Pulp Art | ArtBlock

Pulp Art is the artwork created for cheap fiction magazines. These magazines peaked in popularity during the first half of the 20th Century and have since been replaced by other media. The original paintings are hard to find today and are a product of their time. Learn the rest of the story...
High quality digital versions of these magazines can be found at - archive.org/
A pulp cover archive is also available at - pulpcovers.com/
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[@luciditywaling]

People forget that pulp artists were generally also fine artists and great at anatomy, perspective, color theory and value. Long live Pulp!!

[@francisoconnelljr.4790]

I can't help but think of how beautiful the magazine racks would have looked back then, compared to all this drab crap we got now.

[@juniorjames7076]

I was in elementary school in the early 1980s, saw I caught the last decade of pulp magazines, pulp dime novels (selling from 2.99-5.99), comics and graphic novels on the newsstands and spinning racks of grocery shops, delis, and bookstores. You are correct, because at trip to the candy shop afterschool (or before!) to buy comics was a joy and delight as artwork competed for your eyes and 5 dollar allowance. Some days you didn't know what to buy. By the early 1990s though, you could see it all starting to disappear.

[@afonsolucas2219]

Always wanted to see more videos about Pulp Art. Amazing video

[@agm5424]

You sir get a like for being the first one to actually give a list of pulp magazines by their genres, I've been looking for good northwest stories for a while so thank you for that. Also your editing and cutaways are freaking hilarious.

[@Art_BLOCK]

@@agm5424 Thank you so much! Much appreciated.

[@jerrystaley1563]

Excellent presentation! What astounding artwork.

[@frankmartinez4856]

Really enjoy your History on Pulp mag. 😊 Heroes like Frank Merriwell, Buck Rogers! Kool! You’re the Man!!

[@Voidgamer21]

Great Doco. I'm an avid comic book collector from the 80's and although a little before my time, I absolutely love the Pulp art of this era.

[@SirRichardBear]

I'm a fan of both the art and the stories Texas native Robert E.Howard was a great writer for the pulps. To say they are racist and sexist is to be presentism you can't judge the past by present day standards

[@sparkyblazeup1]

It's THE MESSAGE.

[@cfor8129]

Yes, you can. You aren't a time traveller, you're allowed to apply your current world experiences to things you're reading.

[@plumsink]

While I do think you can judge the past (I still judge the Aztecs and the Phoenicians for their human sacrifice,) for literature it just isn't appropriate. Or perhaps I should say moralizing on old literature is in bad taste. Lots of this stuff is just great literature, the great Robert E. Howard being one example. If people can't deal with anything other than modern perspectives, the solution is simple: don't read it. The fact that one of the great fathers of modern horror - and the definitive father of cosmic horror - Lovecraft, still has to be put through the PC wringer in every online discussion is an example of the stupidity and poor taste of the practice. Having read his diary, I can say that Lovecraft seems like a pretty rotten person... and a great writer, which at this date is the only thing that matters. His sins at this point are between him and his God - or perhaps between him and Cthulhu. ;)

[@QEsposito510]

@@cfor8129 that’s a little dishonest, if not simply misinformed. Of course you can interpret anything through your own experiences - but that’s YOUR take. OP is ascribing the un-pc content of these magazines to “fears of white men in the early 20th century” - which is preposterous. OP even goes out of his way to claim that “the examples of racism and sexism are hard to ignore,” which is quite obviously his own perspective. They didn’t really have leftist soyboys back then, so to say his interpretation of that era is a realistic or ‘correct’ one is untrue.

[@josefschiltz2192]

A time when an illustrator could still scratch a living.

[@QEsposito510]

Popular Magazine - “for boys and old boys” I love that. I have a wife and kids and a job, but I still long for adventure, for mind boggling investigations, for prowling the city at night. I’m an old boy.

[@angelaandradeus6290]

They better Art then museum art,

[@lunarmodule6419]

Very well done. Interesting. Thank you

[@juniorjames7076]

I guess the action-adventure video online/games of today (Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, HALO, Call Of Duty, Tomb Raider, Arkham Asylum, MYST, etc.) are descendants of pulps since the artwork and genre's really haven't changed (Crime/Gangs, Western, Adventure, war, Weird/Horror), and the demographics is still young men dealing with a changing world around them.

