All-Star Pulp Comics Now Available!

ALL-STAR PULP COMICS Volume 4 REDBUD STUDIO & AIRSHIP 27 presents this newest issue featuring three amazing heroes: Mask of the Gargoyle (created by Dario Carrasco) as he battles remnants of the Third Reich in “Rockets Red Glare”; golden age comics great The Veiled Lady as she takes on crooked government officials in “The Veiled Avenger” and; Major Liberty, where the U.S. Army debuts its very own super-heroine “Operation: American Maid.” Amazing pulp comic adventures featuring writer Ron Fortier with artists Montos, Kevin Broden and Kevin Wiggins. Edited by Rob Davis. This is 40 pages of non-stop action pulp style!  Cover by Rob Davis pits our three heroes against an army of ninjas.

Available from Amazon.

SECRET AGENT X -- First Ever Comic Book Adventure

Redbud Studio is proud to announce the release of the first ever Secret Agent X comic book adventure.  Written by Ron Fortier, this 29 pg black and white original story is fully illustrated by Rob Davis who also delivered the stunning cover. “Race Against the Devil,” has the Man of a Thousand Faces combating an elite unit of Nazis saboteurs plotting to assassinate a foreign ambassador visiting the US.  As a special bonus, this special one shot also includes a two page essay by pulp writer Frank Schildiner on the appeal of this classic pulp hero.

Published via Barry Gregory’s Ka-Blam, the book is now available at their on-line store, Indy Planet.

Airship 27 and Redbud Announce Simon Pryce Comic!

Veteran comics writer Ron Fortier and newcomer Bill Gladman, have created an old fashion hero straight out of the paperbacks of the 60’s and 70’s and deliver up three stand alone mysteries wonderfully illustrated by Brian Latimer, Rob Davis and Barry McCalin Jr.  Welcome to Motor City and its newest hero, Simon Pryce, Private Eye.

Note, Amazon misspelled the character’s name in their listing. You can find the book at this link.

The Writer Will Take Your Questions Now #281 -- Recent New Favorites

Who's your favorite golden age pulp character that you discovered relatively recently? -- Jim Beard

For me, these new "faves" came from accepting gigs to write them for anthologies. I knew nothing of them prior to the research required to begin the writing, but felt instantly drawn to the characters as if they were old friends I'd been writing and reading for years.

For prose, they were Armless O'Neil and a certain beauty I can't discuss at the moment. But I really, really (can I add another really and get away with it?) loved writing and reading Armless O'Neil. He was a character I was immediately hooked on and felt like I "got" right off the bat.

To boil him down to his key character is simply this: Take Humphrey Bogart's Charlie Allnut out of The African Queen and give him a hook for a hand, then saddle him with adventures more typical of Allan Quatermain, then shake and pour, voila!

For comics, it would have to be The Blue Lady (whom I wrote in All Star Pulp Comics #1). She grabbed me the same way Armless did. She's a typical old-school pulp supporting lady rather than a heroine at first, but when she receives a ring that gives her the power to beat back guys to a pulp, she does what any other lady of the era would in a comic book and puts on a mask and costume to fight crime.

Even though she was only in three back-up features in Amazing Man Comics in the early 1940s (October '41 - January '42, to be precise) , I felt she needs and deserves more stories --which is something Jim Ritchey and I are currently working on. We'll keep you posted.

ALL-STAR PULP COMICS 2# PREVIEW

All-Star Pulp Comics #2 Cover Art in Process by Will Meugniot

Sean Taylor/Aaron Meade

Airship 27 Productions and Redbud Studio’s All-Star Pulp Comics #2 is in production and will feature comic tales of some of pulp’s favorite characters by some of New Pulp‘s best. Cover artist Will Meugniot shared his behind-the-scenes process for designing the cover on his Facebook page.

All-Star Pulp Comics #2 features a Lance Star: Sky Ranger story by Sean Taylor and Aaron Meade called “Wing Tips and Neck Ties.”

From Will Meugniot:
Here's a preview of the new cover I just completed for Airship 27's ALL-STAR PULP COMICS #2 out early next year. That complicated man with the Tommy gun is Derrick Ferguson's exciting new pulp era adventure hero, Dillon, battling unknown evils alongside classic hero Ki-gor's lovely mate, the crimson tressed Helene. On the left is the comp, at center is the inks and to the right, the finish. Hope you all will pick up a copy!

Cover Art: Jeff Butler

All-Star Pulp Comics #1 is still available.
You can find it here.

