We all love the colorful richness of science fiction pulp cover art. But pulp art didn’t spring into the world fully formed, full of beautiful women adventurers and marauding robots. Science fiction ...

You're probably familiar with the term "pulp fiction," referring to books printed on cheap "pulp" paper with covers featuring sexy illustrations of bombshells and studs. Originating in the first half ...

The term "pulp fiction" might bring to mind Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film, but what his title references is a genre of popular novels in the 1930s an '40s with garish, eye-catching covers. The ...

A very cool exhibition of pulp art opens tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum, called Pulp Art: Vamp, Villains, and Victors. The collection is of paintings from the 1920s to 1940s that mostly served as ...

Rock music was considered disreputable by the arbiters of popular culture back in the day. They dismissed the evolving genre as low art–much like the pulp sci-fi and thriller fiction found on local ...

Some of the most common publishers of this pulp horror were Zebra, Tor and Signet. But who painted them? That answer isn’t ...

A particularly chilling scene appears in the first season of Jessica Jones, the Netflix series based on a Marvel Comics character – a scene feminist critics have called a metaphor for the comic ...

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“Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains, and Victors from the Robert Lesser Collection,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art through Aug. 31, fairly sings with what Nabokov called the exhilaration of Philistine ...

Science fiction has an eclectic history. Authors have explored bizarre new worlds, strange aliens, and unimaginable futures. The pulp novels of the mid-20th century contained all of this, and they ...