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WINDY CITY LAUNCHES
NEW PULP SUNDAY
For the first time since its inception, the Windy City Pulp
& Paper Convention will be devoting a five hour block to the ever popular
New Pulp Movement in what they have labeled New Pulp Sunday.
"Given the number of New Pulp creators and publishers
that attend our convention, we felt devoting a day of programming to the
energetic world of New Pulp was natural and would be fun for attendees.
Hopefully it will introduce some folks to the wide variety of material being
published today under the New Pulp banner." Doug Ellis, co-founder and promoter of the Windy City Paper
& Pulp Convention.
To that end Ellis reached to out to several of his New Pulp
contacts, amongst them Ron Fortier, Managing Editor of Airship 27 Productions
and Tommy Hancock, Managing Editor of Pro Se Productions. With a list of their colleagues
planning on attending this year’s convention, Fortier and Hancock put together
a program schedule that would include three panels and eight authors’
readings. Joining them in these
events are noted New Pulp Creators Chris Bell, Rob Davis, Joe Bonadonna, David
C. Smith, Wayne Reinagel, William Patrick Maynard, David White and Terrence
McCauley.
For the past four years the Windy City Convention has hosted
the Pulp Factory Awards, given out by one of several New Pulp groups that
celebrate the best in new pulp fiction and artwork. “The creation of New Pulp Sunday is a logical expansion of
the con’s support for all things pulp related,” said Fortier. “We are thrilled at this recognition of
New Pulp and promise all attendees a five hour block of truly wonderful
readings and panels that clearly demonstrate the continued evolution of pulp
fiction from the old to the new.”
Hancock added, “Everyone involved in the New Pulp Movement
knows where the roots of what we do lie, exactly in the fiction that the Windy
City Pulp And Paper Convention has helped preserve and promote since its
inception. It’s an honor for
those of us who feel like we’re walking in the shadows of giants to be welcomed
into the Convention program in such a way. It’s also an opportunity to let fans of Pulp of all kinds
know that the sort of stories they enjoy in the classic Pulps are still being
written today.”
The complete, detailed New Pulp Sunday schedule will appear
in the convention’s program booklet.
Windy City Pulp and
Paper Convention
April 12 – 14
Westin Lombard
Yorktown Center
70 Yorktown Center
Lombard, IL 60148
