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Hermes Press
Hermes Press is an American publisher of art books, comic books, and comic book reprints. The company was founded in 2000 and is best known for their archival reprints of classic comic book and strip series and art books. History Hermes Press was formed in 2000 by Daniel Herman (publisher), Daniel Herman. It is located in New Castle, Pennsylvania, New Castle, Pennsylvania. In its first years of operation it published a limited amount of special-interest books: ''Gil Kane: Art of the Comics'', written by Herman (2001); Gil Kane: Art and Interviews" (2002); "Bill Sienkiewicz: Precursor" (2002); "Works of Art: Joe Chiodo" (2003). From there Herman focused on comic strip series reprints (Star Hawks, Buck Rogers, The Phantom, et al.), and later comic book series reprints and newly commissioned comic book adaptations and other original works. In 2009 Hermes Press entered into an agreement with Dan Curtis Productions to reprint the Gold Key comic of ''Dark Shadows'', signifying Hermes's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hermes (; grc-gre, wikt:Ἑρμῆς, Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology. Hermes is considered the herald of the gods. He is also considered the protector of human heralds, travellers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine, aided by his winged sandals. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide"—a conductor of souls into the Underworld, afterlife. In myth, Hermes functions as the emissary and messenger of the gods, and is often presented as the son of Zeus and Maia, the Pleiades (Greek mythology), Pleiad. Hermes is regarded as "the divine trickster," about which the ''Homeric Hymn, Homeric Hymn to Hermes'' offers the most well-known account. His attributes and symbols include the herma, the rooster, the tortoise, wallet, satchel or pouch, talaria (winged sandals), and winged helmet or simple petasos, as well as the palm tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Toth
Alexander Toth (June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006) was an American cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but he is also known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included ''Super Friends'', ''Fantastic Four (1967 TV series), Fantastic Four'', ''Space Ghost (TV series), Space Ghost'', ''Sealab 2020'', ''The Herculoids'' and ''Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, Birdman''. Toth's work has been resurrected in the late-night, adult-themed spin-offs on Cartoon Network’s late night sister channel Adult Swim: ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'', ''Sealab 2021'' and ''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law''. He was inducted into the comic book industry's List of Harvey Award winners#The Jack Kirby Hall of Fame, Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990. Biography Early life and career Alex Toth was born in 1928 to immigrants from Hungary, who were part of the Slovak minority in Hungary. His father w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Buscema
John Buscema (; ; born Giovanni Natale Buscema, December 11, 1927 – January 10, 2002)Social Security Death Index for Buscema, John N., Social Security Number 108-20-9641. was an American comic book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major popular culture, pop-culture Conglomerate (company), conglomerate. His younger brother Sal Buscema is also a comic book artist. Buscema is best known for his run on the series ''The Avengers (comic book), The Avengers'' and ''The Silver Surfer (comic book), Silver Surfer'', and for over 200 stories featuring the sword-and-sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. In addition, he penciller, pencilled at least one issue of nearly every major Marvel title, including long runs on two of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
