Art: Dave Stokes Writer, Vito Delsante’s new noir pulp story, Tonight Down By The River debuts at http://welcometotripcity.com/2012/02/tonight-down-by-the-river/ In Tonight, Down By The River, a rendevouz leads to murder. Art: Dave Stokes She wasn’t afraid. It wasn’t their first date and while she was as nervous as she always was when they met, she wasn’t…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT- Reviews of All Things Pulp by Tommy Hancock WHAT IT WAS George Pelecanos Little, Brown and Company There are a few tricks to building a character that can maintain and entertain the full length of a novel. Those and a few other skills come into play when developing a lead that will…
February 10, 2012 NEW Radio Set: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Volume 4 “Get this and get it straight: crime is a sucker’s road, and those who travel it end up in the gutter, the prison, or the grave…” Those words opened each episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe starring Gerald Mohr in…
The Shadow: Blood And Judgement by Howard Chaykin was originally published by DC Comics in the eighties around the same time as other gritty takes on characters in comics such as Watchmen and The Dark Knight. This story was last collected in 1991. Now, twenty-one years later, Dynamite – the current license holders of The…
Charles Saunders Makes History—Again! A review of Damballa, by Charles Saunders. Guest reviewer Joe Bonadonna Charles Saunders created Imaro, the first black sword and sorcery hero, over 30 years ago. He made history with that one, folks. Now, with his new novel, Damballa, Saunders has once again made history—giving us the first black crime-fighting superhero…
Sequential Pulp Comics Launch in September            Sequential Pulp Comics, a highly anticipated new graphic-novel line distributed by Dark Horse, will launch in September!This new line will bring to life works of classic literature, 1950s paperbacks, and other stories. The series comes out of the…
MOONSTONE BRINGS MYSTERY, NOIR, AND COOL BACK WITH ANGELTOWN COLLECTION! Moonstone Entertainment, Inc., known for innovative books and comics starring classic as well as original characters, sets the standard once more for the Private Investigator story with its release of ANGELTOWN: THE NATE HOLLIS INVESTIGATIONS written by Gary Phillips, Interiors by Shawn Martinbrough, Cover by…
PARKER, Part 1: First ImpressionsVan Allen Plexico In this series of articles, Van Allen Plexico explores the history of Richard Stark’s (Donald E. Westlake’s) criminal pulp noir character, “Parker,” in his many appearances across various media. In this first installment, we discover Parker’s origins and earliest appearances.When we first meet Parker, we see him as…
NoHo Noir is fiction that’s not for the faint-hearted. Written by Katherine Tomlinson and illustrated by Mark Satchwill, these tales are weekly walks on the wild side, narratives torn from the bleeding heart of North Hollywood and Toluca Lake; stories of love and death and everything that lies between… Check out this most original regional…
Merrill Markoe (the person who dated David Lettermen before dating him was controversial) has unearthed the most existential episode of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon ever. If you’ll excuse me, I have to go kill myself now.
Marvel has provided us with preview pages to Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ latest crime caper, Incognito. The publisher describes the new series as a “twisted mash up of noir and super-heroics will leave your jaw on the floor! What if you were an ex-super villain hiding out in Witness Protection… but all you could…
In an act that almost feels like it should have the name "Joss Whedon" attached to it, the Jim Henson Company has announced the development of a new film project called The Happytime Murders. This original film noir murder mystery will fall under the company’s Henson Alternative banner, a division that develops projects not intended…
