Greetings Loyal Airmen, last week we showed off three new pages from our new western comic, “Hamlet’s End.” Written by yours truly and art by good buddy Zane DeGaine. All of this came about when shortly after settling in Fort Collins, Zane and his wife Olivia, joined the Air Chief and Valerie in going out to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner one night. While awaiting our entrees, we asked Zane what kind of project he’d like to work on. Of course our intent was find out what he had a passion for and then seeing if it was something we might be able to offer him. “Westerns,” was his immediate reply.

It took a few years, but eventually the Air Chief came up with an solid idea for a western and that was “Hamlet’s End.” Zane read the script last year, loved it, and signed on. He even went as far as to do a short ash-can issue featuring the first 9 pages (above left) and sold them at a local con. Now he’s hard at work on completing the entire 22 pg first issue. Here’s pg # 13 (above right). His hope is to have it done within the next couple of weekss, and then he’s going to start a Kickstarter Campaign for it. Trust us, Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief is totally wound for sound about “Hamlet’s End.” Zane’s work on this comics is stunning and we can’t wait until the day you get to read it. We’ll keep youposted.

THE CRIMSON NUN

At the same time artist Jesse Thomas is back hard at work on the pencils for The Crimson Nun # 2. See those gorgeous pages above and that one sketch of our hero, Gabrielle Joan Cauxvette. You’ll allow the Air Chief grace for naming her after our mother, Gabrielle. And as far as we know, Antarctic Press is still set on releasing issue # 1 next month, Oct. Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen.

BROTHER BONES THE UNDEAD AVENGER

The Brother Bones graphic novel, now coming to life thanks to artist Joe Arnold, is also gaining steam  indicative of the pencil roughs above. Joe says he’s having a ball drawing this origin tale of our Undead Avenger and we can tell from the enthusiasm he’s exhibiting in his art.

Joe’s been using pages from a 1930s Sears & Roebucks catalog to research dresses for our female characters. His hope is to have 50 pgs completed before we start assembling the Kickstarter campaign. Dang, but we do have lots of fun stuff on the way, Loyal Airmen. Start saving up your pennies.

SPECIAL HARDBACK EDITION OUT!

As you’ll recall only two weeks ago we released our Super Special Edition of Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective Vol 20. We made a big deal out of this because Art Director did the issue up to look like a copy of the actual Strand Magazine where most of the original Sherlock Holmes tales had first appeared in print. About the same time we’d also released the hardback edition of “Metropolis – Resurrection,” the sci-fi prequel novel. So…a few smart Loyal Airmen went to Rob and asked why not a hardback edition of the special Consulting Detective. Ever one to satisfy our readers, Rob got on it immediately and now if you head on over to Amazon, you can pick this volume in four editions. First on Kindle, then our regular paperback size, then our bigger magazine size…and now that larger size in hard back. Hopefully that pleases all you terrific Holmes & Watson fans out there.

NEW PROSE FICTION STORY

Back at this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper con, we talked with writer Bob Mendenhall about possibly writing a story for his terrific Codename – Intrepid action series featuring a super-secret military team. Bob graciously gave us the green light and we recently wrapped up a story featuring Master Sergeant “Hammer” Downe (above right) called “The Lost Jungle.” Thanks to pal Lee Houston Jr. who helped with formatting. That’s a terrific sketch of Hammer by artist Ron Randall and the link below is to Bob’s site. Check it out, Loyal Airmen. This is the good stuff.

(https://robertjmendenhall.com/code-name-intrepid/)

ANOTHER AUDIO BOOK ADDED

A little while back Art Director Rob Davis decided to try posting one of our novels to Audible via its Amazon listing. I.e. Amazon makes this arrangement and Audible uses AI voices to do the narration. His first attempt was with one of Nancy Hansen’s Jezebel Johnston pirate books and everyone thought it worked better than expected. With that positive result, he’s now put up one of our Sherlock Holmes Consulting Anthologies, Vol 17 to be specific (see cover above) which features stories by I.A. Watson, R.A. Jones, George Tackes and Jonathan Casey. It’s now up at the Amazon page. If you enjoy audio book downloads, go on and give it a try. You may be pleasantly surprised.

