Welcome to Airship 27

My name is Ron Fortier, and I have been a professional writer for over forty-five years. I have worked on comic book projects such as The Hulk, Popeye, Rambo and Peter Pan. With my two most popular comic series being The Green Hornet and The Terminator (with Alex Ross). With Ardath Mayhar I penned two TSR fantasy novels, and in 2001 I had my first play, a World War II romantic comedy, produced.

This site serves as a portfolio of the work I’ve done to date, as a showcase for projects in the works, and as home for my online Journal (below), which will be updated frequently.

I am currently writing and producing pulp novels and short stories for various publishers and have several movie scripts floating around Hollywood looking for a home, and if that isn’t enough, I also have a review column at the www.pulpfictionreviews.blogspot.com website.

A devoted grandfather of six, at 75, I am thrilled to be part of the new web-comic evolution. Part of this joy is in the realization of a life long dream, that of becoming a pulp writer.

Thanks for visiting, and enjoy your stay.

FUNDING GOAL REACHED!

8 May | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we’re starting this week’s Flight Log with the good news that our Funding Campaign for BEYOND THE STARS reached its set goal of $750 this past Monday.

So with that done, our creative juices now turn to getting the sixth and final issue all wrapped up. But first we need to say…

THANKS YOU LOYAL AIRMEN, from the Air Chief, Andrea Bormida and Mike Belcher. As ever, none of us can do any of this fun stuff without your continued support. We never ever take it for granted and remain sincerely grateful. You Loyal Airmen are the best!!!

FUN ON FCBD

Once again, the Air Chief and Val were guest at our local comic shop this past Saturday for Free Comic Book Day, an event we look forward to every year. And as always all our Fort Collins and Loveland fans show up eager to see what’s new on the Air Chief’s table. This year the big sellers were chapter one of the Brother Bones Origin Graphic novel and issue # 2 of The Crimson Nun.

Of course we weren’t the only guests, as Fort Collins is the home to quite a few comic book creators. Among those there with us were fellow writers Aaron Powers (above left) and Todd Jones (above right) publisher of Wicked Awesome Tales. Always great to hang with these two amigos.

The biggest surprise of all was the return of two dear friends, Jon & Darcy Bonjour. The Air Chief first met Jon when he was still a teenager and he and his sister Jamie were making their own comics. Over the years we became friends and Jon even illustrated a Blimp & Turtle back-up story for an issue of Mr. Jigsaw. Then a few years ago he met Darcy, they fell in love and married. Then they up and moved to Texas and we lost touch with them. Seeing them setting up next to us as con neighbor was a truly wonderful surprise. We then learned they have moved back to Fort Collins after several years of globe-trotting from Texas to Hong Kong, on to Thailand and the New Zealand where they spent a year living and working. And now they are home and we couldn’t be happier. Jon is creative as ever and the Air Chief looks forward to lots more coffee shop get togethers. Finally, we hope all you Loyal Airmen also had similar experiences at your own local comic shops.

MY FAVORITE COMIC SERIES

If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, Loyal Airmen, then you are by now well aware my favorite comic book series is “Mike Belcher’s The Man in the Mask.” So you have to know how delighted we were when the mail arrived a few days ago with both issues # 6 and # 7. Wahoo. Mike is a real old fashion comic creator and he does Man in the Mask mostly all by himself. That is writing, penciling, inking and lettering. Every now and then he does get help from his son, Aiden, on the coloring but can fill that job if required. The Air Chief has had the privilege of working with Mike on several small strips in the past and it was a real treat. In fact, Mike and the Air Chief have a big project due to be announced publicly. Hopefully before the end of this month. Meanwhile, as for these latest release we have Tommy Franklin taking on an arsonist in issue # 6 and then in #7 he investigates an underground, illegal fighting club. Trust me, you enjoy both of them. If you’re interested in picking them up, simply got to (IndyPlanet.com) as they carry every single issue. Or better yet, got the Man in the Mask Facebook page. Tell them the Air Chief sent you.

ANTARCTIC PRESS’ MR.JIGSAW & TOMORROW GIRL

Remember last year when we announced we’d written a Mr.Jigsaw story in which he teamed up with Antarctic Press’ Tomorrow Girl? And that we, yours truly and artist Gary Kato were going to do a version of the script and that Ben Dunn would produce one for Antarctic. Ours was completed rather quickly, being like all our Jiggy issues, in black and white. Meanwhile Ben created a really cool add for it for the back of “The Crimson Nun” # 1. (See above left.) So here’s the update, Ben relegated the script to a new artists wanting to work for Antarctic and he is slowly turning in pages. Above right is this person’s page number # 1. Whereas we don’t know his/her name, but the manga like styling, our best guest is the artist is from the East, most likely the Philippines, which over the past years has produced lots of fantastic graphic artists who’ve gone on to work in American comics. Note, once the Antarctic issue is finished being illustrated and lettered, it will be colored. Honestly, Loyal Airmen, we can’t wait to see the final completed issue. We’ll keep you all posted.

THE CRIMSON NUN # 3

COMPASS CHARTER SCHOOL CON FORT COLLINS 9th May

Finally, tomorrow the Air Chief, along with fellow comic creators Zane DeGaine and Mike Baron will be guest at the Fort Collins Compass Charter School and their one day comic con put on by the teachers and students. Looks to be tons of fun. The Air Chief will be doing a morning workshop on “How to Make Comics” and Mike will do one in the afternoon. (https://compasscomiccon.com/) Going to be tons of fun.

And there you have it, Loyal Airmen. As you can see, May has kicked into a truly busy month here at Hangar 27. Lots of activity which we love. Thanks for stopping by and as usual, we hope to see you back here next Friday. Till then, God bless. Ron Over & Out!