Airship27

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.

RUSH NEVER FADES

20 Feb | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, above is the picture of a big kid holding up his latest comic book, The Crimson Nun # 2 as published by Antarctic Press. Having been writing comics for well over fifty years, you might think that the release of a new one would be ho-hum stuff by now. But it’s not. Not one little bit. Taking these copies out of the mailing box last Saturday afternoon was a total rush for the 13 yr old spirit that still resides in me. To hold what I’d envisioned in my imagination, what Jesse Thomas brilliantly penciled, inked and colored and what Mike Belcher beautiful lettered, it was like the very first time again. And let’s not forget Jonathon Mcdaniels stunning cover or Ben Dunn, the guy who created this character in the first place. All of them contributed to what for me remains a labor of love. Anyone remember the Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi movie, The Blues Brother? In it, they are these two hip dudes traveling the country to help bringing back the spirit of the blues and rock and roll. At one point, Ackroyd proclaims, “We’re on a mission for God.” Well Loyal Airmen, when our Heavenly Father created the Air Chief, he chose to give him this gift of storytelling; a gift we’ve cherished and pray we use to His glory. Yes, the truth is…we’re on a mission for God.

And a fitting cap to our Crimson Nun section, we’re sure you all remember the beautiful drawing of her Cesar Feliciano did a few weeks back. We posted it here in its black and white state and said publisher Ben Dun at Antarctic was going to have it colored. Well here it is and we couldn’t be happier. The colorist was one Nick Webb. It really is stunning work. Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief is having a blast writing this character. Thank you, Lord.

ANOTHER BEN DUNN CONNECTION

Meanwhile, Ben was gracious enough to slap this add in the back of The Crimson Nun # 2 highlighting the team-up story we wrote teaming his Tomorrow Girl with our Mr. Jigsaw. Our Redbud Studio version was published a while back and is available from (www.IndyPlanet.com). Meanwhile Antarctic Press is doing their version (i.e. using our same script but with their art) and as soon as it is published, we’ll let all of you know where to find it.

OUR LOGO FOR SWAG?

Recently one of our creators asked how they could get an Airship 27 sweatshirt like the one I wear at cons and can be seen in the top photo of this Flight Log. After talking with Rob, we decided to make the logo freely available to any of our fans or creators who’d like to do up their own Airship 27 tees, sweatshirt, coffee mugs or whatever. Rob put together a package of logos for swag creation and have placed the link on our website’s opening page. To get there go to airship27hangar.com and in the left column scroll down to the “merchandise” button. Click on that button and a zip file of the logo folder should automatically download. There is NO cost for this.

WOULD YOU BELIEVE POPEYE’S WORLD

Finally our granddaughter Cora, and her husband Calvin, recently took a trip down to Orlando, Florida and visited Universal’s Theme Park. There they discovered the park has a new exhibition totally devoted to the late cartoonist E.C. Segar’s famous sailor, Popeye. Yup, called POPEYE’S WORD, and they spend a few hours exploring and enjoying the site. Knowing that her grandfather has once written Popeye comics, Cora was a dear and snapped the above which we can now happily share with all you Loyal Airmen. Hmm, the Air Chief is thinking, maybe someday, we’ll just have to check this place out.

And that Loyal Airmen is it for this week. Thanks for stopping by and God bless. Ron – Over & Out!