BEYOND THE STARS # 4

And finally the biggest news of this week. Artist Andrea Bormida has finished work on our sci-fi series, “Beyond the Stars” # 4. The pages are now in letterer Mike Belcher’s talented hands and as soon as he wraps it up, the book will be delivered to Silverline Comics. As this is a six part mini-series, we are left with only to chapters left. Thanks again for all your Loyal Airmen who have helped by supporting the funding campaigns for the first three issues. We’ll let you know when this one is up.

And phew, Loyal Airmen, that’s plenty for one week. Ha. As Ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday morning.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we hope you all had a great holiday weekend. The Air Chief is still ecstatic about the return of our video podcast to You Tube. Remember you can find The Airship 27 Podcast # 95 there right now. And by now possibly # 96, as yours truly and Chief Engineer Rob Davis recorded them back to back. Please, should you watch either, do leave comments and let us know what you think, both good and bad.

HARDBACK BOOKS

Last year Amazon made it known that they could do hardback editions of our titles. So we did one collecting many of my Brother Bones stories. We liked the results and then put all that on the back burner. Our thoughts were to save doing hardbacks for when we had what we considered an exceptional offering. Well, that happened with the prequel novel, “Metropolis – Resurrection” by Charles Santino and Michael Panush, with art by James Lyle. Both the Air Chief and Rob thought this truly great book merited an extra something special; and that was a hardback edition. Ours arrived in the mail the other day (see above) and we are more than happy with result. This is a marvelous title and truly deserving of this beautiful edition. Again, as ever, available from Amazon.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2 – Issue # 3

Meanwhile, Rob Davis continues to draw “The Boston Bombers Vol 2.” Above is a page from Issue # 3. Yes, yes, Loyal Airmen, we are well aware we haven’t released Issue # 2 as yet. But that’s only because the good folks at (www.IndyPlanet.com) are taking a long-long time in getting it posted there. As soon that earth-shattering event happens, we’ll be sure to let you know. Sigh.

HAMLET’S END

Perhaps the most exciting item on this week’s entry is artist Zane DeGaine’s amazing new work on our western comic, “Hamlet’s End.” Above are his early roughs for pages 10, 11 & 12. Honestly, they once again remind us of why we love comics so much. When the Air Chief wrote these scenes in the script, the images in our mind’s eye was okay. But it was never as powerful and dramatic as what Zane has done here. We are so excited about this project and with luck could have this issue # 1 out before the end of the year. Wahooooo!

PODCAST # 96 IS LIVE!

And so as we wrapped up this week’s Flight Log, we are happy to announced that the Airship 27 Podcast Episode # 96 is now up at You Tube. In it, the Air Chief and Chief Engineer Rob Davis discuss the second 9 of the 18 titles we’d released since the start of the year. Then to add frosting to that cake, look what showed up in the Air Chief’s mail today!!  The deluxe, Special Edition Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective Vol 20.  It is beautiful and very much the collector’s item we predicted. Again, available at Amazon, Loyal Airmen.

And there you have, a fast and exciting week. As ever, thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen. Well, after a decade of publishing some of the finest Sherlock Holmes mysteries via our best selling series, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, we’ve reached volume 20. And to celebrate that achievement, we decided to make it super special.

Included in this special volume is writer I.A. Watson’s novella, “The Strand Magazine Murders,” wherein Holmes, Dr. Watson solved a murder at the various publishing house that chronicled their adventures. To add this theme, Art Director Rob Davis designed the book to look like a copy of that famous magazine and so we are offering it in three different formats. First there is our usual Kindle version, then our regular 6 X 9 paperback version, and then the larger square format to resemble the original Strand. Also withing these pages you’ll find stories by Teel James Glenn, Ray Lovato and Michael BLack. Loyal Airmen, we are serious when we say this book will soon be come a collector’s item. All three versions are now available at Amazon. As always, thanks so much for your continued support.

BASS REEVES PAINTING

Another of Airship 27’s popular pulp series is our “BASS REEVES – Frontier Marshal,” based on the exploits of that real life U.S. Deputy Marshal who rode the badlands of Oklahoma (before it became a state) and surrounding territories. That’s a picture of him above left. Also there was an 8 part mini-series on television recently. The other day, fellow new publisher, Milton Davis, let it be known there is going to be a panel at this week-end’s Dragon Con in Atlanta devoted to the life and legend of this lawman. In doing so Davis printed a new painting done by artist James Loveless (above right) which the Air Chief just had to share with all you Loyal Airmen. Here’s hoping that panel is a huge success.

