Greetings, airmen. My son, Scott, the PC whiz guy, was busy this week setting up our pages for the art gallery. It was something we had planned on doing right from the start, but like everything else in life, it just seemed to always get postponed. The purpose of Airship 27 has always been, aside from yours truly venting his thoughts and opinions on a helpless public (ha), to keep you informed on the various comic and pulp projects I’m currently invovled with. Obviously in that line of work, I collect lots and lots of very cool artowrk. Artwork I wanted very much to share with all of you. So here it is. Hopefully there will be lots more added as the weeks go by.

So let me identify the pieces I’ve put up to kick this off. The first two pieces, going left to right, on the first gallery page are from my
18 pg. story FRANK NG-HIRED GUN. The story is a prequel to the independent horror movie, GOD OF VAMPIRES, written, produced and directed by my good pal, Rob Fitz. The artist on this comic tie-in is Javier Lugo and that’s his work on the first page of the story. Next to that is the full color cover for the project as done by the
amazing Johnny Atomic; my parnter on TEMPLE & NASH. Johnny’s work is just gorgeous as this cover piece testifies.

Up next is some BROTHER GRIM art. The first piece is of course the powerful painting by Tom Floyd that was used for our pulp book, still available for those of you who haven’t yet picked up a copy. (See the Air Fare page.) With the success of the pulp book, co-creator Chris Mills and I decided it was time for a BROTHER GRIM comic book. It is going to be a 48 pg one-shot called BULLETS OF JADE and is being
drawn by the talented John Polacek. He did up
pin-ups of Blackjack Craddock and Det.Rod Riley
for us, both appear in the comic. And lastly, on
the next Gallery page, is John’s take on the
undead avenger. I love it.

Finally, as most of you know, the really big project on my plate these days is my bringing back the classic pulp hero, CAPTAIN HAZZARD. I’m doing both new pulp adventures and a comic book series. When I decided to rewrite the original Hazzard book, PYTHON MEN OF LOST CITY,
Ron Hanna over at Wild Cat Books agreed to publish it once it was ready. So I went to best pulp artist I know, Tom Floyd, and offered him the gig of doing the new cover. Tom jumped at the chance and is now hard at work on that assignement. To get it rolling he turned in three pencil sketches for me to choose from. I won’t tell you which I picked, but one of those pencils is now being painted by Tom. And since I detest wasting great artwork, I also picked another of these roughs and told my comic book
artist, Craig Shepard, to make a comic cover out of it. And while on the subject of that very same book (see the mock-up Chris did over the original pulp cover by the legendary painter Norm Saunders), Brian Meredith has begun serializing PYTHON MEN OF THE LOST CITY over at his (www.ModernPulp.com)site. He is posting a new chapter every Sunday and will do so until all 15 have been done. So if you’d like to read what I did to this 1930s adventure pulp, head on over and give it a go. Note, once the book is completely serialized, it will come off his site and go to the printers. Meaning, it will no longer be available to read for free. You’ve been advised.

Hope you all like the gallery. Scott and I still have more plans for Airship 27. So stay tuned and please, make your visits to the Airship a habit. We always love spending time with our friends. Have a great week, Ron, over and out.