Keep watching this page for more details on All-Star Pulp Comics #2 when they become available.
 

From: ALL-STAR PULP COMICS 2 COVER PREVIEW

BOSTON BOMBERS NEW EDITION

The new Wild Wolf Edition of THE BOSTON BOMBERS is now available at both  Barnes & Noble on-line and Amazon.  This pulp inspired graphic novel was written by Ron Fortier and illustrated Chris Jones, Bob Cram Jr. and Gary Kato .  The first edition, self-published Rob Davis’ Redbud Studio won the 2010 Pulp Award for Best Pulp Comic.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS is the story of an alternate world where Jesus was female and accepted as the Messiah by the Jewish people.  Where the last vestiges of the Roman Empire continued exist in South Africa and the center of the Catholic Church is located in Jerusalem.  After this reality’s World War One, the League of Nations became a military force to maintain peace throughout the globe.

Indra Devine and her all girl team are special agents of the League on a mission to uncover the machinations of the Roman Empire whose quest for world domination is once again being felt.  From politics to religion, from gun battles and giant airships, this epic saga has everything but the kitchen sink.

“I want to thank Sean Collins of Wild Wolf Entertainment for offering up this new edition to what we hope will be a much larger audience,” Fortier applauded enthusiastically.  “This is project has always been one of my personal favorites and we continue to sell lots of copies at pulp & comic shows every year.”

THE BOSTON BOMBERS is now available at –

Barnes & Noble (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/boston-bombers-ron-fortier/1113763713?ean=9780982341773&itm=1&USRI=boston+bombers&)

At Amazon – (http://www.amazon.com/Boston-Bombers-Ron-Fortier/dp/0982341776/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353952350&sr=1-1&keywords=Boston+Bombers)

The Redbud Studios Edition is also still available – (http://www.robmdavis.com/RedbudStudio/index.html)

Bobby Nash Presents Lance Star in “Wing Tips and Neck Ties”

For Immediate Release

Bobby Nash Presents Lance Star in “Wing Tips and Neck Ties” – a new comic book short!

Atlanta, GA – Fans of Lance Star’s recent comic book story “One-Shot” who have been anticipating a new sequential adventure with the high-flying pulp hero can rest easy now. Bobby Nash presents a new story by writer Sean Taylor (Gene Simmons Dominatrix, Classics Mutilated, Robots vs. Zombies: This Means War!) and artist Aaron Meade (Pandemonium: Evil Incarnate).

The tale, entitled “Wing Tips and Neck Ties,” brings Lance back into action with the mysterious Monique San Diablo, the Saint Devil, who appeared recently in the Lance Star: Sky Ranger Volume 3 prose anthology from Airship 27 and Cornerstone Books. In this new adventure, Lance and Monique hit the skies to capture a serial killer with a unique murder weapon – his airplane!

“I’m thrilled that Bobby trust us to take Lance back into the skies in this illustrated tale. It’s got all the fun stuff I enjoy reading and writing and looking at – high flying stunts, a beautiful woman, and even a dead guy swinging from a plane thrown in for good measure. What’s not to love?” says Taylor. “And I’m thrilled to see Aaron’s take on Lance and Monique. He definitely has a Silver-Age way of thinking that’s evident in his art, and it’s a perfect fit for a good-ol’-fashioned man of action like Lance Star.”

“One of the joys of the Lance Star: Sky Ranger series of comic books and prose anthologies is seeing how different writers handle the characters. When Sean told me his idea for this story I was excited to see it,” says Bobby Nash. “And now that I’ve seen the first page of art I’m even more excited.”

For more information about Bobby Nash and Lance Star, visit www.bobbynash.com and www.lance-star.com.

For more information about Sean Taylor, visit www.taylorverse.com or his writing blog at seanhtaylor.blogspot.com.

For more information and artwork from Aaron Meade, visit myspace.com/aaronmeade.

PULPED! talks ALL STAR PULP COMICs tonight! Don't miss it!

YOU HAVE TO TUNE INTO THE FIRST EVER PULPED! SPECIAL TONIGHT! 

Two hours of pulpy goodness talking to the creators and publishers of ALL STAR PULP COMICS! Airship 27's own Ron Fortier and Rob Davis will be on tonight with the crew of talented writers they recruited for this pulp event! Barry Reese, Bobby Nash, Sean Taylor, and Adam L. Garcia will join the cast tonight and talk their stories in ALL STAR PULP COMICS and comics and pulp goodness all around! www.tmvcafe.com at 7 PM CST/8 PM EST! Your head will explode in a good pulpy way!