San Diego Comic-Con 2019 Recap

Wow! This year at Comic-Con we had an explosion of activity! From our always awesome panel to our guests signing at our booth, there was rarely a moment of quiet at Hermes Press this year...which is how we like it! Below are some of the candid (and not-so-candid) pictures of what we got up to at SDCC this year!

If you weren't able to get Mother Goth Rhymes (the limited edition) at the show, we have some copies left over for purchase on our site!

A shot of our booth before the show opened! We had a LOT of cool stuff!

Kaz (Mother Goth Rhymes) signing her new book! You can see Stabby the Unicorn in the background!

A selfie of Kaz (Mother Goth Rhymes), Sabrina (HP's Managing Editor), and Trina Robbins (Babes in Arms)!

Publisher Dan Herman, Kaz, Stan Yan, and Trina Robbins after their successful panel premiering Kaz's new book!

Somehow the crew got invited to SDCC's 50th anniversary party! We were feelin' pretty fancy that night.

The cake from the SDCC 50th anniversary party!

Author and awesome lady Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson (DC Comics Before Superman) hamming it up for the camera with Sabrina!

We couldn't get everyone in at the same time, so this is the Hermes Press SDCC Family Photo Part 1!

We couldn't get everyone in at the same time, so this is the Hermes Press SDCC Family Photo Part 2!

Help us help you! Announcing: How to Alienate Friends & Avoid People: The Lazy Goth Method

Happy Father's Day from your favorite publishing company!

Happy Father's Day from your favorite publishing company! (Hi dad! Happy Father's Day- love Sabrina)

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Coming soon to Hermes Press: Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics and a Passion for Fashion by Trina Robbins!

Coming soon to Hermes Press: Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics and A Passion for Fashion

Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics and A Passion for Fashion Hermes Press is coming to slay the fashion industry- with some HERstory! Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics and A Passion for Fashion explores the history behind Mopsy and her creator Gladys Parker! This beautiful book will also provide a rarely seen collection of Mopsy stories and many of Parker’s earlier strips. Cartoonist Gladys Parker was unique in comics. As with Frida Kahlo, it was impossible to tell where her art left off and its creator began. Parker mixed fashion and comics and created classic characters that mimicked her sense of fashion. In fact, Parker was an exact double for her ink-and-paper creation, Mopsy. Tarpe Mills and Dale Messick both dressed to kill and included paper dolls featuring their heroines’ chic 1940s wardrobes. Tarpe Mills and Lily Renee were fashion models before they drew comics. But only Gladys Parker (and one other)* was a fashion designer with a successful line of clothing while at the same time drawing an equally successful comic strip. Parker’s dresses bearing the Gladys Parker label were sold at her own New York shop and at high-end department stores across the country – and she also found the time to costume Hollywood movies and the beauties that starred in them!  Who better to chronicle the story of Gladys Parker than comics herstorian Trina Robbins, who in the 1960s designed clothes for hippies and rock stars out of her East Village boutique, while drawing underground comix? ISBN:  978-1-61345-181-6 Start Shopping Check out our other title by Trina Robbins!

Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson Presents at The Escapist

Pictured: Jessica Balboni (co-mgr. of Escapist); Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, Colin Epstein, and Ben Rosenthal

Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson presenting on DC Comics Before Superman

Author Spotlight: Mother Goth!

(photo credit http://www.anginet.com, Anginet Page)

Mother Goth was busy preparing for her favorite night of the year, but we managed to catch her for a few brief questions...

What's your inspirations for some of your spooky rhymes?
All my poems are autobiographical. Mary Had a Little Beast? Me. The decapitated shepherdess in Little Bo Dead? Also me. The murderous unicorn in If You’re Stabby and You Know It? In truth, Stabby was one of my dearly departed husbands, but as they say, write about what you know… or who you kill. I’ll leave it to my dear readers to determine which is which.
 
Who is your favorite author?
Alas, poor Edgar. How I loved him. It was my crow that finally did him in. A word to the wise—crows do not like being mistaken for ravens.   
 
What is your favorite part of being an artist? 
Tracing around the bodies.
 
Where do you like to create your art? 
Wakes. The reference is so very good. 
 
What music (if any?) do you like to listen to while you work on your Rhymes? 
A nice upbeat requiem mass or howls of the tortured.
 
What's your favorite kind of bat?
The Louisville Slugger. Handy when one is fresh out of knives and arsenic.
 
What's your favorite part of Halloween?
The convenience of leaving the skeletons out on the lawn.
 
How will you be spending your Halloween? 
In the cemetery, digging up a date.
 
Favorite spooky movie?
My home movies. Or “evidence” as the prosecuting lawyers call it. 

Her book Mother Goth Rhymes is coming late Summer 2019; pre-order your copy today!

Halloween sale! Get 25% off until Wednesday!

It's almost here! (and that menas the sale is almost over!) 25% off with this code SPOOKY2018 Shop Now Halloween is coming! We're getting spoOoOoOoOky! We've got plenty of treats for curious readers here! Check out our titles! Start Shopping 25% off with this code SPOOKY2018 Shop Now And of course our spookiest pre-order ever! Mother Goth Rhymes, coming Summer 2019! And don't forget to support our KICKSTARTER! (Unfortunately the sale does not apply) Copyright © 2018 Hermes Press, All rights reserved.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Don Newton's Phantom: Coming SOON!

The advances are in! Coming soon: Don Newton's Phantom!

It's almost here! Our advances arrived and here are some shots of the interior! Video promo to come, and then the books will arrive shortly after. Pre-order yours today! 10% off with this code ORDER2018 Shop Now Start Shopping And check out some of our other books- we've got some neat stuff in recently!

Our advances are in! Phantom Sundays V5 and Phantom Dailies V14!

Our advances are in! Phantom Sundays V5 and Phantom Dailies V14! Publisher Dan Herman shows off advance copies of The Phantom Dailies Volume 14 and The Phantom Sundays Volume 5! Check out some of our recently arrived titles while you wait for Phantom Dailies 14 and Phantom Sundays 5 to arrive! Start Shopping Copyright © 2018 Hermes Press, All rights reserved.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Check out our promo of DC Comics Before Superman!

Check out our promo of DC Comics Before Superman! Publisher Dan Herman shows off DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics! Get the limited edition variant today! Signed by Jim Steranko! Start Shopping Copyright © 2018 Hermes Press, All rights reserved.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.