PulpFest is certainly not the only pulp convention out there in the world. There are a fair number of shows scattered throughout North America, among them the recently held Pulp Adventurecon in Bordentown, NJ. One of the biggest and best of the pulp-related convention, The Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is held in the springtime. Which is why, on April 19, 2009, PulpFest posted the announcement that follows.

Pulps Are in the Air!

Spring is in the air and so is the convention season. The Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention starts the ball rolling during the first weekend of May. Three members of the PulpFest Organizing Committee will be on hand–Jack Cullers, Ed Hulse and Mike Chomko. Please stop by our tables to learn more about what has become the talk of the pulp community–PulpFest 2009!

One short week after the Chicago convention, the pulp community heads to Toronto. Although none of PulpFest’s guiding hands will be in attendance, the 13th Annual Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale is sure to be a blast. For more information, please write to Girasol Collectables.

The month of May closes with the Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship gathering in California.

With the arrival of June comes the Spring edition of Classicon. This Michigan convention offers a wide variety of collectibles from pulps and paperbacks to calendars and pin-up magazines. For more information, write to the Curious Book Shop.

Cross Plains, Texas celebrates Robert E. Howard Days on June 12-13. This year, the festival will be saluting the poetry of the popular pulp author.

Although PulpFest 2009 has been generating a lot of positive buzz in the collectibles community, it has not been resting on its laurels. In addition to offering advertising flyers at pulp-related events such as Windy City and Classicon, we’ll be promoting our show at science-fiction and fantasy conventions such as Ravencon, Marcon and Farmercon. Mystery fans will see our hardboiled side at shows like Malice Domestic and Deadly Ink. The Shadow will greet the comics crowd at Steel City Con, Motor City Comic Con and other conventions. And book and paper collectors will get a taste of pulp at the Greater Boston Book and Ephemera Fair, Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair and Chicago’s Printers Row Lit Fest as will movie fans who attend Cinevent.

We’ll also be running print advertisements in The Paper and Advertising Collector’s Marketplace (our first print ad appears in their May issue), Firsts, Alter Ego, Book Source Magazine, Illustration and other publications.

The PulpFest 2009 Organizing Committee is working very hard to get the word out about our convention. Please do your part by sending in your registration for what is shaping up to be the pulp event of 2009!