The 23rd Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention will be held on April 5-7, 2024, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center, located at 70 Yorktown Center in Lombard, Illinois.
The large dealer room will welcome around 100 dealers from the US, Canada, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. There will be 180 tables with pulps, vintage paperbacks, science fiction, fantasy and mystery hardcovers, Golden and Silver Age comics, original art, movie memorabilia, and more.
The art show will feature a display of European science fiction and fantasy art from Collection Rohrwild. Art from this collection has been displayed at galleries and museums in Europe, but never before in the U.S. The featured European artists are Johnny Bruck, Alfred Kelsner, Swen Papenbrock, Karl Stephan, Rudolf Sieber-Lonati, and Vicente Ballestar. Other pulp and paperback art will be on display as well.
The film programming, curated by Ed Hulse, will run Friday and Saturday, showing movies and serials based on pulp stories. The evening programming will include presentations on the weird menace pulps and a tribute to the late comic book historian, Roger Hill, well known for his work on EC comics. Sunday morning will see New Pulp Sunday, programming devoted to the vibrant and colorful world of New Pulp organized by Ron Fortier of Airship 27 Productions. All attendees will get a copy of the convention book, put out by Tom Roberts of Black Dog Books.
As usual, they will host auctions Friday and Saturday nights, featuring the estate of collector Robert Weinberg and material from several other consignors. Auction highlights include:
The complete auction catalog is available at windycitypulpandpaper.com.