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Ron Fortier has been a professional comic book writer and author for almost fifty years, now.
The comic books he’s worked on are numerous and you’ve definitely heard of some of the super heroes he’s written comics for like The Hulk, Popeye,Rambo, Peter Pan, The Green Hornetand The Terminatorare just a few!
He spends a good deal of time now-a-days publishing independent comic books at his Airship27.com publisher site and let us tell you has has many, many books and comics published under his belt!
Ron is no stranger to Comic Cons and we at GoshDarnBlog caught up with him at the Fort Collins Comic Con in August 2022.
We asked Ron 4 questions so if you’re a fan of Stan Lee then you’ll really like Ron Fortier.
GoshDarnBlog asked him about his career and about how to do a Comic Con when you’re a newb.
Read on to find out below!
1. What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned from Comic Cons? What advice do you have for someone who wants to be a vendor at a Comic Con?
“…For the first time, if they are sitting behind the table alright, as a creator, is have fun! Have fun meeting people, being social and talking to ’em okay? Don’t go with the mercenary attitude of “Oooh I gotta sell all my books, oh I gotta make a profit, blah blah blah,” … if you go in with that attitude it’s like I said it’s very mercenary, very cold, and it’s not what this fandom’s about. These people are here because they love Comics. The comics that you’ve written, illustrated or whatever, it’s an opportunity for you to meet with ’em and to share with them, okay, that love and that passion, if they buy something that’s icing on the cake… but trust me okay, even if they can’t the situation is they don’t have any money or whatever and they walk on they’ll remember that conversation they’ll walk away going that was hell of a nice guy and next time if I come back and have some cash I’m stopping over and getting one of his books. And it works all the time. It’s just being honest its liking people and having fun.”
2. When’s your next class at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins?
“We are starting it back up this September, once again It’s going to be an 8 week course at the front range community college alright it’ll be on Wednesday nights from 6 to 8 at night and um basically how to write comic strips and graphic novels.”
3. What’s your comic book series Mr. Jigsaw all about?
“Mr. Jigsaw is a comedy super Hero that myself and Hawaiian artist Gary Kato created almost forty years ago now when we were first breaking into the business and it was basically a series of short stories, 8, 10 page adventures of a character who can break apart like a jigsaw puzzle, alright, he lives in the state of Maine and operates out of the city of Portland Maine he’s a young fella he’s very naïve and he thinks his ability to break apart and then reconnect is some how very cool and so it gets him into all kinds of different problems and situations but the thing is he’s so likeable and has such a close circle of friends that they always come to his aid and in the end the good guy always wins that’s Mr. Jigsaw, Man of a Thousand Parts.”
4. What’s coming up for you?
“I got a new six issue mini series it’s science fiction it’s called beyond the stars we just kickstarted issue #1 and I’m doing it with an Italian artist names Andrea Bermeda that I connected with online he’s a 30 year veteran from working in European comics so that’s the newest thing Ron forty (Fortier) has go on the shelf these days.”
I just sit there with my earphones on, not listening to any music or YouTube vlogs. I’m blogging or poet-ing or prose writing or all of that.
I hear people laughing in a weird way and now I’m comparing the barista’s laugh to some other guy in a booth across the room from me. They should both go out with each other. They have twin laughs.
A boy next to me tells his high school gf, I’ve got a cute picture of you! and she gets out of her chair to join him on his red cushioned booth seat, so she can cuddle with him while looking at the pictures on his phone.
Clop, clop, purrress, goes the wooden floor as patrons pass by. Will they spill their coffee or tea? Without a saucer underneath they’re bound to, but I did not know about saucers in cafes until I started getting pots of green tea for my table.
The door squeaks open and a chubby bald man with a beard leaves while his smell passes through my nostrils. The door opens again and he comes back inside while I realize I smelled him coming before the door opened. This is a terrible realization and I’m just glad I’m not sitting near a bathroom.
I can smell something sugary and it reminds of those ginger cookies cafes have behind the glass case with little sugar sprinkles on them.
Lots of conversation sounds spew up into the air and bounce around the wooden board walls and off the wood floor.
There’s even a child’s voice now and it all sounds nothing like a laugh track Very lively now and I’m alone typing what I’m experiencing here.
I’ve been feeling quite alone lately, so much so that I joined Tinder but I would rather talk to people, and smile and look into their eyes because apparently that’s what we are supposed to be doing because otherwise our lives are just meaningless!
I did not come up with the above new age idea on my own. Instead, an old Alan Watts recording uploaded onto a YouTube channel told me.
