(via Paul Gravett): The history of Foyles, London’s famous bookshop and 2012 Bookseller of the Year, the location of many comic-related events down the years, has been illustrated by a stellar cast of graphic novel artists including Bryan Talbot, Hunt… Read More ›
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Ireland’s Cootehill International Cartoon Festival lines up UK guests
Via Bloghorn: The Cootehill International Cartoon Festival takes place in County Cavan, Ireland, over the weekend of 14-15th September and will feature workshops, exhibitions and live drawing, and guests such as John Berkeley, Hunt Emerson, Tim Leatherbarrow and Graeme Keyes…. Read More ›
Wandering the Lakes – with Hunt Emerson
The Wordsworth Trust, in Grasmere, Cumbria, will be hosting the Hunt Emerson: Original works from The Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein exhibition between 4th October to 3rd November. The exhibition links with other exhibitions and comic events surrounding the first Lakes… Read More ›
Hunt Emerson tackles some Myth Conceptions
Hunt Emerson continues to create numerous cartoons for a wide variety of publications and has just launched a new website, www.huntemerson.com, replacing his older one (although it’s still live) largecow.com. Hunt’s work features in the new Myth Conceptions, a collection… Read More ›
Cartoonists assemble in Herne Bay to celebrate the life of Dadaist Marcel DuChamp
Following Ralph Steadman’s lead, the cream of Britain’s cartoonists and illustrators will be in Herne Bay on Saturday 3rd August to celebrate the Marcel Duchamp Centenary Festival. Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor and writer whose work is associated… Read More ›
Cooking up a treat: Busiek, Hine, Lloyd and Emerson join Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up
Kendal’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival has revealed more of the writers and artists who will be taking part in the event later this year. The festival, which will run from 18-20 October 2013 in Kendal in Cumbria, now has… Read More ›
Hunt Emerson, Paul Rainey in latest Self Publisher Magazine
Self Publisher! Magazine #61 might be a US-based digital title but with the huge number of British creators doing their own thing it’s no wonder quite a few feature in the free downloadable magazine. British talents interviewed this issue are… Read More ›
It’s The Dandy Show! Final print issue to be celebrated at London Mart
With the final print edition of The Dandy comic imminent – a 100-page special that includes a facsimile of the first issue – the London Comic Mart is marking its transition to a digital format on Sunday 2nd December by… Read More ›
In Review: Dante’s Inferno by Hunt Emerson
Out: Now Publisher: Knockabout The Book: Hunt Emerson, the dazzlingly talented cartoonist, tackles the biggest literary name of them all: Dante. Emerson’s Inferno delights on many levels: as an ingenious translation of classic verse; an effortlessly readable introduction to a… Read More ›
Hunt Emerson invades the iPad as Only He Can
According to comics historian Paul Gravett’s 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die Hunt Emerson is “Britain’s greatest underground cartoonist”. According to the The Comics Journal his mind “works on a level untouched by most humans”. According to the… Read More ›