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PULP ARK 2012 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT WINNER ANNOUNCED

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  • February 21, 2012

As first announced on PULPED (www.pulped.libsyn.com) today, the Pulp Ark Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient for 2012 has been selected.  Tommy Hancock, partner in Pro Se Productions, the sponsor of PULP ARK, the Official New Pulp Convention as well as the founder and organizer of Pulp Ark, reported to PULPED! host Ron Fortier that the selection process for the Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 2011, had been completed and a recipient named.

Although 11 other Pulp Ark Awards that will be given at Pulp Ark 2012 were selected by public nomination and then voting of those who nominated, the process for selecting the Lifetime Achievement winner was different.  Ten people considered to be involved in the New Pulp Movement significantly at this point were invited to participate on the Lifetime Achievement Selection Committee.  Each of these Committee members were given an opportunity to nominate three people for the Award.  The top three from these nominations were then placed on a ballot and the Committee voted from that ballot.  The members of the Committee included, Hancock, Barry Reese, Derrick Ferguson, Ron Fortier, Bobby Nash, Art Sippo, Van Plexico, Matt Moring, Michael Brown, and Joe Gentile.

To qualify for the recognition, a person must have been heavily involved in Pulp in some capacity significantly for at least ten years and had a known impact on Pulp.  According to Hancock, the recipient of this year’s Pulp Ark Lifetime Achievement Award is Howard Hopkins.

Known for his ability to work in multiple genres as well as his absolute love for all things Pulp, Howard first came to the notice of many Pulp fans as the publisher of Golden Perils, one of the first and premier Pulp fanzines.   Hopkins’ publishing career involved many stories in many genres and included him working not only as a writer, but as a Pulp historian and an Editor.

This award will be given posthumously as Hopkins passed away suddenly on January 12, 2012.  “This recognition,” Hancock acknowledged, “is well deserved.  Nominated last year, Howard was the fifth highest nominated in 2011 for the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.   One needs simply to look at the voluminous list of fiction as well as non fiction and editing Howard did to see that this award is the least that he is worthy of.   Many of us have learned how to better our craft because of Howard.  And we will continue to learn from him for years to come.”

The award will be given to Howard’s wife, Dominique, on her husband’s behalf.  The Awards Ceremony will be held during Pulp Ark 2012 on Saturday, April 21, 2012.

For further information on this award or Pulp Ark, contact Hancock at proseproductions@earthlink.net or go to www.pulpark.blogspot.com

Following is a Bibliography of Howard Hopkins’ work-

Author of 40+ horror/western/comics fiction books, numerous published short stories, including stories in The Spider Chronicles with John Jakes, The Green Hornet, Sherlock Holmes & Captain Midnight. Co-editor of The Avenger Chronicles.

Publishing History

Robert Hale, Ltd.: Western Novels
Blood on the Saddle, The Comanche’s Ghost, Blood Pass, Wanted, Ghost-town Duel, The Gallows Ghost, The Widow Maker, Guns of the Past, Palomita, The Last Draw, The Deadly Doves, The Devil’s Peacemaker, The West Wolf, The Phantom Marshal, Bandolero, Pirate Pass, The Silver-Mine Spook, Ladigan, Vengeance Pass, Johnny Dead, Poison Pass, Ripper Pass, Nightmare Pass, Hell Pass, Haunted Pass, Desolation Pass, Blood Creek, The Devil’s Rider, Coyote Deadly, Dead Man Riding, The Killing Kind, Hell on Hoofs, Twilight Trail

Ulverscroft/F.A. Thorpe: Western Novels
Blood on the Saddle, The Comanche’s Ghost, Blood Pass, Wanted, The Gallows Ghost, The Widow Maker, Guns of the Past, Palomita, The last Draw, The Deadly Doves, The Devil’s Peacemaker, The West Wolf, The Phantom Marshal, Bandolero, Pirate Pass, The Silver-Mine Spook, Ladigan, Johnny Dead, Poison Pass, Nightmare Pass, Hell Pass, Haunted Pass, Desolation Pass, Blood Creek, The Devil’s Rider, Coyote Deadly, Dead Man Riding

Dancing Willow Press:
Night Demons, Grimm, Dark Harbors, The Nightmare Club#1: The Headless Paperboy, Pistolero, The Dark Riders, Night Demons

Atlantic Bridge Publications:
Night Demons, Grimm, Dark Harbors, The Nightmare Club#1: The Headless Paperboy, Pistolero, The Dark Riders, Night Demons

Golden Perils Press:
Night Demons, Grimm, Dark Harbors, The Nightmare Club#1: The Headless Paperboy, Pistolero, The Dark Riders, Night Demons, The Nightmare Club #2: The Deadly Dragon, The Nightmare Club #3: The Willow Witch, The Chloe Files #1: Ashes to Ashes, The Chloe Files #2: Sliver of Darkness

