Wed 29 Jul 2009
PulpFest 2009
Posted by Steve under Collecting , Conventions , Personal Notes , Pulp Fiction[4] Comments
I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning for Columbus OH and this weekend’s 2009 PulpFest convention, the first under the new name and new management. They’ve done a tremendous amount of advertising and stirred up a lot of excitement about their show, more than there’s been in a long time. The fellows running the old PulpCon had done a good job over the years, but attendance had been dropping and they didn’t appear to be very receptive to new ideas.
PulpFest is primarily a venue for collectors of old pulp magazines to get together and talk about their recent acquisitions as well as those that got away, and of course to look for more. The center of the show is the dealers’ room, but in the evening are various panels and presentations, all in a very relaxed atmosphere. Many of the attendees have been coming for years, but anyone coming for the first time should feel welcome right away.
Some of you reading this I expect to see there, including several whose names should be familiar if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, such as Walter Albert, Walker Martin, Mike Nevins and Dan Stumpf. Stop by and introduce yourself if you’re there and I don’t see you first!
I’ll be back home on Sunday, but it may be a few days into August before the blog is very active again. Whenever I go away I pretty much stay off the computer, so no reports on the big bash until I get back. See you then!
July 29th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I’ll be leaving early tomorrow (Thursday) also and hope to get into Columbus by 3:00. Already have the car packed up and ready to go. I think this new show will be a big success and improvement over Pulpcon.
For those still thinking about attending, it’s not too late. Just think, 100 tables in the dealer’s room crammed with thousands of pulps, paperbacks, books, dvds, original art. And much of this stuff is mystery oriented.
Hope to see some of you there!
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I was so hoping to get to this. Hope you had fun.
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:19 am
A great time, at least until Walter Albert got up on the table to re-enact the flying monkey scene from WIZARD OF OZ.
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:45 am
Patti
Indeed we did. Have fun, that is. Sorry you couldn’t make it, but everything went off so well, especially for what was essentially a first time effort for the folks putting it on, that there will be another one next year. Maybe we’ll see you then!
Dan
Since this was the first time you’ve been to one of these affairs, I apologize for not warning you in advance. Walter does this every year, much to everyone’s embarrassment, especially his.
At least we were around to pick up the pieces.
And — far from incidentally — it was a pleasure to meet you in person, at long last!
— Steve