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Hunt Emerson, Like a Rat in a Coconut -

Artist: Hunt Emerson (All)

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Hunt Emerson, Like a Rat in a Coconut - Comic Art

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Title:	Hunt Emerson, Like a Rat in a Coconut -
Artist:	Hunt Emerson (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	78
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	8/13/2024
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Hunt Emerson was never as famous as his contemporary underground cartoonists, probably because he was based in England, but he was nonetheless admired fiercely by his American colleagues. His style—even his lettering—is truly unique. “Large Cow Comix” (1979) was the inside back cover to Animal Bite Comix.

"His earliest strips in the 1970s appeared in such British small press comics as Graphixus, Brainstorm Comix, Moon Comix, Yikes, Animal Bite Comix, No Ducks, Phobos, Streetcomix, Free Comix, Warrior and Fish.

A trip to the US put Emerson in touch with the underground comix publisher Rip Off Press, which published his Thunderdogs title; while Don and Maggie Thompson included him in their mini-comic series, for which he created Calculus Cat. Emerson's art also appeared in the US underground/alternative anthologies Commies from Mars and Eclipse Monthly. Dogman, and Large Cow Comix (a five issue series with separate subtitles) were all Emerson work cover to cover, but it was Knockabout Comics, a British comic book-sized, and later album-sized, anthology that featured some of Emerson's most notable strips, including the characters Alan Rabbit, Calculus Cat, Max Zillion & Alto Ego, Pusspuss, Momo and Fuzi, Charlie Chirp, plus the one-shot stories "Cakes And Bricks," "The Dentist," and "Mouth City". The latter two stories spawned a series called Citymouth, and later a collected volume."

For fans of ska, Hunt is well-known as the designer of the "Beat Girl" logo for the English Beat.

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Duke Fleed aka #1 Groo Fan
Member Since 2013

Posted on 8/13/2024

You had me at Coconut!

Rick W
Member Since 2017

Posted on 8/13/2024

Off the wall art that deserves to be on the wall.

Congrats!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/13/2024

The cartooning harkens back to the great tradition of Herriman with imaginative surreal settings that makes it look out of any timeline!

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