He’s carrying his son’s plastic sword for him and follows his son to the backdoor admiring this painting above me as he goes out. He’s looking at a painting on the wall and I know the artist who did a rendition of “When Alexander the Great Met Diogenes the Cynic.” He sat with me for a bit and drank his coffee hoping I would by a painting, but I wouldn’t.
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All For Yoo and Me
I have been to this wonderful restaurant more than once, now!
They have combo plates that are right up my alley with traditional Chinese dishes with fried rice and an egg roll for $10.95 to $11.95.
So far I’ve had the Mongolian Beef, Kung Pao Chicken (both spicy) and the Beef and Broccoli, which has become my “go to”. The egg roll is extra crispy and comes with sweet red sauce and you can get it in pork or vegetable.
A Traditional Boba for $4.95 at Tra Ling’s Cafe in Boulder, CO. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.
When there I also make sure I buy a Traditional or Green Tea Boba for $4.95.
They serve your dish fast if you sit down to eat there, which is what I do. Mostly in like five minutes or less!
The restaurant has ample space for customers. If you come here on a date you will find it comfortable and quiet. Red paper lanterns populate the ceiling and their is even a red heart theme happening on the light fixtures. I asked them if the red lanterns and hearts were used for Feng shui, but I was told the color red more represents “luck.”
I’ve sat in the restaurant a number of times by myself and I will say the the yellow walls remind me of Backrooms videos on YouTube, which is funny to me, but it’s no problem.
The restaurant is clean from top to bottom with lots of space between the tables and they have convenient electric plugs in the walls if I need it.
Ample seating at Tra Ling’s and Yoo and Me. GoshDarnBlog,com 2022.
Yoo and Me Noodle House is also a part of Tra Ling’s location. If you need a landmark this Chinese restaurant is in the DMV building off Iris in Boulder.
The hours are 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM Monday through Saturday and they’re closed on Sunday. You can order online for delivery or pickup.
If you visit their website you will see their menu is vast. They even have Vietnamese dishes.
Mongolian Beef at Tra Ling;s and Yoo and Me in Boulder, Colorado. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.
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And gives a big middle finger to Modernism
“I have,” he says with emphasis. “In that direction I have excelled everything.”
For George, painting is more about symbolism than anything else.
“Appliances or cars er (pause) I think they don’t have symbolism… Like a can of Coke has no symbolism. A cup has symbolism. A can doesn’t. For artistic purposes, if you put anything like that… just spoils your painting…”
I ask him if he knows what an NFT is and he replies, “Huh…What’s that?”
George is forty-eight years old, from Lafayette and drives into town almost every day to draw in coffee shops. He tells me his angle is “the coffee shop.” Since he was a teenager he’s been going there to learn art rather than a school.
The man sitting with me at OZO Coffee in Boulder, Colorado, is soft spoken and intelligent. In fact he’s so soft spoken I’m wondering if my recorder will pick up his voice over the funk music and the banging sounds the baristas are making behind the counter.
On this hot August day George is hunched over in a black t-shirt. His dark hair parted to the side. In the chair next to him is a weathered leather bag with a strap that makes him look like a professional when walking down the sidewalks of this town, but in his bag are pencils and paper.
He sold me two drawings for five bucks last week and I’ve been carrying them around in my laptop bag. We’d had a short conversation about visibility or how my blog doesn’t get any hits, like he wasn’t going to do the interview with me because of it.
I was introduced to him several years before Covid and saw some of his paintings hanging up at Avante Coffee on Walnut. He had nudes, which I thought were cool and something you don’t see often in Boulder.
Courtesy George Dessev “The Funeral of Robin Hood”
Another time I saw his self-portrait, a striking painting, but something every famous painter has done, like Van Gogh for instance. George’s self-portrait looked similar to portraits from several hundred years ago, like you would see on the walls whenever you visit a well-known museum.
In the days of the Maya and Aztecs they had reflecting ponds to look down into to study the reflection of the stars above in the night sky.
The Washington Monument even has a reflection pond in front of it. Conspiracy theory, anyone?
We don’t do the reflection pond technique anymore, though. Now we crane our necks like morons and look up into a polluted sky and mistake satellites and planets for UFOs because we are near sighted.
Mostly we take random photos with our iPhones of pretty sunsets or clouds and then realize an hour later that we’ve caught a UFO up in the sky or at least that’s what happened to one GoshDarnBlog.com reader who wished to remain anonymous.
What’s going on here? Sure looks like a spaceship with some kind of light shining out of it when we take a closer look.
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This other pic from one of our readers isn’t bad either. The photographer saw the UFO in the sky while with their friends and they snapped this shot on their phone before it flew away.
The color this UFO gives off is eerie, but colorful AF.
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