Greetings Loyal Airmen, we still have tons of great photos from our fabulous trip to this year's Windy City Paper and Pulp show and wanted to share more of them with you this week.

            
                                       Shot of Convention Floor From on High!
Sometime during the Saturday afternoon of the show, Rob Davis climbed up on his chair to take this great shot of the convention floor.  As we'd mentioned earlier, the floor was expanded this year to make room for more vendors and as you can tell, it was put to great use.

              
                                                          Fantasy Writer David C. Smith
Over thirty years ago, when starting our writing career, the Air Chief belonged to a writers group called The Small Press Writers & Artist Organization (SPWAO).  From its ranks over the years came such great writers as Charles Saunders, Ardath Mayhar, Kevin J. Anderson and fantasy author, David C. Smith.  Lo and behold, but who walks up to our table at the show but David Smith and another old SPWAO writer, Joe Bonadonna.  We couldn't have been more surprised or delighted.  They are both great guys and eventually David is going to be bringing some of his amazing fiction to Airship 27 Productions.

           
                                                 Chicago Pulp Writer B.C. Bell
We also hooked up with lots of pulp amigos like Airship 27 writer B.C. Bell who is a Chicago native. Chris has written several stories for us including a his TALES OF THE BAGMAN book featuring his original pulp hero.  Always so much fun to spend time with Chris. A great guy and terrific writer.

            
                        Tommy Hancock & the Air Chief
A real high-light of the show for the Air Chief was meeting and getting to know Tommy Hancock of Pro Se Productions.  Based out of Batesville, Arkansas, Pro Se is another fine publisher of new pulps very much like Air ship 27 Productions and Tommy and the Air Chief had a great time talking shop.  Tommy is the force behind next month's new pulp conference/convention, PULP ARK, which will be held in Batesville.  We already got our airline tickets bought and room confirmed. Looks to be a truly great new pulp show.

         
                                                                              The Art of Abbas Saleem Khan
On other fronts, one of my internet friends of the past few years has been Abbas Saleem Khan of Pakistan. We first became friends because of two loves; comics and baseball. So recently, deciding to put Abbas' talent to use, we wrote a comic strip called THE CHALLENGE which is a sci-fi baseball tale about a robot pitcher. Abbas has started to turn in pages and they are gorgeous. We wanted to share one of his recent panels with you. This story will appear in a Twilight Star Studio comic title when finished.  We'll be sure to keep you posted.

Finally, this past week we've been invited to be a guest of the Gryphon Games & Comics shop here in Fort Collins, CO for Free Comic Book Day coming Saturday May 7th.  We're extremely excited about this event and our first opportunity to meet other area creators and fans.  If any of you Loyal Airmen live in the area, mark your calendars.

And that's a wrap for this week, Loyal Airmen.  As always, thanks for stopping by and we'll be back in seven.
Ron – Over & Out.