PulpCovers

Mexican Pulp Art Covers Amaze With Gorilla Fights, Bee Women, Luchador Longings [Art]
Mexican Pulp Art Covers Amaze With Gorilla Fights, Bee Women, Luchador Longings [Art]
Mexican Pulp Art Covers Amaze With Gorilla Fights, Bee Women, Luchador Longings [Art]
I consider myself a pretty big fan of both masked luchadores and pulp magazine cover art, so you can imagine how excited I was when I found something that combined them. Over at the great Monster Brains Blog, Aeron Alfrey has unearthed a phenomenal collection of Mexican pulp magazine covers, featuring everything from invisible men fighting gorillas to killer robots to the most melodramatic ghosts
22 Amazing Pulp Covers:  Sex-Crazed Pirates, TV Tramps and Hot Dames on Cold Slabs!
22 Amazing Pulp Covers: Sex-Crazed Pirates, TV Tramps and Hot Dames on Cold Slabs!
22 Amazing Pulp Covers: Sex-Crazed Pirates, TV Tramps and Hot Dames on Cold Slabs!
For the past 70 years, comic books have often been considered one of the lower forms of popular art, so it's not really a surprise that my love of comics would lead me to an appreciation of the more over-the-top side of commercial illustration. I've mentioned my pure, undying love of the ridiculous art of the VHS box before, but there's one area that combines technical brilliance and lurid subject