BIOGRAPHY
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.
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.
