Yep! Britain’s greatest underground cartoonist Hunt Emerson has been creating wild and wonderful comics for more than 50 frantic years.
Hunt Emerson‘s 50-Odd Years of Big Noses 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.
So 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!
*For Mature Audiences*
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Digital Copy
Get a PDF of the book, 220 pages
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Physical copy of the book. 220 pages, 21cm x 30cm (A4 - 8.27" x 11.81")
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Signed Hardcover
Physical copy of the book, with a bookplate signed by Hunt Emerson
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THE MYSTERY REWARD!
Something special you can add to your cart! A small piece of signed original art in a sealed envelop...
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Hardcover + Art Print BUNDLE
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5 Copies of the hardcover at a wholesale price, all copies come with a signed bookplate.
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Art Print 1 - Signed
20cm x 22cm colour print "Gully Bull & Cephalopod" signed by Hunt Emerson!
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21cm x 30cm colour print "Mr. Spoonbiscuit as Hamlet" signed by Hunt Emerson!
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21cm x 30cm colour print "Winged Swinger" signed by Hunt Emerson!
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Commission
21cm x 30cm original finished B&W drawing by Hunt Emerson of the character of your choice. Please in...
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"Firkin" 2 page strip, 30cm x 42cm. WARNING sexual satire!
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Original Art Illustration 1
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In 2023, journalist/writer Rory Milne contacted me to ask if I was aware that it was 50 years since my first comic strip (of sorts) appeared in print, and suggested we do an interview. I agreed, and we had a 90 minute phone chat, which barely got us started. So we went on to have 5 more long chats, Rory transcribed them, and by this time we decided we were possibly looking at a book. I began designing and laying out the book - at that time tentatively titled “50 Years Underground”. Well, I was doing this work in my downtime, so 50 years have now become 50-plus years.
Our phone calls covered a lot of ground, from my earliest attempts at comix, through many years and many pages, and seemed to involve a lot of laughing. I'm including as much illustration as I can, using comix and illustrations that have not been widely seen, and the book is now pushing 220+ pages.
Hunt Emerson is one of Britain's favourite comics artists, whose distinctive drawing style and approach to visual humour are widely recognised and enjoyed. He has been writing and drawing his iconoclastic comics since the 1970s, and has worked extensively as an illustrator and designer since then, too. He has worked for many major book and magazine publishers, and has published around 30 comic books and albums, mostly with Knockabout Comics of London - the latest being his hilarious reworking of Dante's Inferno. Hunt has worked in advertising, and in the music industry, creating distinctive graphics and logos for The Beat, Ranking Roger, Bemis, The Jazz Butcher, Big Jay McNeely and several others.
Hunt also teaches in schools and colleges and for several years was a lead facilitator in International Comic Art Talent promotion for Hi8us, a sister company to Maverick Television. He works with charitable organisations, libraries and community organisations producing comics spotlighting issues such as children's rights, drug abuse, homelessness, safe sex and the importance of bedtime stories to the very young. In 2009/10 Hunt was recruited by publisher Well Told Story in Nairobi, Kenya, as a consultant to help establish SHUJAAZ, a free comic for Kenyan youth which now has distribution of a million per month and has received Kenya's first Emmy Award.
Hunt has had many exhibitions, both solo and in groups, and received several comics industry awards, the most notable being his inclusion as one of 75 "Masters of European Comic Art" by the prestigious Centre Nationale de la Bande Dessineé in Angoulême, France.
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