If I'm writing then it's in silence.ĭid you read comics as a kid and if so what was your favorite? I get three or four hundred pieces at a time, so it lasts a while.Īre there any rituals that you do before starting to draw?ĭo you listen to music while you draw and if so what genre? My pencil work is very rough, and I use whatever pencil is around.ĭo you do your coloring by hand or on the computer?Ī printing paper which has a pressed china clay surface. I draw with a Daler ' Dalon' brush, size 0, and Indian ink.ĭo you draw in pencil first and if so do you use a standard pencil or a mechanical one? Go have a look around at his Large Cow website and buy something from his shop. When he’s not drawing he runs a T’ ai Chi class and sings and plays guitar in the rock/blues band The Hound Dogs (Check out this video of them performing Money ).

Hunt lives in Birmingham with his partner Jane and their three cats. His comic strips have been translated into ten languages and the Centre Nationale de la Bande Dessinee et de l'Image has named him as one of the 75 European Masters of Cartooning of the 20 th Century. He also still draws ‘Firkin the Cat’ and he has been contributing to ‘The Beano’ (British children’s comic book that started way back in 1938) since 2002. Since 1996 Hunt has written and drawn the comic page ‘ Phenomenomix’ for Fortean Times, the leading monthly journal of unexplained phenomena. Throughout the 80’s and 90’s he published many books with Knockabout Comics (formed in 1979 by Tony and Carol Bennett) including 'The Big Book of Everything', 'Jazz Funnies', a personal adaptation of 'Lady Chatterley’s Lover', 'Hard to Swallow', 'Startling Planet', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Rapid Reflexes', 'Casanova's Last Stand', ' Pusspuss', 'Aliens Ate my Trousers' and ' Citymouth'. In 1981 he became the regular artist for Galaxy Publications, Firkin the Cat, a two-page comic that still runs in Fiesta magazine.

During this time he also began getting freelance illustration work and in 1979 he became a full time freelance cartoonist.

He soon launched his own title, Street Comix, published under the Ar-Zak Press label. While at the Arts Lab, Hunt was part of the group known as Ar-Z ak, publishing British underground comics and drawing his own strips. Crumb, Jay Lynch ( Cartoonist Survey #57 ), Rick Griffin and Gilbert Shelton He worked as a library assistant and mailman before ending up at Birmingham Arts Lab where he worked for six years doing layout, design and running the printing press. He became interested in the underground comics movement in the early 70’s after seeing work by R. Born in 1952, British cartoonist, Hunt Emerson has been drawing cartoons all of his life.

Aliens Ate My Trousers by Hunt Emerson