GARY’S KING ARTHUR COMIC

A couple of weeks back we mentioned that our pal Gary Kato’s black and white “The Eternal Sword” graphic novel had just been published at Amazon. Well our copy arrived in the mail today, a little beat up but still okay to read and enjoy and have for our own library. Gary tells an adult tale of the famous King Arthur legend and though we do highly recommend to you pick up a copy, please aware it is not intended for children. That said, it is an incredible achievement with gorgeous artwork throughout.

NEW PROMO BEYOND THE STARS

As we awaiting the final touches on “Beyond the Stars” # 4, artist Andrea Bormida was generous enough to provide us with this new pin-up of two of our heroes. Thanks, pal. We love it.

THE AIRSHIP 27 PODCAST RETURNS!

After months of being unable to record a new episode, the Air Chief is happy to report the Airship 27 podcast is back!!  Over a week ago, we dumped our Comcast account and signed on to a new internet service which has proven to be efficient and rewarding. And so the Air Chief, and Hangar 27’s Chief Engineer, Rob Davis, got together via Skype and recording Episode # 95. As we write this, that episode should now be available for you to view on You Tube. Again, simply write in the search box – Airship 27 Podcast # 95 and you should be able to find it. We hope you are as excited about this as we are. Note we’ve also got our Bad Jokes segment that you won’t want to miss. As always Loyal Airmen, do leave us notes or comments and let us know your own thoughts. Thanks ever.

And that’s it for this week. Take care and we hope to see you back here next Friday morning.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, well summer for most students across the country is now finished and they are back in school. When young, we thought summers lasted forever. On becoming an adult the reality was something else. They all too short. Okay, so soon Fall will be upon us and meanwhile the Air Chief is pounding away at his newest writing gig.

CODE NAME INTREPID – CLASSIFIED

Few years ago, writer Robert J. Mendenhall came to Airship 27 with an idea about a super military team that operated in the time between World War I and II, taking on only the most crucial, special assignments that often dealt with the supernatural. He titles his collection of stories “Codename – Intrepid” and we were only too happy to publish it. (Above left.) Later, having gotten the New Pulp in a big way, Robert made the decision to create his own publishing imprint from which to continue the team’s adventures. (Note..all of them are available on Amazon – check them out.) Then last year he had the idea of inviting other writers to do stories with these characters and launched a series he called “CNI-Classified.” (Above right.) A really awesome idea. When we hooked up with Robert earlier in the year at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con, we congratulated him on the series’ success and suggested we might be interested in writing one of those tales. Happily Robert loved the idea and so we committed to having a story to him by the end of this year. After a few months of dealing with tons of other comic book projects plus all our new Airship 27 titles, we managed to come up with a plot and this past week have been hammering away at the keys. The story is coming along. Wahoo. We’ll keep you posted.

JEFF’S HORNET FUN

The first time we met artist Jeff Butler, at a San Diego Comic ages ago, he showed us a portfolio of his work and there was this pin-up sketch of the Green Hornette. (above left) We loved it and within months of that meeting, we recruited to Jeff to be our partner in producing the Green Hornet comic book for the now defunct Now Comics out of Chicago. Recently, on Facebook, fan Scott Garrison, has been talking about how he’s been collecting, through various sources on line ala E-bay etc, the entire run of that series. That’s quite an achievement in itself. Well eventually we saw that post and added a few comments of applause for his efforts. Then Jeff saw and the other day added as yet another Hornette (above right) this being our lovely Mishi Kato. So here they are side by side. We thought all you Loyal Airmen would get a kick out of seeing them. Enjoy…and thanks Jeff.

CAPTAIN JAIN’S OWN COMIC!

As many of you Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief has been writing the comic strip adventures of Captain Jain Marlee Space-Smuggler for a long-long time now. If memory serves us correctly, we’ve written at least six of these short tales. In fact the last, an 11 pager called “Ghost World” has yet to see print.

Very recently a fellow writer approached us with an intriguing proposition regarding our lovely space rebel. Enough so that it got us thinking maybe it was time we collected all those stories into one comic book. And that is indeed what we are setting out to do. Most likely through pal Rob’s Redbud Studio. As it comes together, we’ll keep you Loyal Airmen updated. As to what that idea presented to us entailed, well we’re going to keep that under wraps for a little while longer. Keep you guessing a bit. Till then, look forward to this one shot comic project.

