains, Texas for Robert E. Howard Days 2010. The focus of this year’s programming will be the illustrators of Robert E. Howard. Jim and Ruth Keegan will be the guests of honor. This year’s Howard Days will take place June 11-12.

Just a few days before summer begins, Classicon 37 will take place at the University Quality Inn in Lansing, Michigan, just off US 127 at exit 78. There will be 35 tables and thousands of collectible vintage pulp magazines, digests, and paperbacks available for sale or trade as well as pinups, original artwork, and other pop culture material. Please visit the Curious Book Shop for further information.

Of course, all these events will all be leading up to PulpFest, summertime’s great pulp con. Why not register today?

2010 is already shaping up to be a great year for pulp fiction. We’ll have another full year of not only Doc Savage and The Shadow from Sanctum Books, but also quarterly issues of The Avenger and The Whisperer. From Girasol Collectables, there will be twelve new Spider pulp replicas as well as eight adventures of The Master of Men in the popular doubles format. Girasol will also be publishing two facsimile editions collecting all of H. P. Lovecraft’s output for Weird Tales magazine. John Gunnison’s Adventure House will have six more issues of High Adventure–fast approaching its 20th anniversary–four issues of G-8 and His Battle Aces, about three dozen pulp replicas, and more. And of course, there will be plenty of other books to choose from with the offerings from Age of Aces Books, the award-winning Altus Press, Black Dog Books, Pulpville Press, and other small publishers.     (more…)

Happy Thanksgiving to all! With the holiday shopping season getting underway tomorrow, why not treat yourself to "Christmas in July" by sending in your registration for PulpFest 2010? Or perhaps you can convince your significant other to skip the sweater that he or she was planning to buy for you on Black Friday and instead purchase a "3-day membership with early bird access" for their favorite pulp fan. And while they’re at it, you might want to tell them about the Titanic exhibit that will be at Columbus’ Center of Science and Industry through September 6. Why not make PulpFest 2010 a trip for the whole family? Columbus has plenty to offer!     (more…)

Help to Promote PulpFest 2010

Below you’ll find our main circular in PDF and jpeg formats. We would like pulp fans to download our flyers, print them out, and leave stacks at collectibles shows, conventions, bookstores and comic shops, or maybe post one on the bulletin board at their local college or library. We also hope that dealers and eBay sellers will enclose them with their mail-order shipments. Any help that you provide will be thoroughly appreciated!

Please click on the images below to download our latest flyers for the 2010 convention in PDF format. Wu Fang is a registered trademark of Argosy Communications and copyright 2010 by Argosy Communications.

If you would like to publicize PulpFest 2010 on your websites, please download  a jpeg of our flyer or a copy of our logo for this year’s convention, both designed by Chris Kalb. 

 And for those of you who would like a choice of flyers, we’ve also developed a few more eye-catching circulars. Below you’ll find both color and black-and-white versions in PDF and jpeg formats. Doc Savage is a registered trademark of Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc./The Conde Nast Publications and copyright 2010 by Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc./The Conde Nast Publications. Thanks again for your help.

For questions about promoting PulpFest 2010 or about our website, please contact Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.

Although PulpFest 2010 is nearly nine months away, there could very well be a pulp con coming up, right in your home town. The first two Saturdays of November will feature three pulp-related shows, scattered across the United States.

Classicon 36 will be held in Lansing, Michigan on November 7. Ray Walsh’s long-running show features pulps, paperbacks, comics, calendars, pin-ups, original artwork and more. There will be 35 tables of goodies available. For further information, contact Ray at his Curious Book Shop in East Lansing, MI.

Down in Bordentown, New Jersey, just off Exit 7 of the Turnpike, you’ll find about three dozen tables filled with rare pulp magazines, vintage paperbacks, pulp reprints and movie collectibles. Rich Harvey has been putting on this one-day show for about ten years and it’s a blast. For further details about Pulp Adventurecon, please visit the Bold Venture Press website or drop Rich an email.   (more…)