Mexican Pulp Art

Mexican Pulp Art

• Unveiling Mexican Pulp Novel Covers: A Pop Culture Treasure Trove
• Mexican Pulp Art: A Sensational Collection of 60s-70s Paintings
• Mexican Pulp Art: Joining Feral House's Pop Culture Rediscoveries

<DIV><p>The lurid cover art of Mexican pulp novels are a pop culture revelation. Never before seen in an English- or even Spanish-language collection are the often surreal and psychedelic images of extraterrestrials, robots, dinosaurs, dastardly killers, Zorro, Santo, and many other icons from stories involving suspense, mystery, romance, and the supernatural.</p><p>Collected by Minneapolis’ Bobbette Axelrod (owner of the Sister Fun toy shop) and Baltimore’s Ted Frankel (proprietor of the American Visionary Art Museum’s store, Sideshow), <I>Mexican Pulp Art </I>presents the most striking examples of this sensational art form of the 1960s and 1970s.</p><p>Researcher Maria Cristina Tavera’s introduction tells us about the original publishing companies, artists, and comic story lines of <I>Micro Legends, Micro Suspense, Micro Mystery, </I>and <I>The Unexpected. </I></p><p> <I>Mexican Pulp Art </I>joins Feral House’s award-winning collections of pop culture history —<I>Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties, It’s A Man’s World: Men’s Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps, </I>and <I>Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin</I>—in rediscovering extraordinary forgotten worlds of visual splendor.</p></DIV>