And that’s a wrap for this installment, Loyal Airmen. As ever, thanks so much for stopping by we hope to see you back here next Friday. Till then stay well and God bless.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, the past week and weekend have been wicked busy at Hangar 27 so lets get cracking.

METROPOLIS RESURRECTION

After week’s of promotion, we are thrilled to announce the release of our newest Airship 27 title, “Metropolis – Resurrection” by Charles Santino & Michael Panush. This is a brilliant prequel novel to the classic silent sci-fi film, “Metropolis” produced by Fritz Lang. The book is so amazing, with all the art, both interior illustrations and cover, were done by James Lyle. So special is this title, that it is now available from Amazon in three formats; paperback, on Kindle and hardback. Trust us, Loyal Airmen, if you are a fan of the classic film, you’ll want to read this novel. As ever, thanks for your continued support.

AIRSHIP 27 RETURNS TO AUDIBLE

After a few years of focusing solely on print formats, Airship 27 has returned to the audio media. Audible is currently producing their titles via virtual voice. It was something both Rod and the Air Chief had been intrigued by. Finally Rob took the plunge and from what we’ve heard via their three minute sample, the quality is very good. Chosen as the first to be recorded in this manner was Nancy Hansen’s latest volume in her pirate queen saga, Jezebel Johnston – Captain Johnston. It can be found by simply going to Audible and putting that title in their search engine. Note, it is a female voice that narrates the adventure.

BROTHER BONES – GRAPHIC NOVEL

After almost a year, artist Joe Arnold has once again returned to working our Brother Bones graphic novel. This is the complete origin story of our Undead Avenger told for the first time in comic form.

Above are first-drafts only of some of the early pages and character sketches. If you are familiar with the book series, you’ll easily recognize what’s happening and who these characters are. To say the Air Chief is excited is an understatement. We’ll continue to keep you posted, Loyal Airmen.

WARRIOR OF RIGEL

And finally, we end this week’s Flight Log with out second Airship 27 title release in one week. “Warrior of Rigel” is a sword and planet fantasy adventure by writer Gary Lovisi, with all art, both interior illustrations and that cover above by artist Ron Hill. If you’re a fan of the old Edgar Rice Burroughs off world adventure, this book is for you Loyal Airmen. As always, available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle. Thanks always for your support.

And that’s a wrap. But we’re not slowing down one bit. See you back here next Friday morning.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as of 1st of Sept, we will only be using our new e-mail address. (ronfortier104@gmail.com) Please, drop us a quick one line letter telling us you received this information and have logged this into your own files.  When you do that, we can add you to our new address file as well. Thanks.  Now on to this week’s Flight Log.

BEYOND THE STARS # 4

So here’s page # 21 of BEYOND THE STARS # 4.  Meaning artist Andrea Bormida has only one more page to draw and he wraps up this issue.  Will be nice to see this one out. Leaving us only two more issues to finish the series.

GEEZERS 2

Am thrilled to announced the release of our Airship 27 title, GEEZERS 2 by writer Darryle Purcell. This continues the adventures of the likeable group of Vietnam veterans living in a California senior facility. And adventures they do have, show patriotism never grows old. Purcell himself is a vet and with writing the novel, also drew all the black and interior illustrations. While that stunning cover above was created by the amazing Adam Shaw. As ever now available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle. We thank you for your support, Loyal Airmen.

Happily we here in Colorado have finally starting getting rain, which has been a blessing in helping firefighters combat and end the many forest fires that have been plaguing us these past few weeks thanks to the hot temps. With them quench by the remains, hopefully we’ve seen the last of the scorching weather and can start looking forward to more moderate Fall weather.

And that’s a wrap for this week, Loyal Airmen, as ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, here we are in August and once again summer is disappearing on us faster than we’d like. Such is life. But here at Hangar 27 we continue to work on our pulp and comic projects. So let’s get started.

JIN & TONIK

Last we we showed you the black and white version of this beautiful drawing by artist Cesar Feliciano. For those of you who were unable to support our funding campaign and thus weren’t able to obtain a copy of JIN & TONIK, don’t despair. There are some talks in progress with a major independent comic company that might all of you smile. More as things develop.

CHIVALRY INC.

Work continues on CHIVALRY, INC. #1 with pencils by Javier Lugo and really nice inks by Jesse Hansen. Above the latest completed page. The book will be colored and when completed coming to you from Florida’s own Silverline Comics.

