We don’t usually get to wish pulp contributors a happy birthday, but we’d like to send our best wishes to pulp artist Gloria Stoll Karn. She turns 90 today.
She is one of only a handful of women artists who contributed to the pulp magazines.
Her first interior illustrations appear in 1941, while her first cover (for Rangeland Romances) was dated December 1942 — when she was only 19 years old.
Mrs. Karn‘s work also appeared on the covers of All-Story Love, Black Mask, Dime Mystery, Detective Tales and other pulp magazines.
If you’d like to find out more about her, check out Illustration Magazine. David Saunders (the son of pulp artist Norman Saunders) has a wide-ranging interview with Mrs. Karn that covers her entire career in the pulps, as well as her life after the pulps. It appeared in issue 25 of the magazine.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Karn.
