50-Odd Years of Big Noses
by Hunt Emerson
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.
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.
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!
Previously featured and unfunded:
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look and Support:
- Assassin Roommate books 2 & 3 – 11 Days to Go
- Runaway to the Stars by Jay Eaton – 12 Days to Go
- The Boys 20th Anniversary Graphic Novel Editions – 18 Days to Go
The Marvel Art of Iban Coello
The Marvel Art of Iban Coello
panish-born artist Iban Coello has presented his rendition of Marvel’s greatest heroes since breaking into the comics world. His dynamic work is visible in both interior and cover work for titles such as ?The Amazing Spider-Man, ?Venom, ?Deadpool & The Mercs for Money, Carnage, ??The X-Men, ? The Fantastic Four, and many more.
For the first time in his career, Iban’s work is collected into a hardcover collection featuring a span of works from prelims to inked pieces to color complete images in this must-have publication – ? The Marvel Art of Iban Coello.
This gorgeous hardcover book spans more than 320 pages of vibrant, full-color artwork, showcasing Iban’s dynamic illustrations, masterful storytelling, and breathtaking presentations of Marvel’s most beloved characters. From concept sketches to final covers, this collection offers an exclusive look at his creative process and the evolution of some of Marvel’s most iconic images.
Dead Air #1-3 90s College Radio Sci-Fi With A Soundtrack
What if one day every year you could talk to the dead?
Parenting – An SMBC comic collection
A collection of comics about parenting, compiled from over 20 years of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, and also from experience.
We’re raising funds to print a brand new book of compiled SMBC comics: Parenting – An SMBC Collection.
PLUS, you can get Zach’s upcoming illustrated middle grade novel Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home (as well as other goodies) by selecting your preferred tier during the crowdfunding campaign. Kickstarter buyers get a specially designed Sawyer Leebookplate, signed by Zach.
WOLVES OF A FEATHER
A Lovecraft-inspired crime story that will take you to the depths of otherworldly horror and leave you hollow and haunted…
When a simple heist takes a VERY wrong turn, it looks like the end of the world could be right around the corner…and our thieves are going to help usher it in, whether they want to or not.
Below are some sample pages from issue 1 of Wolves of a Feather, introducing our main characters and putting them into a deadly, horrific situation, straight out of a cosmic evil nightmare.
Wolves of a Feather is a dark, mature readers comic book, please enjoy responsibly.
Love is Simple #1 – A NSFW Mythological Comedy
From the Ringo winning team behind Smut, this 24 page comic follows Aphrodite’s identity crisis after she causes the Trojan War!
In Greek, there’s seven different words for love, in English, only one. What if that’s not a quirk of linguistics? What if Aphrodite changed the meaning of Love to suit her means?
Love is Simple is a 5-part comic miniseries from the creative team behind the Ringo Award winning comic SMUT! This is our retelling of Greek Mythology as a supernatural erotic comedy, focusing on Aphrodite’s identity crisis after she (totally accidentally) caused the Trojan War, her friendship with Persephone, and the relationship drama (and tons of sex) she causes by trying to force love to be less complicated. Think Lore Olympus meets Sex Criminals.
In a contest between Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena, Paris was bribed by all three to judge them the most beautiful. Ultimately, he went with Aphrodite’s promise to bed the most beautiful woman in the world and, in doing so, triggered the Trojan War. Aphrodite would later describe kidnapping Helen of Troy as “a bit of a whoopsie.”
Struggling to reconcile her role as the Goddess of Love and her actions that led to mass slaughter, Aphrodite asks to her friend Persephone to help her get through this extraodinarly difficult time. After attempting to talk it out (and drinking a LOT of wine), Aphrodite decides that Love needs to be simple. No more jealousy, no more modesty, no more strife.
Welcome to the first issue of the greatest myth never told! Sex, war, yearning, and pomegranates run wild in this fun, sexy romp of a comic made by the best team in the game! This is Love is Simple!
