Greetings Loyal Airmen, whereas this past Tues. we began our post-mastectomy radiation treatments, the Air Chief just couldn’t resist falling back into his comic-book way of thinking. I.e. though we may not turn green ala Marvel’s the Hulk, or glow gold like Captain Atom, perhaps our alter ego will be “The Radiated Man.” Now to come up with some cool super-hero name. Any suggestions?
THE CRIMSON NUN # 2
Speaking of comics, we are happy to say several of our upcoming issues are nearing completion and will soon be published. The first of these, i.e. closest to announcing should be “The Crimson Nun # 2” as Jesse Thomas has finished inking all 23 pages and is almost a third of the way coloring the issue. Once done it is off to letterer Mike Belcher. Then we deliver to Ben Dunn and his Antarctic Press. Above is pg # 18.
BEYOND THE STARS # 5 FINISHED!
And now for the most exciting news of this week. Issue # 5 of our six issue mini-series BEYOND THE STARS is 99% finished. Artist Andrea Bormida has finished the art on all 22 pages and they were just colored by his artist friend Angelo. Now, while Andrea works on the cover, the pages go to Mike Blecher for lettering. Then its off to Silverline Comics and funding. Stay tuned Loyal Airmen, we’ll keep you all posted. Again, wicked excited. Only one more issue to go!
BLACK TERROR 2.0
We are also very, very happy to give all you Loyal Airmen our very first peek at our new Black Terror comic book series which we are doing for Ben Dunn’s Antarctic Press. Above is a page from issue # 1 by the amazing Dell Barras. The Air Chief is dang thrilled to be working with Dell, one of the finest and most talented professionals in the world of comics. Next up, David Rios will color and Dami Akinayo will letter. Once those elements are added to this Pg 7, we’ll let you see it again. Promise.
HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY ZANE
And finally, yesterday was July 10th, a special day for our good pal, artist Zane DeGaine. He turned 40 yrs old!!! That’s Zane and the Air Chief early on when we first started work on our western comic, “Hamlet’s End.” For the record, Zane is the last stages of inking and lettering issue # 1. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZANE, wishing you all the happiness in the world.
And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever, lots of things keep the Air Chief busy. And don’t worry, should we start to glow a bright green, we’ll take lots of pictures. Till then, God bless. Ron – Over and Out!
Greetings Loyal Airmen, this week we begin with somber news. We were saddened to learn that Jim Shooter had passed away this past Monday, June 29th of cancer. Beginning at the age of 13, when he sold his first story to DC Comics, he was a force to be reckoned with. From that auspicious start, he would go on to become one of the most influential editors and publishers this community has ever had. We met him a few years ago at a small con in Pikesville, Ky and he as a genuinely nice man, fun to talk to and was intrigued by Airship 27 and New Pulp in general. Rest in peace, good sir. He was 73 years young. May the almighty welcome you to eternity. Amen.
MORE JIN & TONIK # 2
Was thrilled to find this in my in-box, another great page from JIN & TONIK #2 by artist Cesar Feliciano as beautifully colored by the amazing Matt Webb. Ironically, it’s a cemetery scene. This issue is moving along nicely. Whereas this past week also revealed another side of our artist amigo; Cesar the author.
RENAISSANCE MAN INDEED
Not only is Cesar content to be a talented visual storyteller, as is evidenced by his past graphic work, but he recently decided to jump into the literary pool and try a hand at novel writing. End result, “Border Run,” which just this past week became available on Amazon. It’s a gritty yarn as described on the page. Here described : “Frankie was born with a Bronx soul and a battlefield heart, Frankie is ripped from the world he knows and thrown into the clutches of the Cuervos cartel—an empire built on blood, shadows, and silence. Tortured, sedated, and reshaped into something unrecognizable, he becomes both prisoner and pawn. But Frankie was never built to break. From the dark alleys of Tijuana to the blistered sands of Baja, Border Run unfolds with relentless grit and lyrical fire. It’s a story of betrayal and redemption, family and faith, where loyalty is tested by ghosts and salvation walks a knife’s edge.” So Loyal Airmen, do yourselves a favor and go on over to Amazon and get a copy. It’ll make for great summer reading.
