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THIS WEEK ON THE BOOK CAVE! Art and Ric visit with Pulp Author Joel Jenkins about two of his books, among various other Jenkins trivia and tangents! Also, Barry Reese covers all the news that is ALL PULP NEWS, including an exclusive or two!!
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Announcing Tales of the Shadowmen 7: Femmes Fatales, from Black Coat Press
US$22.95/GBP 14.99 – 6×9 tpb, 324 pages – ISBN-13: 978-1-935558-44-6
on sale: December 1, 2010 / cover by Phil Cohen
This seventh volume of the only international anthology devoted to paying homage to the world’s most fantastic heroes from popular literature spotlights the females of the species: beautiful, deadly, tragic, accursed, enticing… all gathered here for an amazing collection of new adventures…
Tremble as Christine Daae meets Herbert West the Reanimator and Dr. Loveless Nurse Ratched! Experience thrills as Milady tries to outwit Captain Blood and Lady Blakeney the Black Coats! Watch in awe as Becky Sharp foils the designs of Sâr Dubnotal and Amelia Peabody those of mad King Tut! Wonder as the Bride of Frankenstein challenges the power of Dr. Omega and the vampire countess Marcian Gregoryi that of Victor Frankenstein and the Illuminati! Also starring Carmilla! Catherine Levendeur! Rosa Klebb! Fah Lo Suee! And the Eyes Without A Face!
With a foreword by Xavier Mauméjean and a portfolio by Matt Haley.
My tale is an entry in my “Road to Wold Newton” series which kicked off with last year’s Scarlet Pimpernel story “Is He in Hell?” (appearing both in
Tales of the Shadowmen 6: Grand Guignol and slightly revised and expanded in The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions [Meteor House]).Contents:
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This article was just too cool not to be posted on ALL PULP! Please note, that this IS NOT AN ALL PULP ORIGINAL ARTICLE. The original article can be found at 
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/10/gary-phillips-on-writing-for-the-new-pulps.html
Gary Phillips, the L.A.-based author, is usually considered a mystery writer. He’s the author of the Ivan Monk and Martha Chainey mystery series, edited the anthology “Orange County Noir” and is on the board of the Southern California chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.It seems there are the old-school pulp enthusiasts, who want a certain kind of good guys versus bad guys story, with none of those post-modern, angst-driven, fallacy-prone main characters. Then there are the more entrenched comics fans, who don’t really give a damn about the historical pulp characters, so are wondering just what the fuss is about.
He explains how he’s creating the character Jimmy Christopher, Operator 5, somewhere in the middle: the book promises to include secrecy, relationship troubles, father issues plus fighting for his country and real-life Depression-era characters. The character will make his first appearance as a back-up feature in The Spider, which debuts in January 2011.
— Carolyn Kellogg
Image: Moonstone Books
New York, NY October 6, 2010: Moonstone Books and Captain Action Enterprises, LLC announce the Captain Action Winter Special. This oversized, stand-alone issue, on sale January 2011, is 48 pages and priced at $4.99. Four stories are included:
Covers by Mark Wheately and Ruben Procopio. Moonstone is also offering a special retailer incentive. Retailers who order 4+ copies, receive one FREE alternate Ruben Procopio Green Hornet/Captain Action cover.
After a very very VERY long time (over a decade and a half) dealing with the concept of electronic publishing and how it was going to come about– particularly how it was going to be adopted– I finally figured out how to describe it at yesterday’s ICv2 Conference on Comics and Digital. And sorry to disappoint Mr. Gold, but it’s not from Blazing Saddles.
Electronic publishing and distribution, always far off in the distance, not here yet, not here yet…
…wait, it’s here already? And it’s doing what to the industry?
See if you can figure out who represents who.
From Jason Butkowski, Managing Editor
Episodes from the Zero Hour! creators Anthony Schiavino and Jay Butkowski are going to be at Paranormal Books and Curiosities on Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park, NJ, this Sunday from 2 – 4 to kick off their New Jersey/tri-state area book signing tour. We should have more dates to announce soon in Hoboken and Manasquan, and we’re in the works to break into the Manhattan and Philadelphia indie book stores.
Written by Teel James Glenn
Edited by Rob Peerce
Author’s website at theurbanswaashbuckler.com
The Book is Fantasy/ pulp adventure/mystery
Published by BooksForABuck
Publisher’s email: booksforbuck.com
Isbn#(ebook) 978-1-60215-123-9
(paper) 978-1-60215-126-0
Published June 2010
198 Pages
Priced at 14.99 pod and $3.99 for e book version
Submitted by the author
Synopsis:
Chasing a headline is just a job for ace reporter Moxie Donnovan, but sometimes those headlines turn on him and bite. Moxie, along with his sexy better half, Maxi (a theater and film actor) face a tiger-sized panther, mechanical gunmen who support the master race, Irish Fae with the urge to pay Moxie back for the loot his grandfather took from them, murder and a hypnotist intent on re-filming Ben Hur.
