Welcome to Airship 27

My name is Ron Fortier, and I have been a professional writer for over forty-five years. I have worked on comic book projects such as The Hulk, Popeye, Rambo and Peter Pan. With my two most popular comic series being The Green Hornet and The Terminator (with Alex Ross). With Ardath Mayhar I penned two TSR fantasy novels, and in 2001 I had my first play, a World War II romantic comedy, produced.

This site serves as a portfolio of the work I’ve done to date, as a showcase for projects in the works, and as home for my online Journal (below), which will be updated frequently.

I am currently writing and producing pulp novels and short stories for various publishers and have several movie scripts floating around Hollywood looking for a home, and if that isn’t enough, I also have a review column at the www.pulpfictionreviews.blogspot.com website.

A devoted grandfather of six, at 75, I am thrilled to be part of the new web-comic evolution. Part of this joy is in the realization of a life long dream, that of becoming a pulp writer.

Thanks for visiting, and enjoy your stay.

WHEN ORIGINALITY STRIKES!!

29 May | '2026

Creating Loyal Airmen, hope all of you had an enjoyable Memorial Day holiday off of work. Time to visit relatives and remember all those brave men and women who fought and died for our country. Dear Lord in Heaven, let us never ever forge them. We owe them everything. Okay, so let’s see what’s been happening around old Hangar 27 and we kick off with a truly remarkable book.

THE EDGE OF BORDEN

Shortly after moving out here to Colorado years ago, Valerie and the Air Chief met a young comic creator named Jon Bonjou and his sister Jamie. All of us ended up tabling at Free Comic Book Day often, then Jon took one of our “How to Write Comics & Graphic Novels” classes we teaching at a local community college. He was extremely talented, both in writing and drawing and all of us became fast friend. Several years ago time sped up and Jon met the lovely Darcy and they were married. Shortly thereafter they packed their bags and took off for Texas. Needless to say all of us here missed them greatly. Then several weeks ago, after several years gone, Jon and Darcy returned and after having been to Hong Kong, Thailand and finally a year in New Zealand. All of us were thrilled to have them home again. So much so that the Air Chief suggested to Jon that we have coffee at a local coffee shop to really catch up. And we did. Now imagine our surprise when, after taking our seats at a table by a window, Jon plops this massive, 180 pg comic book on the table and says, “I brought you something.” This is a project he’d been working on for more than a year on his Patreon page and after having completed six full color chapters of the story decided to get printed up and are we ever glad he did. Honestly, Loyal Airmen, “Edge of Bordertown” is by far one of the most outrageous, insane original comics we’ve ever had the joy of reading. The basic plot is the world has gone CRAZY. Yup, all sanity has somehow disappeared and the survivors are forced to deal with living plant monsters, ghost highways, flying whales, giant dice that roll around the landscape destroying houses and a hero who happens to have an octopus head named Q’Rakkan!!!! Okay, so our initial reaction was, “Poor Jon has lost his mind.” Then we started reading, turning the pages…and lo and behold that crafty rascal sucked us in totally. Really. There is more imagination in one page of this book then hundreds of other comic titles combined. And don’t try to label it. It is weird, funny. touching, insightful and yeah, sometimes scary. Thing is it all works and it is SO unique, one quickly understand only Jon could have created it. It is his vision and we applauded it soundly. If you are interested, you can pick up a copy here. (https://www.jonbonart.com/shop) Tell them the Air Chief sent you.

SINBAD – The Voyages Vol 9

Don’t look now, Loyal Airmen, but Airship 27 Production has just released it’s new title, and it happens to be the 9th volume of our fun adventure series, “Sinbad – The New Voyages.” This volume features two full length novellas, one by Richard C. White and the other by Fred Adams Jr. Our buddy Gary Kato provides the wonderful nine black and white interior illustrations and Michael Youngblood turns in that great cover seen above. This is Michael’s second Sinbad cover for. We could be happier. As ever the book is now available up at Amazon in paperback and within a day or so it will be on Kindle. And again, thank you Loyal Airmen for your wonderful and continued support.

JIN & TONIK # 2 UPDATES

While chatting on FB Messenger last evening with fellow comic creator, Roland Mann, he posted the above image and asked if we recognized the characters and knew the artist responsible for it. Of course we immediately told him he had a wonderful, early sketch of Jin & Tonik, the two characters created by artist Cesar Feliciano, and now appearing in their own comic series as written by yours truly. Coincidentally that same day we received a note from colorist Matt Webb informing us that he was finished with several other obligations and was clearing his plate to get back to wrapping up the colors on “JIN & TONIK” issue # 2. Now that’s what we call great news. Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen, we’ll keep you posted.

And there you have this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for dropping by. Here’s hoping all of us are in for some good, warm summer weather. Ron – Over & Out!