PRESENTATION ON QUARTERMAIN & CHALLENGER
Recently one of our best Airship 27 writers, Thomas Kent Miller, gave a presentation on the history of H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quartermain hero and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Prof. George Challenger, at the senior facility in which he resides. Both heroes figure into his new book, “13.5 Billion_Year Detour.” With an audience of thirty five attentive fellow residents, the event was such a success, the home’s Activities Director has asked Thomas to give the talk at other local facilities. Below is the illustrative board he put together for his presentation. Excellent job, Thomas.
ONE BROTHER BONES PANEL PEEK
Although we don’t want to give away too much more on this great new Rob Davis BROTHER BONES strip, we figured one little old panel would suffice to keep you all excited. Oh, yeah.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA!!!
And so, we end this entry on the 4th of July, in time to say loudly – HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA!!! The greatest country in the world. Period. The Air Chief has seen others, non comes close. Thank you Founding Fathers, thank you U.S. Military and most of all, thank you God.
Greetings Loyal Airmen. We start this week’s Flight Log with some great news. A year ago, the creative comic team of Ceasar Feliciano and Fortier, debut the first issue of their modern-day spy thriller, “Jin & Tonik.” Based on an idea by Feliciano and expanded and scripted by yours truly, the story focuses on two deadly assassins from different backgrounds and their eventual collision. Matt Webb joined the team with coloring the first half and later Mike Belcher added his marvelous lettering to complete the book. An independent project, the book was crowd-funded and a set number of copies were printed. Those copies quickly sold-out and many of your loyal fans weren’t able to pick one up. Now the issue, in its entirety is available at Amazon and already selling nicely. Now it is available to general public at Amazon. Issue two is currently in production.
AND IN BOOK # 2
Here we have Pg 15 from JIN & TONIK # 2 beautifully colored by the amazing Matt Webb. His colors bring so much to the story. We’re so lucky to have him as part of the team.
BEYOND THE STARS # 5
Here we go, Loyal Airmen, the pencils from artist Andrea Bormida for pages 19 & 20 of issue # 5 of our sci-fi saga, “Beyond the Stars.” Two more pages to go and this issue is completed!!! Oh yeah, am so excited to know the final issue is just around the corner.
WHEN GOD ANSWERS
Most of you Loyal Airmen are aware that our faith means a great deal to us. More than mere words can express at times. Soooo….recently the Air Chief had been wrestling with a question of conscience about certain creative projects we’d been involve with and were looking for some indication of which way to go moving forward. Along about this time, we went on Amazon to purchase a small desk statue of Saint Joseph holding the baby Jesus. We wanted it to accompany the one of the Blessed Virgin Mary that we’ve had on our desk for several years. Alright, so this past week, that new stature arrived and we placed on our desk, a few inches away from the one of Mother Mary. The next morning, upon booting up our PC, up in our email comes the latest page of “The Boston Bombers” for issue # 3 by artist Rob Davis. We start scrolling down the panels, as ever delighted by Rob’s beautiful artwork when our eyes fall on the very last panel on the page…and….well, take a look at the photo above. Coincidence, no such thing, if you truly believe all things that happen are the will of the Father. As we do. And seeing that panel, we understood the answer we’d been praying for. That’s all we’ll say about that, save to say, prayer is powerful stuff, but you have to believe He does answer. Because, my dear Loyal Airmen, we know. He always does.
