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.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2 # 3

30 Jan | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we are really thrilled to being showing the last page of THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2 Issue # 3 as delivered by the amazing Rob Davis. It is 28 pgs long and some of his best graphic story telling ever. At present he’s finishing the cover and getting ready to send it off to Ka-Blam, the printer. The second the issue is available at their retail on-line store (www.IndyPlanet.com) we will certainly let you all know and post the link so you can pick up a copy. The Air Chief finished writing issue # 4 months ago and will be excited to hear Rob’s reaction upon reading. Meanwhile start giving serious thought to starting issue # 5. This has been a wild ride so far. We hope you Loyal Airmen enjoy it.

BEYOND THE STARS # 6

Meanwhile over in Italy, artist supreme, Andrea Bormida continues to bring to life the final pages of issue six BEYOND THE STARS, the big finale. We are so loving this pages. Remember, Loyal Airmen, come the first of February, Silverline will launch the Funding Campaign for the completed issue # 5. It’s a fantastic, beautiful issues you won’t want to miss.

R.I.P. SAL BUSCEMA

Sadly the comic book world lost another great veteran artist this past week in Sal Busema. He was one of the legendary artist who helped being about the Silver Age with his many title assignments at Marvel Comics. He was only a few days shy of his 90th birthday. Rest in peace, Sal, and thanks so much for those great comic stories.

SURPRISE CRIMSON NUN SKETCH

At the end of last week, our artist partner on the series, JIN & TONIK, Cesare Feliciano messaged on Facebook asking if we might be able to send them art references for the Crimson Nun, the star of the series we are writing for Antarctic Press. Artist Jesse Thomas had just finished the art on the second issue of that one and of course we’d had this wonderfully successful Kickstarter Campaign. All of this was plastered all over social media and thus Cesar took note. Of course reflecting on his request, all we naturally assumed he’d gotten the bug to draw this character. We wasted no time sending him a half a dozen reference piece by various artists, including Jesse’s early preliminary sketches. We also gave Cesar a short biography on the character and the era in which she operates. Then we sat back and waiting. Three days later Cesar sent along the above illustration sketch and the Air Chief felt like Christmas had come around a second time. Really, it is always so much fun to see one artist draw another artist’s character as they all have their own unique styles and approach. In this case we couldn’t have been happier. Cesar did a fantastic job of drawing our Gabrielle Joan Cauxvette (Crimson Nun) along with her boss. His Holiness Pope Pius XI figures a great deal in the origin story. So thrilled were we that we sent it off to Ben Dunn over at Antarctic Press. Keep in mind, it was Ben who created the concept of the Crimson Nun way back in the 1980s. As expected Ben loved Cesar’s piece and is even now, as we write this, having it colored up so we call all plaster it all over the internet. You have my word, Loyal Airmen, as soon as the colored version arrives, the Air Chief will share it right here, and hundreds of other places.

And that’s it for this week, Loyal Airmen. Jan 2026 slips away and here comes February. Please, stay warm out there and let’s all pray for an early Spring. Ron – Over & Out!