BEYOND THE STARS # 4

Artist Andrea Bormida is whipping through the last few pages of “Beyond the Stars” # 4. Above are his pencils for pages #19 and # 20. That leaves him only two pages left to complete the issue. Next up Angelo Vecciarelli adds his colors. When all 22 pgs are drawn, Mike Belcher letters them and then they are off to Silverline Comics. Keep in mind, this is a six issue series, ergo the publishing of #4 leaves us two left to wrap it all up.

A SWIPING COINCEDENCE

Norman Saunders was one of the finest pulp cover artist of his time. One of the many covers he painted was for the one and only issue of Captain Hazzard – Champion of Justice; Python Men of the Lost City. The first time we saw this image, it was in black and white on a small facsimile edition published by the late Bob Weinberg. Which is why we didn’t make the connection when many years later we saw Jim Steranko’s cover for the first issue of our Green Hornet comic series from Now Comics. Then again, another few decades elapsed, and we found ourselves writing brand new Captain Hazzard novels. And lo and behold, putting these two images side by side, realized Steranko had actually swiped Saunders. Not that swiping is anything new, it’s a standard practice among professional illustrators. What was unique was the fact that the Air Chief would be so intimately involved with both these two fictional heroes. Now that’s a coincidence.

And that wraps up this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. As always, thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you back here next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we thought today we’d discuss a few new Airship 27 titles that are now in production and coming your way.

METROPOLIS PREQUELS

The late movie genius, Fritz Lang’s greatest cinema marvel was his 1927 silent sci-fi classic, “Metropolis.” Having read about most of our youth, we finally saw a screening one night at the World Science Fiction Con in Boston many years ago. It mesmerized us. To think such a great movie could have been made in those days, with spectacular special effects. Wow. Jump ahead to our starting Airship 27 Production with Rob Davis and the idea of doing prequel Metropolis anthologies. Lo and behold, the wonderful Mike Kaluta, upon hearing of our plans, offered up the cover, a left over from his own amazing illustrated edition of the novel by Lang’s wife, Thea van Habou. (Above center) Then earlier this year, we finally were able to deliver as yet a second volume of “Towers of Metropolis” and this time artist James Lyle came aboard with his dazzling cover and breathtaking interior illustrations. (Above right) But we aren’t finished yet, in just a few short weeks, Airship 27 will be releasing a prequel novel, “Metropolis -Resurrection” written by Michael Panush and Charles Santino. It is one of the most brilliant prequels the Air Chief has ever read and much to our delight, James is back on board, delivering all the artwork. Oh, and without revealing all our secrets, we’ve a special edition for this title in the works. You Metropolis fans are not going to want to miss this one.

SHERLOCK HOLMES – CONSULTING DETECTIVE

Of course the best selling series from Airship 27 has since day one been our Sherlock Holmes anthology series, Consulting Detective. From the first volume, launched a decade ago, with Mark Maddox’ gorgeous covers to the next eighteen volumes, these collections have brought Holmes & Watson fans the most exciting, captivating, and thrilling stories ever envisioned by today’s top pulp scribes. At present Rob is busy at work on Volume Twenty, which will be something truly special. Not only will it be a bigger book with more stories than we normally release, but Rob is designing to look like an actual issue of the classic Strand magazine, the London periodical that first introduced the world to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s amazing detective. We’ve seen the first chapter, from a brand new I.A. Watson mystery and we’re excited. Really excited. If you Loyal Airmen have enjoyed this series from the start, you can consider this extra big volume our humble thanks for your continued support.

THE ETERNAL SWORD

The Air Chief, along with Rob Davis, publisher of Redbud Studio, are proud and excited to announce the release of writer/artist Gary Kato’s new graphic novel, “The Eternal Sword.” It is a fantastic 48 pg dramatic retelling of the King Arthur legend. Done in black and white and suggested for mature audiences, it is now available at Amazon. Trust me, Loyal Airmen, this is a great and beautiful read.

JIN & TONIK

Never one to let dust gather under his feet, artist Cesar Feliciano, over the the week-end whipped up these new JIN & TONIK pin-ups for a very special occasion. The Air Chief isn’t at liberty to say more right now, but when Cesar gives us the all-clear, you Loyal Airmen will be the first to know.