NEVER GROW OLD
Finally we want to end this week’s Flight Log with some melancholy thoughts we hope you’ll all appreciate. As a child, our favorite Disney animated feature was Peter Pan. Seeing it for the first time, the Air Chief was in awe of a world where one never ever had to grow up. Never-Never Land. A magic place where youth was eternal, along with playing games, and creating all kinds of wild and free mischief, never mind even being able to fly. Over the years, the film became even more endearing as we came to understand aging physically and “growing old” are two different things. Really staying young is about living life to the fullest, relishing all its beautiful moments and learning to love. So as time went on and we became a comic book guy, we eventually got to write our own new Peter Pan adventure and had the pleasure of seeing beautifully illustrated by our dear pal, Gary Kato. Initially it was published by Adventure Comics, a subline of the old Malibu Comics. Then a few years back, we managed to collect all the original pages and had them re-colored by the super talented Aiden Belcher. Once done, Rod Davis published the book via his Redbud Studio and it remains available to one and all at Amazon. Recently, we gave a copy to a friend who then reported one of her daughters loves it and they take turns reading to each other almost every night. Even to the point her daughter has memorized many of the lines of dialog. Hearing that we were so happy. Apparently some of that magic pixie dust that rubbed off on the Air Chief all those years ago is still working its magic. Currently, we have absolutely no plans of growing old.
Recently friends of Val and the Air Chief were hoping to visit Denver and attended the Andrea Bocelli concert appearance at the Ball Arena. Sadly, there was a conflict in their schedules after they’d purchased the tickets which were non-refundable. Aware that we are Colorado citizens, they called and offered us the tickets. The chance to spend an evening listening to one of the greatest singers of our time was something we were not about to pass up, Loyal Airmen.
For almost two and a half hours, Bocelli, and his troop of singers and dancers entertained a crowd of thousands, including Val and the Air Chief. Before the show got underway, a friendly stranger offered to snap the picture of us in front of the stage. It turned out great, save for the fact the digital show going on the background bathed the entire arena in a blue light. Ha. When seeing it Val, cringed. Hey, a minor annoyance compared to the sheer joy of listening to one of the most beautiful voices God has ever graced our world with. Mr. Bocelli is a treasure, a gifted man of faith he loves sharing that gift with the rest of us. It was a night we will never ever forget.
THE CRIMSON NUN 2 NEARS FINISH
Don’t look now, Loyal Airmen, but it looks like The Crimson Nun Issue # 2 is getting closer and closer to be all wrapped up. Super artist Jesse Thomas has pretty much finished drawing all 23 pgs. What is left is for him to color them, and then ship them off to artist Mike Belcher for lettering. Once that’s done, it’s off to Ben Dunn and Antarctic Press. Keep those fingers crossed. This one was worth the wait. Oh, yeah.
JIN & TONIK # 2
Meanwhile over in Japan, things are happening in JIN & TONIK Issue # 2 by the incredibly gifted Cesar Feliciano. Each new page has us smiling from ear to ear. Hopefully we’ll soon see a new colored page from Matt Webb as well.
CAN YOU FIND THE BROTHER BONES COVER?
Above is a panel from a new Bun Dunn comic from Antarctic Press. Not the first time Ben had done this little fun gimmick. He’s hero is in a comic shop, so Ben goes to Facebook and invites comic creators to send him the covers to their comics to slap on the wall of this make believe comic book shop. The Air Chief wasted no time sending him our cover to the one and only (to date) Brother Bones comic. It’s # 5 from the left on the top row. Thanks Ben, these kind of things are always fun and support the entire independent comic community.
SPEAKING OF THE UNDEAD AVENGER
Speaking of Brother Bones, here’s a peek at a few more panels from Rob Davis’ short Bones tale which will be featured as a bonus back-up to the first issue of the new comic series coming very, very soon now.
BEYOND THE STARS # 5
And leave us not forget BEYOND THE STARS # 5 is getting closer and closer to the end of it’s adventure. As indicated by the two pages above (18 to left penciled and inked – 19 to right pencils). Artist Andrea only has three more pages after these and we hand it over to Silverline Comics. Being the fifth of a six issue mini-series, you can see, Loyal Airmen, why we are getting excited. Only one final issue to go!!!
And there you have it, Loyal Airmen, this week’s Flight Log. As you can see, lots of great things happening. Thanks ever for stopping by and hope to see you all back here next Friday morning, nice and early. Ron – Over & Out!
So before anything else, the Air Chief wants to thank all of you who joined in our joy at being cancer free. And to those who shared their own stories of dealing with that awful disease, your victories and your losses, our hearts to go out to all of you. Let’s continue to pray that one day, God will bless doctors and scientist with a true cure for every single cancer. Amen.