Non-fiction: The Gray Nemesis, Shadowed Pages, The Black Bat History, Secret Agent X History, 40 issues of Golden Perils Magazine (editor/writer, 20 print/20 electronic)

Students of the Unusual: (Comic book anthology) “Strangler”

Moonstone Books:

The Spider Chronicles #1: “Death Reign of the zombie Queen”
The Spider Chronicles #2: “Scourge of the Giggling Ghouls”
The Avenger Chronicles: (Co-editor) “The Original Man of Steel,” “The Heart of the Crucible” & “The Blast Devil”
The Avenger: The Justice, Inc. Files (Co-editor) “The Flames of Tragedy,” “Vengeance, Inc.,” “Nellie,” “Mac,” “Cole”
The Avenger: Tales from Bleek Street: “Smitty,” “Josh,” “Rosabel”
The Captain Midnight Chronicles: “Witch of the Waning Moon”
The Green Hornet Chronicles: “Flight of the Yellowjacket”
The Green Hornet Casebook: “Sting of the Yellowjacket”
Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook: (Editor) “The Haunted Manor” “A Study in Awareness”
Honey West Anthology (Editor)
The Golden Amazon: Three short stories, two comic scripts, one novel (Ripper, Burning Bright)
The Lone Ranger: Novel (Vendetta)
Comic book script: “Threesome” with Nancy Holder
The Spider: Four widescreen graphic novel adaptations: The Iron Man War, Judgement Knight, The Bat Man War, Satan’s Seven Samurai
The Spider: Widescreen comic book: The Strange Case of The Spider and Mr. Hyde

Books/Magazines for various publishers:

Weird Western Tales: “Night of the Crimson Moon”
Beat to a Pulp: “Ghost of a Chance”
The Holiday Mixer Anthology: “Slay Ride”
Where Legends Ride: “The Ballad of Jesse Barnett”
A Fistful of Legends: “Billy”

As well as:
15+ Short stories for various horror publications.
50+ non-fiction articles for various publications.

Watch A New Clip Of “The Amazing Spider-Man”

Untitled Spider-Man Reboot

Followers of the Alternate Reality Game hinted at in the recent trailer of “The Amazing Spider-Man” have been watching the web site markofthespider-man.com to play along as people found backpacks from Peter Parker and followed clues and instructions to tag certain locations with Spider-graffiti and take pictures.

Now those efforts have born fruit as the tasks have been completed, and we’ve all been rewarded with a new clip from the film.

The film opens July 3rd and stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field.

Take a look:

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Watch Conan O’Brien Fight The Intergalactic Nemesis!

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  • February 15, 2012

The year is 1933. Pulitzer-winning reporter Molly Sloan, her intrepid assistant Timmy Mendez, and a mysterious librarian named Ben Wilcott face the most serious threat Earth has ever known: an impending invasion of sludge monsters from the planet Zygon…

Last night, Conan O’Brien welcomed the people behind The Intergalactic Nemesis, a graphic novel that has been touring the country as a live-action multimedia show, and inserted himself into the action.

Take a look for yourself…

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  • February 15, 2012

TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews of All Things Pulp by Tommy Hancock
BEEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS
Laurie R. King
Bantam Books (Random House)
It seems every company, large and small, comic and print, audio and video, so on and so forth, has a Holmes product these days.  Most of them deal with Sherlock directly, but many also veer off into Watson’s life, Mycroft’s adventures, and Moriarty’s machinations.   And amongst those varied adventures of truly the World’s Greatest Detective, many are good, but very few stand out as works that both honor what came originally and bring a whole new life to the concept.
Laurie R. King is known for doing just that probably as well as anyone has.
‘Beekeeping for Beginners’ gives readers the first meeting between Mary Russell, King’s very own character inserted into the life of, at the opening of this story, an extremely despondent Holmes.     Both new readers and long time followers of King’s Russell/Holmes series will find this story to be a true delight.  Questioning his very place in the world with the War to End All Wars in swing and seemingly the time for one such as him past, Holmes comes to a decision at the opening of this tale that, had a young brash girl not happened along, would have made for an extremely short story. 
What ensues after this rather spirited trip away from the melancholy is both a great adventure that revives Holmes and a fantastic character study that adds flesh to Mary Russell.   The pacing is brisk and the characterization crisp and quick as well.   Russell makes a formidable partner for Holmes, able to verbally spar with him, but also willing to learn and play student to the master.   What comes after this opening segue in the series makes perfect sense with this glimpse into their first meeting.
FIVE OUT OF FIVE TIPS OF THE HAT- Some people bemoan when people go back and give ‘origins’.  In this case, King did nothing but add another great piece of literature to her already wonderful collection of tales.

HANCOCK TIPS HIS HAT TO THE DEBUT OF PI NICHOLAS COLT!