THE WOODEN BLADE # 3

The adventures of our magic sword wielding ram, Raizee continue in this third issue wonderfully illustrated by Olivia DeGaine. The book is in its final stages of production and we hope to have it available to all our fans at this year’s Rocky Mountain Con in Nov in Denver. Stay tuned.

BEYOND THE STARS # 4

And of course artist Andrea Bormida and his colorist Angelo Vecciarelli continue to finish the remaining few pages of BEYOND THE STARS # 4 as seen above.

And that, Loyal Airmen, is it for this week’s rambling. As ever thanks for stopping by and try to stay cool out there.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as the summer presses on with scorching heat waves, we at Airship 27 continue to assemble and get lots of new titles out. Recently, we’ve begun to put out books in the classic Sword and Sorcery genre made so popular by writers like Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs. When the air chief was growing up, he bought lots of Ace paperbacks of these two writers and was taken by their exciting, colorful covers.

One of the most popular cover artist of these titles was the late Roy G. Krenkel (July 11-1918, Feb 24-1983). Above are three of his amazing works. This year we at Airship 27 we’re lucky to recruit an extremely talented artist whose work reminds me of Krenkel in so many ways. His name is Ron Hill and we recently assigned two S & S titles by writer Gary Lovisi; “I, BARBARIAN” which we published a few months ago and the soon to be released “WARRIOR OF RIGEL.”

Above left and center are two of the published illustrations from “I, BARBARIAN,” while at left his Ron’s preliminary roughs for what will be his wrap-around covers to “WARRIOR OF RIGEL.” Stay tuned for more about this terrific fantasy artist.

THE BLOOD RUNS DEEP

A few weeks ago we told you about our latest short story having just been printed in a new anthology from Valhalla Press and our pal Adam Messer. Well the book is up at Amazon and yesterday the Air Chief got his copies. The printing is great, and Valerie loves the white pages.  They’re easy on the eyes. We hope you Loyal Airmen will check it out.

THE CRIMSON NUN # 1

Finally we’ll end on a little teaser. Earlier in the week we were contacted Antarctic Press publisher Ben Dunn asking if we’d write an introduction to issue number of the new series, “THE CRIMSON NUN,” as the book is about to go to the printers. Ben wanted us, in the intro to explain a bit about the series but without giving away the entire plot. Hmmm, a challenge indeed. We managed to get it done and off to him. In it we alluded to a few things that readers should take note of in the story. One, it is connected with Saint Joan of Arc, the patron saint of France who led their army against British invaders. Two, set against an historical background of the 1930s, the tale will also feature Pope Pius XI seen above. We writers love to research history when we can. The goal being to inform well entertaining. And there you have it. Hope the next time we mention this comic it will be to announce its arrival. Till then, Loyal Airmen….we’re signing off.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, the summer continues to be one super busy one for the Air Chief. So many projects coming to fruition and we are so eager to share all of them with you. But first….

GO JARRETT MAZZA!

Rob Davis and yours truly have never claimed our little publishing venture is anywhere near the big boy outfits out there. We see ourselves as a possible stepping stone to those writers and artists looking to advance their skills and careers. Jarrett Mazza is an up and coming new pulp writer who has worked for several publishers including our own Airship 27 Production. He recently sold a new action series to Rough Edges Press and book number is out. Brazo, Jarrett.  You can find “Dawn of the Trade” at Amazon. From this point on for Jarrett, the sky’s the limit.

THE CRIMSON NUN # 2

With the recent success of our Kickstarter Campaign for issue #1, now at the printers, artist Jesse Thomas isn’t wasting any time all get issue # 2 rolling along. Above are the pencils and inks for the first three pages of issue # 2.  Alright, Jesse.

THE WOODEN BLADE # 3

On to our series with artist Olivia DeGaine, here’s her first stab at the cover to # 3. This is a work in progresses and Olivia hopes to embellish much more before it is finished.

CHIVALRY INC.

After a brief hiatus, production on CHIVALRY INC. # 1 has started up again with inker Jesse Hassen once more hard at work inking Javier Lugo’s beautiful pages. A reminder, this will be a three issue full color mini-series coming from Silverline Comics, my publishers on BEYOND THE STARS. We’ll keep you posted as ever.

And that’s it for this quick Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. What with record heat being felt across the country, we urge all of you to be smart. Stay cool and hydrated if you have to be out in this stuff and protect your skin with the proper lotions. Skin cancer is no fun.

Ron – Over & Out!