Greetings Loyal Airmen, we trust you had a good week and a nice Valentine's Day.  Seems like we are getting into the holiday season as President's Day is coming up soon as well. Car dealerships across the land will soon be bombarding the airwaves with their “Big Deals” so, as they are fond of pitching, Come On Down!  Ha.

                        
                                   Sketch by Sean Collins
We had a nice surprise waiting for us when we logged on to our e-mail this morning and found a new sketch there of the Air Chief and our beloved Airship 27.  It was rendered by our good friend, and super talented fellow, Mr. Sean Collins.  Sean is also the president of Wild Wolf Entertainment, the publisher who has printed our Mr.Jigsaw collections, volumes one and two with number three soon on the way.  Wild Wolf has also done a version of our graphic novel Daughter of Dracula and will soon be releasing their edition of The Boston Bombers.  These are vital to us because our own titles are self-published and therefore not sold through big outlets such as Amazon, whereas all Wild Wolf books are, thus making our comics available to a much larger audience.  We are very appreciative of this fact and so grateful to Sean for partnering with us at Redbud Studios to make this possible.

                        
                                      Rick Ruby by artist Rob Moran
Recently the Air Chief and his partner at Airship 27 Productions, Rob Moran, have been very busy getting out new Airship 27 pulp titles.  In March we hope to release two more titles, one of them called “The Ruby Files.” This is the start of a new series featuring a private-eye in the 1930s named Rich Ruby and was created for us by writers Bobby Nash and Sean Taylor.  Each has a story in the anthology plus two more by writers Andrew Salmon and William Maynard.  The cover will sport a painting by graphic artist legend Mark Wheatley and the book contains eight amazing interior illustrations (like the one above) by the amazing Rob Moran.  Moran loves the old black and white Warner Brothers crime movies and his noirish art reflects those movies in almost poster like detail.  We were thrilled to recruit him for this book as he was the perfect artist to help Rick Ruby to life.  So count the days and of course we'll let you know as soon as the book is out and available.

Finally, as most Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief writes a blog called Pulp Fiction Reviews.  There is a link to that site above this column.  Since the start of the year we've been reading a great many new books and just finished this new one by our pal, Barry Reese called, “The Adventures of Lazarus Gray” published by our friends at Pro Se Productions.  If you'd like to read our complete review, go on over to the site and check it out.  This is one terrific pulp book.

That's it for this week, Loyal Airmen, again thanks for stopping by.  We always appreciate you doing so.
Ron – Over & Out!