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The Wonderverse Saga – Vol 2 Collector Edition. (Human Made)
Vol 2 of Rachta’s top-selling original manga, funded in less than an hour! Follow Phynnix’s fight in a world dominated by superheroes.
Following the success of “The Wonderverse Saga” Volume 1, our team has been diligently continuing the story of Phynnix’s fight against the domineering powers of the superheroes. Ratchta’s epic story continues the dark tale of Phynnix, a ‘subhuman’ born in an oppressive world where ‘superhumans’ born with special powers rule with an iron fist.
We acted on feedback we received from Volume 1 and changed the interior paper to a matte texture. This will better present the story with image clarity and a smoother tactile feel. In addition, we will mail all books directly from Singapore to utilize the reliable postal service and handling service.
Rachta’s 1st Edition printing of “The Wonderverse Saga” Volume 2, is a hardcover perfect-bound manga with over 100 meticulously hand-drawn pages of gripping adventures. Each of the 250 Collector’s Editions comes uniquely numbered # of 250. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever.
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Assassin Roommate books 2 & 3
Volumes 2 & 3 of Monica Gallagher’s Assassin Roommate!
Assassin Roommate is a comic about an unlikely pair of roommates who maybe experience love, arguments, and murdery things together.
Volume 2:
When you love someone and set them free, then crush on someone else in their absence because the person you loved can never return but then they DO … it’s complicated.
After sacrificing Kurt in order to save his life, Mags has moved on and is completely over him. Just kidding, now she’s hyper-fixating on avoiding love while investigating the agency that had kidnapped her. But once you keep poking that bear, eventually that bear is going to notice. Can she handle the repercussions of her actions? Oh and also her growing feelings for Jason?? In the meantime, Mags starts to delve deep into her family history, trying to unravel the complicated way she was raised. Jamie explores her own frought past via reconnecting with an old flame, who happens to be Mags’s new boss.
It goes without saying (I’m totally saying it anyway) that when you’re an assassin, you’re bound to have romance issues.
Volume 3:
Mags is moving up and away from her old life, now that she’s finally where she belongs as the next generation of family leadership at DAGDA. But her chosen family of Jamie, Kurt and Jason strongly disagree she’s there willingly, and are ready to risk any amount of pummeling while wearing fancy clothes in order to restore the Mags they knew.
But memories both past and present can be tricky to restore. What if the past you knew was untrue? Or the present is too murky to decipher? Or you’re still having issues remembering your ex-boyfriend now that your ex-ex-boyfriend is back and working on himself in such a sexy way??
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Snow Paw Vol 1: 19th Century Scottish Female Werewolf Fantasy
Upon discovering her werewolf lineage, a young woman’s eyes are opened to the existence of Supernatural beings & creatures of Fantasy!
Cirilla (Cirray) MacKinlay is a strong-willed farm girl, born and raised in the Scottish Highlands during the 19th century, who dreams about a life of adventure. Upon discovering her Pureblood Monoki werewolf lineage, Cirray’s eyes are opened for the first time to the existence of Supernatural beings and creatures of Fantasy. With the aid of Silver Mane, a fellow Pureblood Monoki, Cirray must find her place in the world while training to master her lycanthropy in order to battle the Dark Covenant of the European region, led by the malevolent Mongrel Monoki, Grim Fang.
Cirray MacKinlay is Snow Paw!
In 19th-century Scotland, a fierce heroine with an adventurous spirit nearly gives into the social expectations of her time. Cirilla (Cirray) MacKinlay is unwillingly betrothed to the son of a Scottish nobleman to save her family farm from poverty. However, a trite fairy-tale ending is not to be as her family farm is attacked by a pack of werewolves, awakening the beast within revealing her werewolf lineage.
Welcome to the Snow Paw Volume 1: 19th Century Scottish Female Werewolf Fantasy Kickstarter campaign! My name is Robert A. Multari and I’m the creator/writer of Night Wolf and Snow Paw.
It has been my dream since I was a kid, struggling with Attention Deficit Disorder and Dyslexia, to be a comic book creator because comic books have helped me to overcome my learning disabilities. I’ve had the pleasure of self-publishing Night Wolf #1-11 and Snow Paw #1-4, with the help of my past Kickstarter backers, who I refer to as my Wolf Pack.
