He has also written comic book stories and short stories about The Phantom for Moonstone Books from 2003 to the present.

In the 1970s, he wrote several novels based on Lee Falk's The Phantom for Avon Books, using the pseudonym 'Frank Shawn' (a play on his wife and son's names). His crime and science fiction works include tales about robots and historical Hollywood figures, such as Groucho Marx. The characteristic style of his work is satire and anarchic humor. Goulart's fiction is characterized by several themes, including technology gone wrong (usually through incompetence rather than malice) and protagonists with superhuman powers. Gwynplaine MacIntyre illustrated Ron Goulart's story 'The Robot Who Came to Dinner' in Analog (July–August 2002). Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazines (1972) is his best known non-fiction book.į.

and other magazines, along with his book review column for Venture Science Fiction Magazine. He then wrote dozens of novels and countless short stories, spanning genres and using a variety of pennames He contributed to P.S. In the early 1960s, Goulart wrote the text for Chex Press, a newspaper parody published on Ralston Purina cereal boxes (Wheat Chex, Rice Chex, Corn Chex). His early career in advertising and marketing influenced most of his work. Goulart's first professional publication was a 1952 reprint of the SF story 'Letters to the Editor' in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction this parody of a pulp magazine letters column was originally published in the University of California, Berkeley's Pelican. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and worked there as an advertising copywriter in San Francisco while beginning to write fiction. Goulart was born in Berkeley, California, on January 13, 1933. Jamieson, Josephine Kains, Jillian Kearny, Howard Lee, Zeke Masters, Frank S. He worked on novels and novelizations (and other works) being published under various pseudonyms such as: Kenneth Robeson, Con Steffanson, Chad Calhoun, R. Ronald Joseph Goulart ( / ˈ ɡ uː l ɑːr t/ ) (Janu– January 14, 2022) was an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy, and science fiction author. Goulart in 2009 at the South Street SeaportĬhad Calhoun, R.

The Tin Angel by Ron Goulart