Comic Creator and Novelist Greg Rucka

Over the past weekend, I had the great pleasure to spend a few hours hanging out with Ron Fortier, Bill Gladman, Raichal Gladman, Mark Maddox, Rob Davis and others at Pulpfest (www.pulpfest.com)! "The Summer's Leading Pulp Convention," PulpFest 2009 was a new and improved version of the venerable convention of years past catering to fans and collectors of vintage popular fiction and if what I saw was any indication, it was a massive success. During the event, as part of the con's The New Fictioneers programming, Ron Fortier tooks to the stage and read a chapter from his latest Captain Hazzard novel,Cavemen of New York. If you don't know Ron, you must be new to Comic Related as he is one of the site's true founding fathers. Ron has also been a professional writer for over thirty years, best known for his work in the comics field but quickly making an equal name for himself in the world of pulp. In comics, his Green Hornet series for Now Comics is fondly remembered. With artist Rob Davis, he launched Airship 27 Productions, a company devoted to producing new novels and anthologies starring classic pulp heroes from the thirties and forties. Among these is a series based on the 1938 one-shot pulp hero, Captain Hazzard. That, as they say, is where our story (or in this case podcast) begins!