[@FilmFloozy]

Nicely done. Thanks!

[@ronfisher5259]

Terrific review and fantastic information. Thanks

[@winstonblakely3846]

I found your channel by accident since I was looking for something that dealt with Pulp heroes. And yes, it is art and should be shown in museums along with things that are like pop art Those classic covers of the shadow and doc savage are just as well done is any fine arts in a gallery so thank you for this video. I have a confession to make I was looking for something to inspire me since I have a Pulp hero that I plan on publishing with a friend but it is a black Pulp Hero.What do you think of that?

[@Art_BLOCK]

Fantastic! A modern pulp hero story that focuses on a different ethnic group is a great idea. I hope it gets some traction! The pulps could use a resurgence. It is very unfortunate that so much of this art form is lost forever.

[@okcomics1635]

Yes, the themes of sexism and racism are hard to ignore, especially when the narrator is constantly harping on them.

[@adammulkey267]

I have never looked at a comic book and thought, "Wow, that's so racist, I won't buy that." This is the first time I have ever heard anyone say that.

[@thekeywitness]

Love pulp art. There are many books that cover the subject and are worth picking up. You should cover paperbacks of the 50s-70s next and men’s adventure mags of the 50s-60s.

[@albertcscs]

I tried to comment earlier but must have offended our Techno Overlords, so I will try again to please them. This is a very well produced and informative video, and I welcome it to the thin offering of artists and illustrators available on KZbin. I also greatly enjoyed your website, cited above. I would enjoy more videos featuring the individual artists and their paintings/covers as on your website. I also compliment you on the interjection of videos and film clips, it makes for a very well produced presentation.

[@Art_BLOCK]

Thank you for the feedback! There may be future videos on individual pulp artists. The websites in the description are for anyone interested in learning more about the pulps. ArtBLOCK is not affiliated with either.

[@acmckenzie0403]

It's PULP! IT HAS THE JUICE

[@Brainstrain]

5:31 the title is French, meaning someone from Paris. Peh ree shee en.

[@mitchellewing9809]

I would like to see an attempt to define the sub genres of MANGA. I understand there are many.

[@Ease54]

Nice vid, but why was H.J. Ward "infamous"?

[@gilnorton3958]

These artists worked for peanuts. The had to produce quickly, and make the picture eye catching on a crowded news stand. Personally I love their work, and would proudly hang it in my home. I guess that makes me weird.

[@jasonking8686]

Fantastic video

[@Chris_M_Romero]

I wonder if all that revisionism about all the isms you mentioned was necessary. I came here researching pulp art and winded up eating a _politics talk_ cake. And the most frustrating part is that the further this polarization goes, the more obtuse the positions on both sides become. I wonder if there's somewhere in the internet where I can escape the politics talk and just enjoy a talk about art, fiction and how wonderful it is to immense oneself in fantastic stories with orcs and sexy alien bounty hunters, without being called racist, sexist, marxist or postmo.

[@fallentitan9286]

I know what I can work on and bring back to the mondern age....Pulp books

[@matthewtorres6532]

Just a minor note, Batman was inspired by Zorro, not Shadow. To this day, Zorro still gets an homage in almost every single Batman movie.

[@ComicExcitement]

😃👍

[@MARK-gp9hb]

If you think those were racist wait until you see the "Dick Fulmine" comics, the italian-american superhero who fought blacks and jews 😆

[@fahadalenezi9677]

Lovely channel,but need more video,please 🙏

[@kentjensen4504]

I love Tolstoy but that quote is ludicrous.

[@tectorgorch8698]

SUPER-interesting. And, real men don't read no Frawnch.

[@edwardx4979]

Pulp + Fantasy = Pulp Fiction

[@shitbirdmilitia]

Good chronicling of the pulps as they came about. Came here for the ART, though. I want to know about the ART that made pulps famous, not a list. Misleading title.

[@UnderPresser]

You've used the insufferable, meaningless, annoying and PERVERSELY overused word on KZbin, "iconic" twice in as many videos. And as per my usual practice, they were both immediately turned off. I have to do this around 8 times a day.

[@Art_BLOCK]

Iconic. 🎉

[@shadowandson3550]

More presentisim B.S.,im out

[@Art_BLOCK]

Ok, bye