BROTHER BONES PEEK PAGE
Last week we explained how the forthcoming Brother Bones crowdfunding comics will each feature a bonus short strip at the back. Well, the first such, written by yours truly, is currently being illustrated by Rob Davis and we thought you’d like a peek at page one. Believe, when the main artist on the graphic novel, Joe Arnold, saw this page, he flipped out. Oh yeah, we’ve got a winner coming your way, Loyal Airmen. Be patient.
JIN & TONIK # 2
And here we have Pg # 23 if JIN & TONIK issue # 2 by the always amazing Cesar Feliciano. We are still working with a small independent comic publisher to make this series available to all via Amazon. Stay tuned.
BEYOND THE STARS # 5
Finally we’ll end this week’s entry with a bit of behind the scenes on writing a comic page. Our super talented partner on the sci-fi series, BEYOND THE STARS, recently wrote that he was getting set to draw the remaining few pages of issue # 5. Andrea works on multiple series at the same time (like many of today’s artists) and was finishing up on another project. In sending us this e-mail, he included the page 18 panel break-downs he put on paper. At first the Air Chief only laughed deciding that alone would be nothing to post here. But upon further thought, we thought you Loyal Airmen might like to see the corresponding page of script and how the Air Chief wrote it. And that’s above to the left. The sequence is part of the space battle between the Science Warriors and several giant stone warriors. You’ll note our exposition is very, very minimal, as Andrea is already familiar with how all these elements look. Nor do we tell which panel is more important visually than the other four. Again, that’s his call, he’s the artist. We never take that hat. Finally, per our habit of many, many years, we never forget that comics are a visual media and the more panel one has on a comic page, the smaller the artwork will be. Not want any comic fan ever wants. We want big panels giving our artists lots of room to show of their amazing pictures. Do keep in mind, this is only Andrea’s first break-down of the panels. Often time, when he begins drawing, he’ll change them if he’s a better way to compose the page. And trust us, Loyal Airmen, when it is all done, those now empty boxes are going to contain some truly beautiful pictures. Oh, yeah.
ANOTHER I.V. FROST MYSTERY
Finally some really fun news. One of the coolest classic pulp heroes ever created was Professor I.V. Frost. His inventor was writer Donald Wandrei, who during his career, wrote 18 I.V. Frost tales that all appeared in Clues Magazine. Over the past decade or so, the Air Chief has had the pleasure writing several new I.V. Frost stories for Moonstone Books, edited by pal Joe Gentile. Above is a drawing of Frost and his beautiful blonde assistant, Jean Moray. In those years we’ve written two Frost short stories and one full color comic book, which was published by Redbud Studio and contained two I.V. Frost adventures illustrated by our Mr. Jigsaw collaborator, Gary Kato. Anyway, this is our round-about way of letting you know, long ago last year, if not earlier, we actually penned a third I.V. Frost story called “Recipe For Murder” and two days ago were notified by Joe that they are getting ready to publish it. Into what book or anthology, we’ve yet to learn, but as soon as we do, we’ll post it here and where you Loyal Airmen can pick up copies. For the Air Chief, we’re wound for sound. These are great, fun characters and it is going to be great to see them in print once again.
And there you have it for this week, crew. As ever thanks for stopping by, hope you’re all enjoying the warm summer weather and we look forward to seeing you back here next Friday. Ron – Over & Out!
Greetings Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief is really excited about the progress artist Joe Arnold is making on the new Brother Bones graphic novel. In first planning out the project, Joe determined that he would break up my 130 pg script into multi-issues, each would have its own campaign funding drive. But at the same time he thought it would be fun to add a short, “bonus” Brother Bones short story at the back of each of this issues. To that end, we immediately wrote several and delivered them to Joe. His plan was to recruit several different artists pals to illustrate them. One of those being our amigo, Rob Davis…and we wrote Rob’s “Nowhere to Hide” especially for him. Okay, so that’s one down. Now imagine my pleasant surprise when Joe messaged me that he has an idea of his own for a short and would we like to hear it. Talk about commitment to a project. Of course, we replied and he went and sent us page break-downs above right and a detailed plot summary. We loved the story and have already scripted it. We’re calling it “Danny and the Party Girl.” As you can see, this project is already much fun. Oh, and before we forget, each issue will have two different covers, with Joe doing the primary and another artist taking on the alternate. Issue number one’s alternate is in Rob’s capable hands. We can’t wait to see both. Oh, yeah!
