The Shadow of the Vulture by Robert E. Howard (1934)

The first appearance of the character Red Sonia. Source.

Chuck Jones’ Rules for Writing Road Runner Cartoons

More.

Raemaekers Cartoon History of the War, compiled by J Murray Allison (1918)

Source. Allegorical figures and cartoons acting as reportage. Graphic and heartrending.

The Other World: The Societies and Governments of the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac (In Translation) (1657)

Source. Parodic anthropology from the moon!

Flapper Poem (1922, Stanford University, Anonymous)

Source.

c/f Dorthy Parker's Flapper Poems

Penny Dreadful Covers from The American Women's Dime Novel Project

Source.

Seasonal Greetings: Penny Dreadfuls

Source 1.

Source 2.

Astonishing Fan Fiction Series I: Ghosts (X-Files fanfic, 1997)

Source.

Thanks, Cosplay.

German Pulp Covers Under German Totalitarianism

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Superman Says "Hop on the Welfare Wagon" 1952 Comic Public Service Message

Source.

I Fell for a Commie (1953 Love Secrets Comic)

In full.

Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann (English and German, with Original Illustrations)

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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete, by Francois Rabelais

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Enemies of the Five Year Plan (1931)

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The Landowner glares like a ferocious watchdog

The Kulak [rich peasant] snorts through his bulbous nose

The habitual drunk boozes his woes away

The [village] priest frantically whoops and and wails.

The corrupt journalist spits and hisses

The capitalist sharpens his tusks

The Menshevik rages like a madman

The White Soldier effs and blinds.

These dogs that have not been thrown into jail -

Everyone defending the bad old ways -

Put an evil curse on the Five-Year Plan

And declare war on it.

They threaten its disruption, realising

That it spells their utter ruination.

- Demyan Bedny.

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero by Otto Rank (1914)

Source.

Title Page
I. Introduction

II. The Circle of Myths

Sargon
Moses
Karna
Oedipus
Paris
Telephus
Perseus
Gilgamesh
Cyrus
Tristan
Romulus
Hercules
Jesus
Siegfried
Lohengrin

III. The Interpretation of the Myths

Lazzi

Source.

Lazzi are essentially "gags" or stock jokes which can be added into a commedia dell'arte play or performance in order to ensure the comic action keeps pace. Traditionally the writers and actors in a troupe would have lazzi memorized so that they could insert them where needed. This trick kept up in theater into the motion picture era, and some film and TV writers still use stock jokes to enhance their work.

The World of Thomas Nast

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Google Images.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

Weird Tales. Vol. I by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1885)
(The Cremona Violin; The Fermata; Signor Formica; The Sand-man; The Entail; Arthur's Hall)
Weird Tales, Vol. II by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1885)
(The Doge and Dogess; Master Martin the Cooper; Mademoiselle de Scudéri; Gambler's Luck; Master Johannes Wacht)
Mlle de Scuderi (1819)
The Story of the Hard Nut (1819)
Councillor Krespel (1819)
The Sandman (1817)

Drawings

Pin Up Galleries: Alberto Vargas, George Quaintance, Enoch Bolles, Lynn Harrison and Chéri Hérouard

Alberto Vargas
Gallery.

Enoch Bolles

on Pulp Artists 

Chéri Hérouard
Illustrations for La Vie Parisienne on Flikr
Other Work on Flikr

Google Images

George Quaintance

Gallery 1

Gallery 2

Lynn Harrison

ArtSlant - Mystery of Lynn Harrison Creative Cartoonist of the Pulps

See Also: The History of Pin-Up Art

Etexts of old pulp magazines

Searchable by Author and magazine. Extensive.