Citymouth

Citymouth

By Hunt Emerson (Knockabout)
ISBN: 0-86166-142-7

This slim collection of cartoons and strips is possibly the most innovative and surreal work that national treasure Hunt Emerson has ever produced. Surreal to the point of abstraction, these are purely visual statements and bon mots which run the gamut from slapstick to satire, shaggy dog story to barbed social commentary, and like all the great surrealist artists, these works aspire to instantaneous creation but in actuality have been crafted with extreme diligence and terrifying skill.

Somewhere strange creatures roam, little more than mouths on legs. In those cavernous maws are dwellings. Parks, villages, housing developments, even city-states. In mostly wordless displays Emerson examines society, progress and even the absurd nature of reality. He also quite clearly had vast amounts of mind-liberating fun, and so will you when you track down this pictorial delight.

© 2000 Hunt Emerson. All Rights Reserved