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Hello. From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.
This month we're talking about women of science fiction.
These women inspire us to imagine impossible worlds, alien creatures, and fantastical inventions,
revealing our deepest fears and hopes for the future.
Today we're talking about the Queen of the Pulps, a woman who drew sci-fi magazine covers so risqué that readers assumed she was a man.
Let's talk about Margaret Brundage.
Margaret was born in 1900 in Chicago.
Her father passed away when she was young.
She was raised primarily by her mother and grandmother, who were both devout Christian scientists.
After graduating high school, Margaret enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
She studied fashion for two years, but left before completing her degree.
By 1925, Margaret had a job in the fashion industry, drawing designs using pen and ink.
Margaret also took part in the World of Chicago Labor Activism.
Across the city, people were coming together to talk about how society could change, and Margaret was among their ranks.
She was passionate about advancing equality through art, and she would often go to the Dill Pickle Club.
The club was a speakeasy where people would come together to talk politics, art, and current events.
The regulars included Upton Sinclair, Emma Goldman, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
It was at this club that Margaret met Byron Slim Brundage, a leftist revolutionary who she married in 1927.
Margaret and Byron had one son together, but Byron was mostly absent, and Margaret raised her son with the help of her mother.
By the 1930s, Margaret's career as a designer took a dive due to the Great Depression.
She started looking for other ways to support her family as an artist.
She found that other way in 1932.
She turned to magazines, specifically Weird Tales, a Chicago-based sci-fi pulp magazine.
Margaret presented her portfolio to the editor, and she was hired to design their covers.
Weird Tales published stories that ran the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror gamut—alien encounters, ghosts, the occult.
Her authors included sci-fi legends in the making like H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury.
Margaret didn't know much about sci-fi when she started working at Weird Tales, but she quickly learned what was appealing to audiences.
Margaret's covers usually featured provocative scenes of young women caught up in some kind of wild situation, like a woman on the brink of being captured by a winged monster.
The women Margaret drew were alluring and sensuous.
Often, she drew them to be partially or fully in the nude.
These drawings were soft and almost glamorous-looking.
This was in part because Margaret drew with pastels at a time when other illustrators used paint.
Margaret would read the stories and sketch out a few options for the cover.
When the editor made his choice, Margaret would then get to work on the full pastel illustration.
Fixative sprays to keep the pastel on paper hadn't been invented yet.
So Margaret's drawings were incredibly delicate.
To get them safely to the Weird Tales office, she would place them in a small box with a cardboard backing and hand-deliver them.
She signed the drawings M. Brundage, and most readers assumed she was a man.
Margaret's covers were not without controversy. Some readers criticized the coverage for their blatant sexuality.
And when readers found out that Margaret was a woman, that caused even more outrage.
People just couldn't imagine that a woman could draw such risqué scenes.
But Margaret could, and throughout the 1930s, she sold more than 60 cover illustrations to Weird Tales.
In 1938, the magazine moved its headquarters to New York.
Margaret continued to draw covers for the publication here and there for a few years before eventually stopping.
She remained in Chicago, living with her son and making art.
Margaret's work was never as widely circulated.
She died at the age of 75 in 1976.
She was largely forgotten in the pulp scene.
But Margaret's work was brought to the forefront again in 2013 when the book The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage was published, introducing her bold and provocative style to a new generation.
All month, we're talking about women of science fiction.
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Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator.
Talk to you tomorrow.
