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.

LETTERERS ROCK!

4 Sep | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief was pleasantly surprised this past Tuesday Sept 1st to see the above posting on Facebook. We knew we had to share it. When we taught classes on writing comics and graphic novels, one of our key points was the importance of good lettering. You take pages of art and a type script and combine them; only then do you have a comic book. So folks who can write in the word balloons, captions, credits etc. of the true unsung heroes of the media. Their words have to be clear, precise and legible at the same time not being obtrusive or stand out. Good lettering should be read without a second thought, as if it wasn’t even there. Good comic book letterers are the stars of our business and we salute all of them.

JIN & TONIK # 2

PLAYING WITH A-I

A few weeks ago, while surfing the web, we tripped over a site using A-I to manipulate pictures and offer folks stylized versions of their favorite photos. On a whim, the Air Chief grabbed the pix above (to left), one of favorites, and ran it through this program. We were mildly surprised to see the cleaned up, almost cartoon-like results. What amuses me the most is the darn machine gave the Air Chief a great looking pair of dentures. Oh the stuff of dreams, ha.

BROTHER BONES Book # 2

Meanwhile artist Joe Arnold continues his work on the cover to the Brother Bones Origin Graphic Novel. We’ve shown you his early roughs and then soft pencils. Now with the inks, he’s getting closer and closer to delivering what will be a truly dynamic image. Can’t wait to see it done and fully colored!

THE ORIGINAL VIGILANTE

One of the early golden age heroes of DC comics was the Vigilante, a modern day cowboy who by day was singing troubadour, Greg Saunders, at a metropolitan radio station. But by night, he’d don his bandana mask, hop on his motorbike (band then it was more a scooter) and go hunt up big city owlhoots. We loved the character and in the 60s, when DC brought him back in a round of back stories in other titles, they had the incredible artist Gray Morrow illustrate his new adventures. In 1947 Columbia Pictures released a cliff-hanger serial based on the character and starring Ralph Byrd. The same Ralph Byrd who starred in the highly popular Dick Tracy serials for Republic. Anyway someone used A-I to whip up the cool picture above and we just had to share it with all you Loyal Airmen.

And that’s a wrap for this week. As ever, thanks stopping by and we wish all of you a wonderful Labor Day weekend. God bless, Ron – Over & Out!