Meet Ron Fortier

Today we’d like to introduce you to Ron Fortier.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
From the time I was five years old, I’ve been a comic book fan. After coming home from Vietnam in 1968. I began writing and submitting story scripts to various publishers. Somewhere in the late 70s, I sold my first scripts.

Within a decade, I was writing both The Terminator and Green Hornet comic series, for Now, Comics out of Chicago. For the next twenty years, I would write such well know comic figures as Marvel’s Hulk, Popeye, Peter Pan, and Rambo. At the end of the 90s, I wrote Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Universe for Tekno Comics out of Florida.

Today, I am actively involved in eleven comic projects all in the works from westerns to sci-fi with some of the most talented graphic artists in the world. I am also the publisher of Airship 27 Production, a company that publishes new novels and anthologies based on the classic pulp heroes from the 1940s and 50s. Among these is my character, Brother Bones the Undead Avenger.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
During the heyday of my writing career, I also worked a “day job” at a manufacturing facility which provided my wife and children with great health benefits. I use to say the factory paid the bills while the writing fed my soul.

Naturally in the early days, I also amassed my share of rejection slips. I still get them. It’s part of the whole freelance writing gig. I’ve always seen my storytelling ability as a gift from God and give Him all the glory and honor for it.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I’m a storyteller. With prose, I tend to write action-adventure novels that are fast-paced and hopefully exciting for my readers. I do my best two combine solid characterization with the action sequences. In writing comic scripts, I am well aware I am the second storyteller, the artist is the first.

My scripts tend to be very lean as I am creating a story skeleton for the artist to add muscle and sinew…and his or her storytelling visual narrative. If anything sets me apart, I’d hope it is my positive approach to storytelling, good always wins out. And my believable characters that readers can relate to and be inspired by.

What were you like growing up?
Shy, introverted though nothing could stop me from making up ghost stories to the other kids in the neighborhood. I was deadly afraid of girls too. They were mysterious creatures to me. My wife will tell you some of that still mystifies me.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.airship27.com