MAN IN THE MASK
Still one of my favorite comics being published today by pal Mike Belcher. Mike W. Belcher’s MAN IN THE MASK, comics available at amkcomics.bigcartel.com – Do yourselves a favor, Loyal Airmen and pick up a copy today.
THE NEW BLACK TERROR CREATIVE TEAM
As you may recall from last week’s entry, Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief is writing a brand new Black Terror comic for Antarctic Press to be illustrated by super comics pro, Dell Barrass and colored by my Silverline Podcast co-host David Rios. Well, as of this week we’ve completed the creative team by recruiting a very talented young letterer, one Oluwadamilola Akinwale Akinayo. Oh, yeah, that’s certainly an African mouthful indeed, whereas he’s okay with the nickname Dami. With him now on board, we hope to start scripting issue # 1 very shortly. Especially after the BIG NEWS we’re saving for last here.
THE BIG AND WONDERFUL NEWS
If you’ll allow me, I’m going to forego the editorial “we” here to thank all of you Loyal Airmen from the bottom of my heart. As most of you know, about a month ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer and thus began a series of tests, blood work and body scans. On the 9th of May I had a mastectomy that removed my left breast. I was told this was a stage one cancer and that my chances were good. Whatever it is doctors mean by that. Both Valerie and I are practicing Catholics and share a strong faith in our lord, Jesus Christ. And so prior to the surgery we’d begun praying, asking all our family, friends and colleagues to join us in the hopes of a positive outcome. All the while, I gave myself up to His will, whatever it would be. So, the surgery went well, really well. There was no post pain what so ever and we began to consider what would come next. Words like chemo and radiation had been used and we knew those kind of post-surgery things were possible….depending solely on the full results of the surgery samples taken from lymph nodes remove etc. So we continued to pray. I knew I was in his hands all the time. This past week, Val and I met with the oncologist in charge of my case and were told, due to the data collected, the odds of this type of cancer ever returning within the next ten years were all of 4%. At which point the doc looked at me with a giant smile on her face and said, “Ron, no chemo.” My head dropped and some tears began to form, I felt Jesus’ love for me and this was totally answered prayer. The prayers you Loyal Airmen and all our dear, dear friends and family offered on my behalf. Jesus heard them….and according to his will, he answered them. Moving forward, I most likely will be taking a pill that will be preventative in assuring that cancer does not return and there may be a few side affects, but I’m more than okay with that. Whatever. When I was scared, I prayed to Jesus that I would walk down whatever path he had in store for me, as long as he held my hand. He continues to do so and your old Air Chief is truly one blessed dude. God bless every one of you in abundance, and please, pray to him, he loves you more than you can possibly imagine.
Greetings Loyal Airmen, as we say good-bye to May and get ready for full-on Summer with June, we thought we’d bring you up to speed on certain titles and where they are at production-wise. So let’s get started.
JIN & TONIK # 2
Artist Cesar Feliciano continues to wow yours truly with his amazong artwork as coupled with Matt Webb’s gorgeous coloring. Above right is Pg # 14 of issue # 2 which is coming along smoothly, and quickly. Much to the Air Chief’s delight. We think this is one comic book you Loyal Airmen are going to love.
NEW TAKES ON OLD CHARACTERS
The Black Terror is a fictional comic book superhero debuting in Exciting Comics #9, published by Nedor Comics in January 1941. The character was popular and, on the strength of the Black Terror’s sales, Nedor made Exciting Comics a monthly magazine starting with issue #11 (July 1941). The Black Terror was the most popular superhero in Nedor’s stable, and appeared in a quarterly solo comic book as well as the lead feature in America’s Best Comics and Exciting Comics until 1949. Some Black Terror stories were written by Patricia Highsmith before she became an acclaimed novelist. The character has been revived by various publishers over the years, including AC Comics, Eclipse Comics, America’s Best Comics, and Dynamite Entertainment.
