Pulp Conventions

Pensacon 2014

Pensacon 2014 panel on pulp magazines
Jeffrey Shanks, left, moderates a panel discussion on “From Pulps to Comics” featuring Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson and David Earle.
This panel discussion, titled “From Pulps to Comics,” was recorded on Friday Feb. 21, 2014, at Pensacon, in Pensacola, Fla. The panel was moderated by Jeffrey Shanks, an archeologist and anthropologist, and an expert in the field of weird fiction in the pulps. He was joined by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the granddaughter of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, a pulp fictioneer and founder of DC Comics, and by David Earle, a professor of literature at the University of West Florida.

Pulp events

Events are subject to change.

April 5-7, 2024: Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, Lombard, Ill.

June 1, 2024: Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale, Toronto, ON, Canada.

June 7-8, 2024: Howard Days, Cross Plains, Texas

Aug. 1-4, 2024: PulpFest 2024, Pittsburgh, Pa.

On–going:
• Gotham Pulp Collectors Club, 1 p.m. the third Saturday of each month via Zoom. Check its website for location.