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Megaton Man: Microbus
The collected Megaton Man Weekly Serials (1996-2001) featuring the complete Wandering Microbus Saga – REMASTERED!
America’s Man of Molecules falls in with a roving band of misfits including Gower Goose, Paul Nabisco, X-Ray Boy, Yarn Man, Kozmik Kat, the Phantom Jungle Girl, and Cowboy Gorilla in a vintage hippie van as they encounter Forbidden Frankenstein, the Partyers from Mars, Slagg Heep, Mooncat, Unleash, and Bad Guy at the Comic Book Convention on the Edge of Forever!
The complete Wandering Microbus Saga by Don Simpson, collected for the first time in one definitive edition, lovingly scanned, restored, and remastered from the original artwork by the cartoonist!
Originally presented as The Megaton Man Weekly serial online (1996-2001), part of which ran as a 2-page back-up feature in Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon #52-#87 and in Megaton Man: Hardcopy#1 and #2 and Megaton Man: Bombshell #1 (all from Image Comics).
This Fiasco Books edition will include rare process art, alternate pages, unpublished rarities, and more!
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REAL LIFE COMIX: Only in New York
51 tales of true NY stories
Real Life Comix, Only in New York (Hardcover, 216 pgs.) features 51 short stories in a sprawling, high-voltage, memoir, graphic novel anthology celebrating the grit, glory, absurdity and heart of life in New York City.
Co-edited by veteran comix creators Dean Haspiel and Doug Latino, this vibrant collection brings together a wildly eclectic mix of legendary and emerging voices, including New Yorker cartoonists, MAD contributors, and American Splendor collaborators. Storytellers hail from across comix, comics, graphic novels, literature, art, film, and music, each offering their own take on the city that never sleeps–humorous, heartbreaking, surreal or unmistakably true–capturing the everyday chaos and accidental poetry of New York life.
The anthology features work from cultural luminaries and underground icons alike, including Roz Chast, David Collier, Joe Dator, Gary Dumm, Liana Finck, Bob Fingerman, Drew Friedman, Danny Hellman, Ben Katchor, Gideon Kendall, Keith Knight, Peter Kuper, Barbara Willy Mendes, Rachelle Meyer, Josh Neufeld, Ann Nocenti, Rick Parker, R. Sikoryak, Noah Van Sciver, Doug Latino, Julia Wertz, Ron Wimberly, Jonathan Ames, Karl Stevens, Onur Tukel, Spencer Alexander, Wesley Allsbrook, Dieu Sam B., Jonathan Baylis, Nick Bertozzi, Wendy Blake, C. Cassano, Cecil Castellucci, Ezra Cumbo, Vito Delsante, Jen Ferguson, Dean Haspiel, Charles Fetherolf, Christopher Gomez, Ben Granoff, James Greene, Sarah Lee Grillo, Jennifer Hayden, Ariel Kahtan, Whitney Matheson, Jared Miller, Moby, Chris Miskiewicz, Eli Neugboren, Ayoko Nito, Pat Palermo, Joan Reilly, Peter Rostovsky, Gil Roth, Rani Som, JG Thirlwell, Cynthia Von Buhler, Sean Von Gorman, Steve Walker, Owen Brozman, Carol Tyler, and Tony Wolf–each conveying a singular voice and style within the city’s ever-evolving mythology.
The book features a striking cover by acclaimed sibling illustrators Maria and Peter Hoey, a preface by Columbia University’s Karen Green and a foreword and two illustrated contributions by the one and only Drew Friedman.
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CHINGONA
CHINGONA (noun) \ching-?g?-nä\ : a badass Latina woman who embodies unapologetic strength, resilience, and fierce empowerment.
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That’s a wrap for this week.
Next week, we will return with new projects to spotlight. Also, if you are crowdfunding a project and would like to be put in the Korner, drop us a line at chad@comic-watch.com, and we will take a look when we put together next week’s post