The above paragraph of comic history is offered because last week, comic writer/editor/publisher Ben Dunn, on creative whim, whipped up his own quite radical take on the character. So outlandish in fact, he appropriate labeled him ABSOLUTE BLACK TERROR. He commented wondering if such a “take” might be worth developing. Which is where the Air Chief comes in. We thought the sketch was terrific and began getting ideas that might be perfectly suited to this new version. After writing Ben, we got his okay to see what we could develop. Happily, at the same this was happening, we’d recently been contacted by industry professional artist, Dell Barras, about the possibilities of us working together on a project. The Air Chief wasted no time in discussing this character with Dell and he Signed on immediately. What happens next is this. If Dell and the yours truly can produce a 24 page, full color comic, Ben is willing to take it on, build the funding campaign and get it published. Dell did the sketch above left of the character and his alter ego, a nebbish college professor. All sounded great, but we were still missing to two important members of our project team, a pro-caliber colorist and letterer. Enter super colorist, David Rios, our co-host on the Tues Silverline Podcast. That’s his colors on Del’s sketch. We love it. Now all that remains is for us to find a letterer and we’re off to races. Wish us luck, Loyal Airmen. As always, we’ll keep you posted.
A DREAM OF DAD
A few nights ago we had a dream of our father, George Fortier. It’s been a long, long time since that’s happen and it was a really nice surprise. Above are a couple of pictures we have tacked out one of our walls here in the house. The large photo of him was taken only a few weeks before he passed away at the age of 59. Way too soon. It was rough on all of us in the family. The smaller pix at bottom right is happier times for us, that being Mom and Dad holding up yours truly as a little fellow. We’ve spent the last few days thinking about this new dream and spiritual grateful for it. Thanks for visiting Dad, and for keeping an eye on us all the time.
And that’s it for this week’s entry, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday morning. Ron – Over & Out!
Greetings Loyal Airmen, we kick off this week’s Flight Log with the proud release of our latest Dan Fowler G-Man anthology, Vol 5. This one was written entirely by pulp scribe Fred Adams, Jr. featuring a novel length adventure a smaller bonus short. All black and white interior illustrations are by artist Sam Salas with Michael Youngblood providing that spiffy cover above. As ever the book is now available from Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle. Again, thanks so much for all your support.
MIKE JOINS BROTHER BONES TEAM
One of the most underappreciated elements of good comics is the lettering. It is that art of placing the words that bridges the visual and literal aspects of storytelling and merges them into what we call a comic book. In the industry a handful of artists know how to do it beautifully. One of those is our good buddy, Mike Belcher, the artist/writer of his own amazing series, “The Man in the Mask” which we love. Thus, when artist Joe Arnold, made it known he was looking for someone to letter our Brother Bones graphic novel, a task he does not feel comfortable with, we immediately reached out to Mike. Note, among his own projects and other Silverline titles, Mike is also lettering our “Beyond the Stars” – “Jin & Tonik” and “The Crimson Nun.” More than plenty of work for any one artist. And still, he agreed to sign to this project. We simply cannot thank him enough. Mike, we owe you big time.
AND SOME PAGES
So while on the subject of that Brother Bones graphic novel, we thought it only fitting we give you a sneak peek and two of the completed pages by Joe that Mike will soon be lettering. This is clearly some of Joe’s finest work ever and you can tell how much fun he is having bringing this tale to life.
SINBAD THE NEW ADVENTURES Vol 8
And now to announce the release of our second Airship 27 title for the week, SINBAD – The New Voyages Vol 8 with stories by Erik Franklin, Carson Demmans, Terry Wijesurgiya & J. Walt Layne. Our deal pal, Gary Kato provided all the black and white interior illustrations and Michael Youngblood once again took on cover duty with the magnificent piece above. As ever, available at Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle. Phew, talk about a busy week.
