Britain’s greatest underground cartoonist Hunt Emerson has been creating wild and wonderful comics for more than 50 frantic years, and now you can support the crowdfunding campaign to bring us a stonking 220-page celebration of his amazing career.
Very definitely one for “Mature Audiences”, Hunt Emerson‘s 50-Odd Years of Big Noses, seeking support over on Zoop, contains the untold and often hilarious stories behind those five decades of surreal strips, as told by Hunt himself.
Illustrated throughout with cartoons and pages from obscure corners of Hunt’s archive, and stuffed full of irreverent chat between the maestro of mirth and journalist Rory Milne, 50-odd Years of Big Noses has pathos and laughs by turn.
There are plenty of add ons on offer as part of the campaign, including art prints and original art.
Hunt Emerson, born in 1952, is a cartoonist living and working in Birmingham, England. He was closely involved with the Birmingham Arts Lab of the mid-to-late 1970s, and with the British underground comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Rip Off Press published his Thunderdogs title; while Don and Maggie Thompson included him in their mini-comic series, for which he created Calculus Cat. Hunt’s art also appeared in the American underground/alternative anthologies Commies from Mars and Eclipse Monthly.
His graphic novels Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Casanova’s Last Stand and other adaptations of classic novels and tales have been sold in numerous countries, and translated into several different languages. For over 30 years, his strips and illustrations have graced the pages of Fortean Times, the magazine of occult and unexplained phenomena, while his pornographically humorous Firkin the Cat (written by Tym Manley) has appeared in hundreds of Fiesta magazines. Oh, and let’s not forget his eye catching work beyond comics, too, creating posters and album covers, for example.
Journey back to Hunt’s heady Seventies, relive his prolific Eighties, blush at his smut-filled Nineties, marvel at his eclectic 2000s, wince at his cash-strapped 2010s, and celebrate him reaching today with work still on the books and his faculties somehow still intact!
• Check out Hunt Emerson‘s 50-Odd Years of Big Noses here on Zoop | For Mature Audiences
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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