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CELEBRATING GRAPHIC ART

  • On 23 Feb | '2018

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we hope all of you who live in cold zones are surviving winter’s last few months and keeping warm.  This week we want to shine a light on a really amazing internet website, DeviantArt.com – It is a place where hundreds of amazing artists post galleries of their works and trust the Air Chief, if you bother to visit the site, you’ll end up spending hours just going through the various galleries and marveling at all that wonderful graphic art.  Anyway, every day the managers of the site pick one single piece of newly posted artwork and put it on the front page of the site, sort of giving it a special spotlight, if you will. It is a singular honor for any artist to get the Daily Deviation honor.

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One day this past week that honor went to artist Chris Kohler for the above illustration. It is from the new Purple Scar novel we will soon be publishing, as written by Gene Moyers.  As in all our Airship 27 Productions novel, each contains 9 illustrations. The above was illustration # 4 and Chris posted it to his gallery at DeviantArt. Imagine his surprise when he saw it highlighted as their piece of the day.  And deservedly so. Chris is a truly talented artist and his attention to detailing out of this world. Last year he won the coveted Public Factory Award for Best Interior Illustrations and he continues to produce outstanding graphic art. So the Air Chief and everyone at Airship 27 tips our pulp fedoras to an amazing artist, Congratulations Chris.

We started our second HOW TO WRITE COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS this past Wed. night at the Front Range Community College.  We have three enthusiastic students; Olivia, Max & Scott and it looks to be a fun ten weeks for sure. The Air Chief loves sharing his love of comics with others.

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One of the finest things we did last year with Airship 27 Productions was reprint the late Mark Justice’s weird western novel, the Dead Sheriff.  Above is a picture of that edition being held up by Mark’s widow, Norma Kay. At the time of his passing, Mark left an unfinished manuscript intended to be Dead Sheriff # 2. It’s subtitle is, Cannibal Carnage. This past week, the Air Chief began reading/editing through that manuscript with the intent, upon picking up where Mark left off and, with his guidance from on high, finishing this second book. So far we are thirty pages into the manuscript and it is as wild and crazy as was book one.  So do send along your good wishes that the Air Chief does this project the right way, honoring a dear friend we lost way too soon.

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Lastly, we’ve a new Sherlock Holmes anthology on the way, volume 11 to be exact. Here’s a sneak peek at one of Rob Davis’ amazing illustrations. Hopefully book will be out in another week or two. Stay tuned.

Ron – Over & Out!

 

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