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.

MORE JIN & TONIK!

28 Aug | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, here we go free-falling into another week’s Flight Log. And what better to start then a brand new finished drawn and colored page from JIN & TONIK # 2 as penciled and inked by Cesar Feliciano and wondrously colored by Matt Webb. Every time we see a new page come in, we get wicked excited, Loyal Airmen. We know this book is going to blow your socks off. Oh, yeah.

Meanwhile, Cesar is busy at work drawing out the cover for issue # 2. Above is the what it will look like before being inked and colored. In that, Cesar has recruited Jay Leisten to ink the piece. He is a 20 yr veteran inker having worked for both DC and Marvel.

INDIES TAKE TIME

All too often, we get inquiries from fans asking where certain books are in development. It is one of the sad realities of independent publishing that all too often they take time. Lots of time. Example, thus far it’s taken us a year to do an issue of The Crimson Nun, likewise Jin & Tonik. So the latest to fall behind has been or western, “Hamlet’s End.” Kickstarter a long…long time ago, the actual making of issue number one has seen artist Zane DeGain beset by one problem after another. Initially he suffered serious back issues which almost crippled him for nearly half a year. Now that he’s up and drawing again, there are other personal, normal obligations he has that demand his time. i.e. working, earning a living etc. etc. Still he managed to eke out a few hours to wrap up the inks on this book and now has someone doing flats for the colors. We truly admire Zane’s persistence and dedication and assure all you Loyal Airmen, hang in there. “Hamlet’s End” is coming and we hope you’ll agree, when done, it was well worth the wait.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEATHER!

Over the years many of you Loyal Airmen have asked how we named our pulp publishing company, Airship 27 Production. Specifically why the number 27? And the answer is simple enough, my beautiful daughter Heather was born on Aug 27 (yesterday to all you reading this today). Obviously a super lucky number for ye old Air Chief. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEATHER!!!

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever, thanks for stopping by. We appreciated you all. Ron – Over & Out!