Hector Plasm is the name of a comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 character, created by Benito Cereno

Benito Cereno (writer)

Benito Cereno is an American comic book writer. He is best known as the writer and co-creator of 2004's Tales From the Bully Pulpit and Hector Plasm. His work first appeared as strips in early issues of Robert Kirkman's comic book Invincible...

 (writer) and Nate Bellegarde (artist). The duo had started out writing back-up stories in Invincible

Invincible (comics)

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 for Image comics

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Hector Plasm is a benandanti

Benandanti

The Benandanti were an agrarian fertility cult in the Friuli district of Northern Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries. Between 1575 and 1675, the Benandanti were tried as heretics or witches under the Roman Inquisition, and their beliefs assimilated to Satanism...

 who roams the earth in the hope of helping ghosts, humans, and demons alike to live in harmony with each other. The comic itself has a similar sort of formula as Hellboy

Hellboy

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by taking myths and legends from various places around the globe and putting them into a modern setting. Unlike Hellboy, however, Hector Plasm strives to be as faithful as possible to the myths presented within the text.

"Hector came about as a result of Nate Bellegarde's and my desire to show people we could do something other than what they had seen from us before... So we put together a book that contained lots of elements we enjoyed - ghost stories, international folklore, dudes cutting things with swords, classical mythology, all of that. So we threw it all together with a feel of southern Gothic folk music and sea shanties, and out came Hector."
-Benito Sereno, SilverBulletComics.com interview.
Hector's world is a place where spirits, witches, and the like are normal and he deals with them in a way that's as natural as driving to work. It's his attitude that makes Hector's stories so accessible.

"Even ghosts tell stories... and the name whispered in hushed tones over the dying embers of campfires past is that of the drifter, the con man, the shaman, the witch doctor, the exorcist... HECTOR PLASM."
(Description of Hector Plasm: De Mortuis)

Publications

Hector Plasm stories have been published by Image Comics, most notably in Hector Plasm: De Mortuis, a one-shot comic book compilation of all previous Hector Plasm stories.

Hector Plasm stories have been included in Invincible, Western Tales of Terror, and Popgun Vol. 1.

Hector Plasm: Totentanz is a new one-shot that came out October 2009 and bears a Halloween theme. It is, like the first comic book, made up of short stories.

External links

• http://invincible.110mb.com/Hector/Plasm.htm - The Official Hector Plasm Website
• http://www.fetorpse.org/ - Benito Cereno and Nate Bellegarde's Official Site