Hunt Emerson

In 2016, he designed the Walsall Silver Thread Tapestries.

Emerson drew and created "Ratz" for The Beano, a strip about mean rats in a sewer. In 2002–2007, he drew Little Plum for that comic. In March 2009, he revived the "Fred's Bed" strip.

Square-bound books written by others, such as You Are Maggie Thatcher and Hard To Swallow, showcase Emerson strips and illustrations throughout. In Outrageous Tales From the Old Testament he tackled a version of the Book of Leviticus written by Alan Moore, and in The Seven Deadly Sins, depicted "Envy". For the DC Comics imprint Factoid Books, in the 1990s, he did biographical comics on everything from Erich von Stroheim to Prince Charles and Princess Diana. These appeared in The Big Book Of series. For dozens of issues of the British underground Brain Damage, he created "Arsover Tit".

He drew the cover design for the Terry McCann's 1975 album Stand Back It's Rent-a-Crowd. He designed the 'Beat Girl' icon for Birmingham band The Beat. and painted a mural of the band, which was used as cover art for the band's second album Wha'ppen?.

Emerson has been acclaimed as one of the 75 European Masters of Cartooning of the 20th Century by the Centre Nationale de la Bande Dessinee et de l'Image, and has won many other international awards.

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

Hunt Emerson (born 1952) is a cartoonist living and working in Birmingham, England. He was closely involved with the Birmingham Arts Lab of the mid-to-late 1970s, and with the British underground comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s. His many comic strips and graphic novels have been translated into numerous languages.