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.

BEYOND THE STARS # 5

3 Jul | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as is the routine, we creators get our copies of our comics long after all our supporters have gotten theirs. Which is only right, as without them, we simply couldn’t publish these titles. So as happy as the Air Chief is here, deliriously so in fact, we are extremely grateful to each and everyone one of you purchased a copy and help make our funding campaign a success. Alright, so now stay tuned as the final chapter of this sage, issue # 6 is almost finished according to artist Andrea Bormida and believe me, it will blow your socks off. It’s the big battle climax the entire tale has been building up to. Trust me, Loyal Airmen, you won’t want to miss it.

AIRSHIP 27 TEST FLIGHTS LAUNCHES

Some big news here, Loyal Airmen. At the end of our last Airship 27 Podcast, Chief Engineer Rob suggested the possibility of our producing short, dedicated podcast wherein one of our many talented Airship 27 writers would read from their published works. After the show, Rob and the Air Chief continued the discussion until we volunteered to be the first reader. We chose to read the first chapter from our first ever Brother Bones story, “The Bone Brothers” which kicked off the very first book, “Brother Bones – The Undead Avenger.” The reading took 12 minutes and after that file was set, Rob then proceeded to dress it up with lots and lots of illustrations from our Brother Bones files to enhance the reading with visuals. It is now completed and can be found at you tube here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fViMwXS-x_w) Naturally we hope you’ll check it out whereby will gauge your reactions and then decide which writer will tag to do the next one. Wish us luck, Loyal Airmen. These are fun.

THE CRIMSON NUN # 3

Was looking through our Crimson Nun files for issue # 3 now in production and the more we studied Jesse Thomas’ pencils, the more we appreciated his amazing storytelling talent. We know we’ve posted the above page before Loyal Airmen, both inked and colored. But we really just wanted to give you some honest to goodness eye-candy with the dynamics of Jesse’s gorgeous pencils. Enjoy.

HIGH PLAINS MINI-CON

Finally, here’s a quick ad for my forthcoming appearance at the one-day comic con in Minatare, Nebraska, put on by our pal Matthew Rhys. As most of you Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief stop doing big scale shows long ago. They were too crowded, devoted to movie and TV personalities rather than comics and really became no fun at all. In the past few years we were left the Wicked West Con held in the Spring. The Free Comic Book Day at the local comic shop and the Rocky Mountain Con in Nov. Well there was no Wicked West this year. Free Comic Book Day was its usual blast, but as of today, there has been absolutely no word on whether Rocky Mountain will happen this year or not. As you can see our public appearances have begun to shrink. Never mind we didn’t do the Windy City Pulp this year due conflicting schedules for partner Rob. Thus when Matthew hit us up early about his little one day show, we signed on immediately. And we won’t be attending alone, as one of the other guests is our Fort Collins creator neighbor artist Zane DeGaine. We’ll be riding up with him. He’s got a whopping big old truck that can easily haul both our comic boxes and banners etc. So there you have it, Loyal Airmen, if any of you are anywhere near Minatare, Ne. on the 18th of July, why not come on over and say hi. We’d love to meet you for sure.

HAPPY 4th OF JULY

Finally, Saturday is our country’s 250th birthday. Happy Birthday USA, land of the free because of the brave. May God continue to bless you. Amen. Ron – Over and Out!