Hugo Gernsback & the Pulp April Fool’s Hall of Fame This week on the Rocketeer Podcast, we’re discussing how to build regenerative vacuum tube circuits. The schematics in figures 1-5 outline the differences between the new French and American audions…
The Dime-Novel Roots The roots of adventure and where the whole damn thing started Hel-lo, you star-dreamin’ cats and kittens! This week’s Rocketeer Podcast drops the first nugget of my new occasional series Pulp 101, and we’re startin’ right at…
A new series of a quick, bite-sized adventures Pulp 101 is a new occasional series of short, lively history nuggets on The Rocketeer. Think of it as your ticket to the wild and wonderful underbelly of the pulp magazines —…
Holbein Colored Pencils Review (Professional Artist Test) final my edits Introduction I have worked as a colored pencil artist for over forty years, with experience ranging from children’s book illustration to formal portraiture. My work has appeared in art shows,…
Rocket-Fueled Pulp Archaeology—Digging Up the Past to Inspire Tomorrow The 100th Episode The Rocketeer’s 100th episode reflects upon the origins and evolution of the podcast—from a modest pulp newsletter to a full-fledged exploration of what I call Pulp Archaeology: the…
This week on the Rocketeer Podcast: Threads of the Mystic: Metaphysical Currents in Transitional Fantasy. These fantasy stories are not like our fantasies today. They are scientific romances, or science fantasies, from the period of approximately 1915 to 1929 and…
Rocketeer Podcast episode 98 — From Pulp Hero to Modern Legend: Horsesense Hank and the Evolving Jive of “Scientific Pioneer” Between 1940 and 1942, Nelson S. Bond wrote a short series for Amazing Stories featuring a lanky farmer named “Horsesense”…
Pulp Art Composition Explained: How Structure Quietly Guides the Eye. This week on the Rocketeer Podcast, I’m discussing structure, specifically the structure found in pulp art. Art History I’ve been a student of classical art for a long time, and…
This week’s Rocketeer was about artwork, specifically of pulp illustrator Julian Krupa, a staple of the Amazing Story issues of the late 1930s and 1940s. Krupa’s work was perfect for the moment, and I’ve wanted to show it off for…
Something I’ve been thinking about This is a piece of microfiction I wrote as tribute to two stories, one by Henry Kuttner and the other by James Thurber. I’d written it a few years ago and then stumbled upon it…
