UCONN Pulp Cover Exhibit
Saw this over at the CGC boards and thought it was pretty cool because I’m a bit of a pulp collector, it being a bit of a natural extension and progression of my book collecting, especially if one considers my focus on speculative fiction (I post about pulps at my old blog, and I may bring that post over here at some point). Apparently, the University of Connecticut has been hosting and exhibiting a very nice pulp art collection and will be so until March 14th. Over 50 covers presented, they are from the Robert Lesser Collection and an introduction to the exhibit can be read at the Benton Museum (the on-campus state museum, if I’m reading that correctly) site. Someone at the board also linked to this very cool slide show of the Lesser Collection–AMAZING!.
I’ve said it before but pulps still have some of the best and vivid covers that you’ll find on any publication. While my buying habits tend to have focus (usually first stories by authors admire, first character appearances etc), pulps can be and very much so are moved at premiums simply because of the beauty or force of the covers. To this day I’ll take the great Margaret Brundage over your favorite statuesque cover artist/painter. I’ve posted these before, but there are two examples from my own collection that represent pulps within my collecting focus. These are issues of Planet Stories from ’50s, one of which represents the legendary Philip K. Dick’s first story and the other a very early one that came soon after.
Normally I wouldn’t feel the need to say this, but I ran across a message board where somebody didn’t know who PKD was. I’m going to skip the stories and novels, because people who know who he is already know about the literature, and just say: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, and among the upcoming is the Matt Damon and Emily Blunt starring The Adjustment Bureau.
I wish I could see this exhibit!
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