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  • February 14, 2012

TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews of All Things Pulp By Tommy Hancock

POCKET 47

By Jude Hardin

OceanView Publishing

One of the best liked, most lampooned, often replicated, sometimes screwed up, extremely action packed, twisty and turny sub-genres of Pulp is the Private Eye tale.   Everything from Hard Boiled to Cozy to Armchair to Science Fiction to Western to on and on ad nauseum, the PI story has endured many a different take and new coat of paint and withstood rather well.  But sometimes the best way to treat a PI is straight ahead and direct, even if it’s a tale clothed in modern trappings.  There’s never anything better than a two fisted, guns blazing gonna do what he’s gotta do gumshoe.   And it’s even better when characterization rides alongside the plot like Tonto following The Lone Ranger.

That is ‘Pocket 47’.

Jude Hardin introduces PI Nicholas Colt in this novel and Colt comes in with a ton of tragic baggage and a moral code akin to Chandler’s Marlowe and Parker’s Spenser.  A former top selling blues guitarist in a band, Colt’s life took a horrible turn when a plane crash claimed his band and his wife and daughter, leaving him as the only survivor a different man.   Years later, Colt lives in an Airstream trailer in Florida, fishes when he wants to, doesn’t play the guitar, and works as a private eye with a reputation for working runaway cases.

A client enters into Colt’s life as the novel opens, a young nurse desperate to find her fifteen year old sister who she had rescued from foster care and who has now ran away.   What starts as a typical case of tracking the girl to her favorite haunts and hiding spots takes a turn when Colt finds her and she claims someone is trying to kill her.  What ensues is murder, kidnapping, fist fights, good and bad cops, a religious white supremacist leading an army of zealots, and most of all secrets.  Secrets surrounding the runaway.  Secrets that engulf almost everyone Colt meets along the way.  And most of all, secrets that may very well tie into the most horrible event in Nicholas’ Colt’s life. 

In ‘Pocket 47’, Hardin makes everything count and matter.  Including the cryptic title.  Colt is a solid entry into the hard boiled PI school, even though he may wear shorts and spend long days fishing.  He has a serious set of rules, so serious he often quotes them and lives by them, a tried and true proof that he’s cast in a classic light.  But he’s also not Superman.  The plane crash in his past, Colt encounters enough problems in his present life to send most men spiraling into a bottle never to float to the top again.  But he barrels on, putting clues together in a solid whydunit, and taking on the police, pimps, wealthy doctors, and a Nazi like religious group to boot. 

The only problem I had with ‘Pocket 47’ and it’s one that is minor overall, is that it really could have been two books.   There’s a point in the tale where for the most part all seems resolved and it could easily be the end of the tale and yet it’s not.  By the end of the book, it’s obvious how it all ties together, but it did get slightly disjointed before it roared on to its more than satisfying ending.

FOUR OUT OF FIVE TIPS OF THE HAT- ‘Pocket 47’ is a welcome addition to my PI shelf and Nicholas Colt is definitely a character that needs to play his way into another novel….or five.


John Severin: 1921-2012

John Severin, Eisner Hall of Fame winner and one of the last of the legendary EC artists, died Sunday in Denver, Colorado. He was 90.

Severin was among the greatest draftsmen of the EC crew. He was especially well known for his western comics and war comics, but worked across many genres, including a 45 year stint drawing for Cracked magazine, doing numerous parodies and creating the definitive version of the company mascot, janitor Sylvester P. Smythe.

In recent years he had continued to work, with his last new material coming from Dark Horse last year on Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder.

His family has released a statement:

Internationally acclaimed illustrator-­cartoonist, John Powers Severin (1921-­2012), passed away Sunday, February 12, 2012 at his home in Denver, Colorado with his family by his side.

He was 90 years old.

Throughout his sixty plus year career in comic illustration and cartooning, Severin gained world-­wide notoriety and is regarded by many fans, friends, historians, and colleagues as a truly distinctive and brilliant artist.

Long-time friend and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee states, “He had an art style that was uniquely and distinctly his own.The minute you looked at his artwork you knew you were looking at a John Severin illustration; it could be no one else. Besides his inimitable style, there was a feeling of total authenticity to whatever he drew, whether it was a Western, a crime story, a superhero saga or a science fiction yarn. Not only was his penciling the very finest, but his inking, too, had a distinctive Severin touch that made every strip he rendered stand out like a winner”.

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Mark of the Spider-Man Starts Sending Out Operatives…

Mark of the Spider-Man Starts Sending Out Operatives…

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  • February 14, 2012

The countdown clock has ticked down, and there’s a new message:

So, you’ve found us.

If you support us, if you support Spider-Man, now is your time.

Follow the Twitter accounts of our operatives in each of these cities. They’ll tell you where to go to uncover the next step. For this pursuit we ask that you please be over the age of 18.

Be safe, and good luck. We’re counting on you.

via Mark of the Spider-Man.

So far, @Nycwebslinger and @Caughtinatlweb have been revealed. Denver, Phoenix, Seattle and Los Angeles are still to come…

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