Well another week has rolled around and I thought I’d take a few paragraphs to update you on what’s been keeping me busy. The above cover is for one of a dozen comic book projects I’ve been involved with these past few months. LA FEMME LIBERTE is a 16 pg. title for the Just A Buck series and all the artwork (including this dynamite cover) is by talented newcomer, John Palocek. It’s about a female OSS spy working in Nazis occupied Paris during the early days of WW II. I was so delighted with
John’s work on this effort, I immediately recruited him to draw the first ever BROTHER GRIM comic, now in production. More on that as time goes on. And of course I’ll let you all know when this particular comic will be available.

A work in progress is a new anthology book I’m now putting together to be called RON FORTIER’S LETHAL LADIES. The preliminary cover above is by Dario Carrasco and features the three love ladies in question. In a crouch, is jewel thief, Satin Wei, star of my series. SATIN’S WAYS, co-created with Chilean artist fantastic, Gonzalo Martinez. The big bruiser, is BLACK BETTY, a Los Angeles based private eye,
co-created by the afore-mentioned Mr.Carrasco.
And lastly, the attractive copper is Nora Temple, one half of the crime-busting team of TEMPLE & NASH (..first book still available elsewhere on this site) as created by yours truly and
one Johnny Atomic. The book is a collection of short strips starring each of the deadly damsels. No publisher yet, but once something is locked down, I’ll fill you in.

Finally, I mentioned a few logs back that I had finished a re-write of the classic pulp magazine, CAPTAIN HAZZARD. Well my good friend,
and design genius, Chris Mills, had fun by dressing up the original cover to include my by-line and make the cosmetic changes ala my finished script. The book will be published, with a brand new, original Tom Floyd cover, later this year. It will then be followed by the first ever new Captain Hazzard novel in over sixty years, by yours truly and Martin Powell. The adventure is called CITADEL OF FEAR and Martin and I are well into it, having a blast.
So hang in there, pulp fans. Good stuff is on the way.

A final note, the idiot terrorists who bombed London, England two weeks ago, tried again yesterday, and failed miserably. Personally, I think angels were sent to protect the courageous
Brits and there was divine intervention. When it comes to terrorists, I’ve absolutley no mercy. As is evidence every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are animals willing to kill innocent women and children to achieve their sicko goals. They have perverted a religion of brotherhood and peace into something vile and obscene. I support our President in his stance to wipe them all off the face of the Earth. Should we be the guardians of the peace? Look around, my friends. There isn’t anyone else? Either we battle evil in the world, or just sit back and wait for it to come to us. Personally,
I like option #1.

Over and out for another week, Ron.