Greetings Loyal Airmen, well, as expected, our fourth trip to the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con was a terrific good time.  We got caught up with lots of old friends and fans and met many more new ones.  Our congratulations to Doug Ellis who has put this show on for ten years now and it continues to get better with each new year.
 
   
      From Left – Wayne Reinagle, Van Plexico, Mark Maddox, the Air Chief & Rob Davis

Happily over ten members of our internet group, the Pulp Factory were also on hand to help us celebrate the fun of pulps.  Note, our Airship 27 Productions table was chock full of great titles. When Rob and the Air Chief first  came to Windy City we only had five or six titles on our table.  Now our catalog offers twenty-six pulp books. At this show we sold half our stock.

Of course one of the highlights of this particular show was the awarding of the first ever Pulp Factory Awards for new pulp fiction and art.  Just prior to the 8 PM Auction, on Friday night, the Air Chief announced the winners and handed out two of the four awards.  These awards were all for work published in 2009.

Massachusetts based writer, Thomas E.Sniegoski won Best Pulp Novel, LOBSTER JOHNSON – THE SATAN FACTORY published by Dark Horse Press.  The hero is a character created from Mike Mignola's best selling HELLBOY comic book series.

Then our very own SHERLOCK HOLMES – CONSULTING DETECTIVE Vol.One walked off with the remaining three awards.  A really wonderful achievement.

     
                     Writer Andrew Salmon at a show in Vancouver, Canada

Airship 27 Productions writer Andrew Salmon won Best Pulp Short Story for “The Adventure of the Locked Room” from this anthology.  Note he has a copy of the book, plus several others he has penned for us. Way to go, Andrew.

      
       Mark Maddox & Rob Davis

Best Pulp Cover went to Mark Maddox for this same Sherlock Holmes collection, while our very own art director, Rob Davis, took home the Best Pulp Interior Art for the same volume.  All in all a wonderful achievement for our talented crew and one we soundly applaud.  If you haven't picked up either of these two books, Loyal Airmen, you really should do so. They are truly memorable reading experiences.

In the weeks ahead we will be posting lots more photos from the show highlight lots of the Airship 27 crew.  After the con, Val and the Air Chief then spent an additional three days in Chicago with our daughter Heather, who gave us the grand tour of that marvelous city.  Quite honestly, we never thought we would ever enjoy a big metropolitan city and Chicago proved us wrong in so many enjoyable ways.  It truly is a terrific place to live.

There you have it Loyal Airmen.  Another show come and gone. In two days, Ye Old Air Chief will be at the Knights of Columbus hall in downtown Rochester, NH as part of the Jetpack Comic Shop Free Comic Book Day, a fun all-day event for the entire family.  If you are in the area, please, stop on by.  We'll have lots of copies of MR.JIGSAW and our new BOSTON BOMBERS graphic novel. Hope to see many of you there.

Till next Friday, take care.  Ron, Over & Out!