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February 17, 2007

An Interview with Ryerson Johnson

by Will Murray. With the very gracious permission of Will Murray and Doug Ellis, I'm excited and pleased to present this interview with pulp fictioneer Ryerson Johnson.

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February 08, 2007

A Look at B.M. Bower's "Chip, of the Flying U"

Chip is one of that group of early westerns that founded the literary genre that's come to us today. Owen Wister's The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains was published in 1902. Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage was published in 1912. Chip was published solidly between these two literary benchmarks in 1906.

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February 03, 2007

Flaming London: Alternative Fictional History by Joe R. Lansdale

For those who like a tongue-in-cheek change of pace, Lansdale’s Flaming London may fit the bill. A sequel of sorts to his Zeppelins West (which featured, among others, Sitting Bull, Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill (his head, at least, which was floating in a jar of – well, I’ll leave that surprise to readers – atop a robot body), a zeppelin carrying his Wild West Show to Japan, samurai, Captain Nemo and his submersible -- the Naughty Lass (things are different in Lansdale’s world) -- Dr. Momo (better known as Dr. Moreau to us, thanks to H.G. Wells), an intelligent seal named Ned, and various others.

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February 01, 2007

Joe Kubert's Ape Man: From Newsprint to Glossy Stock Hardcover

Dark Horse has done Edgar Rice Burroughs’ fans and Joe Kubert’s fans a great service by collecting these stories from the beginning of National Periodicals’ (DC Comics) run of Tarzan comics (issues 207 through 214, published in 1972).

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