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.

WESTERN COMING SOON

24 Jan | '2025

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we certainly hope all of you are keeping warm in these cold, bitter sub freezing temperatures blanketing the country. Hopefully this gorgeous artwork by artist Zane DeGaine will warm you up a bit. We are almost ready to launch the Kickstarter Campaign for our western series, “Hamlet’s End” and the Air Chief thought we’d start this Flight Log with showing you the two main promo pieces Zane did up. The one above right was his first take on our character Dallas Maddox, both as the little girl at the start of the series and one of her as the young woman turned bounty hunter. Then Zane worked these images to creating a stunning poster (center) that is now our primary cover to issue # 1. Note there will be an alternate revealed with the campaign begins. Meanwhile Zane has made up posters without logo etc. and is selling them. Any Loyal Airmen interested in picking one up, contact either the Air Chief or Zane directly via Facebook. Stay tuned.

BEYOND THE STARS # 5

Next up, our Italian pal, Andrea Bormida is back to work on his pencils for issue # 5 of “Beyond the Stars” after our successful funding campaign for Issue # 4. Am wicked excited to see this issue come together. Once it is finished, we’ll have one left to go in the series.

THE CRIMSON NUN # 2

REST IN PEACE STEVE

Losing good friends always hurts like hell. This week we learned that Ohio native, Steve Bennett passed away over the holidays of cardiac arrest. He wrote the comic series, The Rovers for Malibu Comics. The Air Chief and Steve became pals way back in the 80s when they both broke into the comics game. He was a great human being and we are going to miss him so much. Rest in peace, my friend. (https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58672/r-i-p-steve-bennett)

And that’s it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by. Take care and stay warm out there. Ron – Over & Out!