Having graduated from Otis College of Art and Design and Whittier College, Oklahoma native Nick Hermes did work in a variety of art fields before devoting himself to oil painting. His work often combines comic themes with traditional techniques. After 12 years with Joe Wade Fine Art in Santa Fe, Nick splits his time between painting, spending time with his wife and family, and writing/drawing the comic book The Black-Jack Demon.
"A timely, engrossing SF tale with an environmental theme and striking art" that "offers readers just as many reasons to return for the sequel." -Kirkus Reviews
Story by Charles J. Martin, Adrian Morales, Robert Holman, & John Eric Osborn
Art by John Eric Osborn, Chloe Eliman, Jonathan Koelsch, and Nick Hermes
A scientist's lifetime mission becomes a global movement to balance environmental needs with technology and the economy. As climate change creates a cascade of disasters, her movement becomes governmental policy in nations around the world.
In a far future, that movement has created a utopia where the world is in perfect balance, but corruption is seeping in.
Even further into the future, civilisation has collapsed.
We Promised Utopia is a story told over thousands connecting clues on how one woman's obsession created a perfect world, why it failed, and how a small band of survivors might just create it again.
By Nick Hermes
Years have passed since Silas dispatched of the demon and he returns to his family mine to unearth the secrets within.
By Nick Hermes
The third issue of Nick Hermes' genre-breaking Western The Black-Jack Demon finds Silas' ability to enact his revenge in doubt as he is in the hands of the mysterious killer. As they near the Pacific Ocean, a plan begins to form in the young man's mind while the mounting weight of death surrounds him.
By Nick Hermes
Fresh from an encounter with the the Black-Jack Demon, a now solitary Silas tracks the stranger through settlements in the shadow of the eastern Rockies.
By Nick Hermes
A boy crosses the American Old West in search of the stranger that brutally murdered his father after destroying their family mine. Bent on revenge, the young man soon realizes that the killer he is chasing is something much, much darker.
"A timely, engrossing SF tale with an environmental theme and striking art" that "offers readers just as many reasons to return for the sequel." -Kirkus Reviews
Story by Charles J. Martin, Adrian Morales, Robert Holman, & John Eric Osborn
Art by John Eric Osborn, Chloe Eliman, Jonathan Koelsch, and Nick Hermes
A scientist's lifetime mission becomes a global movement to balance environmental needs with technology and the economy. As climate change creates a cascade of disasters, her movement becomes governmental policy in nations around the world.
In a far future, that movement has created a utopia where the world is in perfect balance, but corruption is seeping in.
Even further into the future, civilisation has collapsed.
We Promised Utopia is a story told over thousands connecting clues on how one woman's obsession created a perfect world, why it failed, and how a small band of survivors might just create it again.