THE CRIMSON NUN # 2
And here we have two pencil pages by artist Jesse Thomas for issue # 2 of The Crimson Nun. Jesse is nearly done with the issue and we couldn’t be more excited.
JIN & TONIK # 2
And finally we wrap this week with Cesar Feliciano’s Pg 22 of JIN & TONIK from issue # 2. Both Cesar and the Air Chief are have a blast with this story and these great characters. Thanks for your continued support, Loyal Airmen.
GREETINGS LOYAL AIRMEN, with May upon us we’re really enjoying the warm, Spring weather here in Northern Colorado. Last week was really one the Air Chief will never forget from the election of the first ever American Pope, Leo IV, may God bless and guide him; to our own breast surgery. It was a busy time at Hangar 27. So now let’s get back to some tried and true “normal” things.
BEYOND THE STARS # 5
Things are really heating fast in the last few pages of BEYOND THE STARS issue # 5 as brilliantly illustrated by Andrea Bormida and colored by Angelo Vecciarelli. The guys only have another 4 pages to do and that issue is wrapped up. Wahooo!!!
THE CRIMSON NUN # 2
Happy to have found the above pencils this afternoon from artist Jesse Thomas, as he moves ever closer to wrapping issue # 2 of our series THE CRIMSON NUN for Ben Dunn’s Antarctic Press.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOOMER!
The handsome Golden Lab above is our boy, Boomer. Earlier this week, he turned two years old. All of us love him so much. He’s brought so much joy and fun to our family. The last photo is Boomer with our grand=daugher’s beautiful husky, Aurora. They are play pals. Anyways, Happy Birthday Boomer!!!
And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. A wee bit on the short side, but it’s okay to rest up once in a while. The Air Chief continues to recover slowly and we will have our first post-operation visit next week. We’ll keep you posted. Till then take care, Ron – Over & Out!
Greetings Loyal Airmen, if all goes as plan, you should be reading this on Thursday, 8th May instead of the usual Friday morning. The reason being, our breast surgery is scheduled for the tomorrow and we wanted to assure we could get this Flight Log off before then. The one thing was have to do is thank all of you who send in well-wishes and prayers upon learning of my cancer. All these have made Val and the Air Chief so grateful. Above is one such get well card sent to us by friends Olivia & Zane Degaine, wherein Zane thought to do this little cartoon the envelope itself (as depicted above) and we love it. Put a huge smile on our faces. Again, thanks to all of you, keep those prayers coming. And hopefully, we’ll be back next Friday with a positive post operative report. God bless you all.
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY FUN
Once again, last Saturday’s Free Comic Book Day found the Air Chief joining the fun at Gryphon’s Games and Comics here in Fort Collins. We had so much fun and sold lots of comics and pulps. The big winner among our regular fans was THE CRIMSON NUN # 1. Folks were excited about the concept and anxious to see issue # 2, just as much as we are.
BEYOND THE STARS # 5
The action starts to heat up in this issue, as beautiful illustrated by artist Andrea Bormida. Up to 17 pgs penciled and ink, he has 5 left and issue # 5 is a wrap.
MORE BROTHER BONES
Whereas many of you Loyal Airmen were blown away by our showing off artist Joe Arnold’s early work on the new Brother Bones Graphic Novel, we thought we’d show you a few more pages. We are so excited about this project and truly amazed by Joe’s wonderful artwork.
FINALLY FROM JIN & TONIK
And finally we’re going to wrap up this week’s Flight Log with this wicked cool sketch of Sammy Jin from the spy series JIN & TONIK by the Air Chief and super artist Cesar Feliciano. We so love the work Cesar has done on this series. It’s inspired. Hopefully we’ll be seeing lots more in the weeks and months ahead as he plows through issue # 2. Stay tuned.
THANKS AGAIN
And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. Tomorrow my surgery and moving from that to recovery. All your thoughts and prayers have lifted us up these past crazy few weeks. God is good, he made beautiful people like you. Ron – Over & Out!
