Hermes Press is gearing up for a more extensive publishing schedule, with around 35 books per year planned, according to CEO Dan Herman. Among them are new comic collections, including the just-announced Neil the Horse, comic strip collections, and original work.
Neil the Horse collects the fifteen-issue series by Katherine Collins (formerly Arn Saba), published by Aardvark-Vanaheim and later by Renegade Press in the 1980s. Two editions will be released later this year, both with the comics, a historical essay by Trina Robbins, and documentary material, in color and b/w. The regular 320-page 8.5"x11" hardcover will retail for $60. A special signed limited edition with 32 additional pages and a signed tipped-in plate will retail for $95.
Hermes plans other comic collections, including a second volume of Brenda Starr: The Complete Pre-Code Collection ("because everybody likes that book," Herman said), and a collection of the non-Toth Zorro issues (Hermes has already released a collection of the Alex Toth Dell Zorro issues).
Comic strip collections will include additional Johnny Hazard volumes ("because they’ve been so well received," Herman said) and a new Buck Rogers collection. "So many people wanted the Murphy Anderson Buck Rogers, we’re doing a special Murphy Anderson-only Buck Rogers art book," Herman said. Hermes will also collect the Terry and the Pirates strips by George Wunder (who took over after Milton Caniff left), and the Smokey Stover strip by Bill Holman, which ran for 38 years.
Herman described plans for a new Phantom volume (Hermes has previously collected both newspaper strips and comics, see "Hermes to Publish Silver Age 'Phantom' Comics"). "We’re also doing a Phantom book which focuses on the art of the Phantom, which will have Ray Moore originals, it’ll have original art from everybody including full size, 100 percent full size dailies, which will have gate folds. It’ll have art from the Charltons, from everything that’s ever been done. It’ll be all the original art and all the artists."
In original material, a second Buck Rogers miniseries with Howard Chaykin (the first issue of the first series was available at Comic-Con, see "Chaykin’s 'Buck Rogers' Scheduled") is planned for 2014.
Hermes has taken over publication of Rob Worley’s Scratch9, previously published by Ape Entertainment (see "'Scratch9'"), and will release a collection of Scratch9 1-4 and Cat Tails 1 & 2. New material may be published either as an original graphic novel, or as four separate issues first to be collected later.
And in the art book category, Hermes will collect famed poster artist Karl Lundgren’s rock and roll concert posters, featuring many of the most popular bands of the 60s, 70s and beyond, in two editions, a regular hardcover edition and a signed and limited hardcover.
Plus Art Books, Originals
Posted by ICv2 on July 30, 2013 @ 5:52 pm CT
MORE NEWS
Ahead of Movie Slated for 2025 Release
May 17, 2024
A Minecraft movie is set for release in April 2025.
Into NA Markets
May 17, 2024
Portal Games will release Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island - Collector's Edition, a special edition of the classic board game, into North American markets.
MORE COMICS
Longtime Comic Artist Passes Away at 94
May 17, 2024
Longtime comic artist Don Perlin, who worked in the field from the late 1940s to the late 1990s, passed away on Tuesday, May 14. He was 94.
2024 Eisner Nominees Announced
May 16, 2024
Comic-Con has announced the nominations for the 2024 Eisner Awards, and for the second consecutive year, they include writer Rob Salkowitz, who writes a regular column for ICv2.