It’s that time again, Boils and Ghouls!! Yes. Terror Trader’s Gathering of Ghouls is back in town and 01Publishing is happy to be a part of the celebration!! Come by, say “hi” and pick up some awesome books and artwork. We’re located at Booth #57. This will mark our third year attenting Terror Trader events and it has become the highlight of our year!Read More →
It has come to our attention that Upstream Reviews has listed Ridiculum as one of their Editor’s Choice Best Books of 2023. “Equal parts top-tier golden era pulp anthology and work of historical preservation, this first entry into 01 Publishing’s Immortal Classics line deserves to establish itself as a seminal single-volume introduction to the some of the greatest selections of the genre’s early roots.”Michael Gallagher, the nominating editor shared “The book is truly, a delight. Finney’s choices of entries are superb, with stories whose humor holds up nearly a century later.” Thank you Upstream Reviews for this amazing honor. You can check them out andRead More →
Publisher’s Weekly Booklife section recently reviewed Boobs of Steel for the October release of their magazine! “Finney (author of Tabula Rosa) begins his Boobs of Steel series with an exploration of the Amazon archetype and its literary, creative, and cultural influence. “Classic superheroes have been systematically insulted, debased, and then replaced by so-called ‘inclusive and diverse’ females,” he writes, asserting that those changes have negatively impacted comics. Finney looks at examples, past and present, of comic and film’s female icons, including notables like She-Hulk, Xena, and, the “seed from which all our modern action heroines sprung from,” Wonder Woman—taking note of their symbolism as well asRead More →
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!If you’ve read comics, played video games, love sci-fi & fantasy, or just simply have been paying attention, you may have noticed the Rainbow Mafia hates women—especially those with a bountiful cup size. And if that busty woman is portrayed as heroic, they’ll hate her even more. We’ve all heard the complaints… “Lara Croft’s boobs objectify women!” “Power Girl’s cleavage is offensive!” “Anime girls are fascist patriarchal blah blah blah!” What if I told you Cancel Culture’s war against beauty, femininity, and specifically BREASTS can be traced all the way back to 1954 when psychologist (and avid Marxist) Dr. Fredric Wertham published SeductionRead More →
Boobs of Steel: The tendency for the strongest physical female fighter in a group or cast to also have the largest breasts.-TV Tropes Lara Croft. Power Girl. Tifa Lockhart. They’re three of the most loved and loathed characters in all pop-culture. Since the late 1990s all three have also been favorite targets for outraged feminists and woke keyboard warriors who believe that a bountiful cup size is a crime against humanity. Within these pages, sci-fi author J. Ishiro Finney chronicles the history of the Boobs of Steel trope, its associated archetypes, and the impact these Amazons have had on our art, literature, and cultural landscape. OftenRead More →
Chris Braly at BleedingFool interviewed author J.Ishiro Finney and editor Kat Rocha on the first entry in the Immortal Classics series of pulp anthologies. Ridiculum is now available on Amazon.com READ THE INTERVIEW: https://bleedingfool.com/interviews/resurrecting-laughter-publisher-unearths-lost-subgenre-of-pulp-sci-fi/Read More →
Inspired by YouTuber Raz0rfist’s call for us to reject modernity and embrace the pulps of yesteryear, RIDICULUM is the first in the ongoing anthology series from 01Publishing. Entitled, IMMORTAL CLASSICS, the series promises to provide high-quality / low-price anthologies that collect the best of the Golden Age pulps and make them readily available. Drunk Martian frogs! Time traveling troublemakers! Absurdist dystopian societies! Hot inter-dimensional redheads! Marxist Robots! And of course… Hyperintelligent mice toppling the national security state! Let’s face it, we live in an age where there is too much doom and gloom on the bookstore shelves. But not to worry, my friends! Author J.Read More →
01Publishing is very excited to announce the publication of Richard Steele’s latest book, Robomancer: Stupid Romances Written by an Idiot. Available now exclusively on Amazon.com Can Skynet write an effective romance story? How about erotica? In Robomancer one bestselling romancer novelist puts this to the test with hilarious results! But if you think that’s heartbreaking, wait until you read about the love triangle between a sassy and successful BBW woman, an alien warlord, and ninja Hitler! It may be too much for your heart to bear!All these answers and more can be found in the pages of Robomancer! ROBOMANCER is a collection of standalone romanceRead More →
01Publishing is happy to announce we’ll be haunting the isles at Phoenix FEARcon this October. Stay tuned for more information.Read More →