Author Teel James Glenn writes a compelling fantasy adventure inspired by the pulp fiction of the 1930s (with evil Nazis, sinister magic, and a wise-cracking and sympathetic protagonist in Moxie). Although Glenn’s work pays homage to the classics of the 1930s, he gives Maxi, Moxie’s love interest a far more active role than typical in the stories actually written in that era, helping to make his story resonate with the modern reader.
Glenn has done his research. Language, period details, stage and movie references, and social settings all ring true, but his emphasis is on the story rather than on the history. Magic plays an integral role in the Maxi/Moxie adventures, but somehow Moxie remains a skeptic, always looking for the human explanation for what’s going on around him.
Written by Teel James Glenn
Edited by Rob Peerce
Author’s website at theurbanswaashbuckler.com
The Book is Fantasy/ pulp adventure/mystery
Published by BooksForABuck
Publisher’s email: booksforbuck.com
Isbn#(ebook) 978-1-60215-108-6
(paper) 978-1-60215-109-3
Published October 14, 2009
141 Pages
Priced at 14.99 pod and $3.99 for e book version
Submitted by the author
Synopsis:
Since mankind crept out of the caves, violence and injustice has been a common thread. And since those early times, the most harmed have called out for justice. For those most harmed, most in need, a strange object offers hope. Made from the skin of its first owner, the Skullmask provides its wearer with the knowledge, skill, speed, and intelligence of the countless others who have called on its power. But the Skullmask demands its price, and the Skullmask only appears when all else fails, and in those horrible cases where Revenge and Justice are one.
WEIRD TALES OF THE SKULLMASK follows the Skullmask from a western town where rich ranchers terrorize farmers and their Mexican-born workers, on to a Caribbean island where Voodoo Loa and zombies hold sway, then to the city-room of a major newspaper where a reporter faces off against the German-American Bund, and finally to a post-WWII drug smuggling operation. In each case, ordinary justice has failed…but the Skullmask offers hope.
Author Teel James Glenn just happens to be a professional fight choreographer, jouster and veteran of fifty renaissance faires, scores of films and hundreds of T.V. appearances.
He also the author of several dozen books, including , Death at Dragonthroat Sister Warrior, The Daemonhold Curse, Of Swords and Sorcery and Tales of a Warrior Priest. The Escape Artist
This may be the shortest review ComicMix has ever run: take everything I said about Kirby Krackle and their method of applying lyrics that reference comics and video games to catchy tunes (rather than vice versa) earlier this year, replace “rock” with “hip-hop,” keep the intelligence, sense of humor, and sheer fun, and call it a day. But that would be doing Adam WarRock‘s new album “The War For Infinity” a grave disservice.
As you might guess from his naming scheme, Adam WarRock (real name: Eugene Ahn) takes a lot of inspiration for “The War For Infinity” from the Jim Starlin cosmic Marvel epic [[[The Infinity Gauntlet]]], with Adam WarRock and Demonos (played by guest artist Tribe One) standing in for Warlock and Thanos, respectively. In the universe of “The War For Infinity,” Demonos is a evil, arrogant self-described “legend” who’s given the Infinity Gauntlet and a second chance by the dark powers of the universe after Adam WarRock takes him down a peg in a rap battle.
The highlights of the story for me are the three Battle tracks (Introductions, Reprise, and Finale), which see Adam WarRock and Demonos taking turns on the mic and viciously tearing into each other. Sample verse: “You may have made it to the bonus round but you’re still going down/Only now, your foolery amuses me/There are six million ways to die/choose three.” That’s not to say the rest of the tracks are any slouch: Adam WarRock writes catchy and memorable lyrics, and producer Ruckus Roboticus puts everything together into a package that’s easy on the ears.
But my favorite song on the album, bar none, is The Silver Age, again featuring Tribe One. It’s not part of the WarRock/Demonos story, but it serves as sort of thesis statement for the whole album: they’re the Silver Age MCs, and they’re here to “bring back what Stan and Jack made” with innovative music and rhymes. It has a catchy beat, an incredibly memorable hook, and – best of all – Tribe One describes himself as a “Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing This Mic,” which is essentially the most perfect comic book reference I’ve ever heard.
I’m trying not to gush, but in case you couldn’t tell, I think the world of Adam WarRock and “The War For Infinity.” And for $10 ($12 for the recommended Deluxe version with remixes and a digital download), you get a ton of rock-solid, memorable hip-hop content that just happens to be about comic books. Better yet, it includes the bonus track “Ira Glass,” a really fun tribute to the “This American Life” host of the same name.
I didn’t mention Kirby Krackle at the start for nothing: the two are performing on stage together at the Rock Comic Con event this weekend. It’s an auspicious meeting, because while they work within different genres, they have one thing in common: awesome music with a slant towards the fandom.
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