Random Image Dump # 34: Pulp Art Edition

Do you take your orange juice with, or without, pulp? Ive always preferred the smoother, “no pulp” drinking experience, myself.

While I don’t care for pulp in my OJ, I’m all for it in my art. In fact, the pulpier the better when it comes to pulp art. I love pulp art. For a while now, I’ve been thinking of doing a regular pulp art post, just share a few pieces and let y’all gaze in wonderment at some awesomely evocative art.

For now, here’s a start. It’s been gratifying to see pulp gaining in reputation over the years. Like comic books, it was once considered trash, but now it’s on the receiving end of scholarly articles and museums exhibits. While we’re happy to see this mass media art form elevated in the public consciousness, we pulp connoisseurs never needed academics or curators to remind us of what we always knew: pulp art is indeed art.

Now let’s kick back, light an unfiltered Lucky Strike, and gaze at a selection of art featuring the delicious dames and gruff gangsters of pulp, along with a few horror and sci-fi shenanigans too. Much of the art here is of the vintage Golden Age of Pulp variety, while others are more modern takes on the venerable pulp tradition.