Our very special guest today is Hunt Emerson. Hunt will be familiar to most of you as the resident cartoonist of Fortean Times and if you have kids you might also be familiar with his work in perhaps the world’s greatest comic, the Beano, where he has written and illustrated a number of comic strips including Ratz (his own creation), Little Plumb and several poems including works by Edward Lear and Shelley.
A selected archive of his work can be found on his website http://largecow.com/ along with a much more detailed and exciting biography than I have space for here.
So, Hunt Emerson, here are your 5 Questions on… Cryptozoology:
1) How did you first become interested in cryptozoology?
1974-ish, meeting Bob Rickard, being introduced to Fortean Times, and first becoming aware that cryptozoology existed.
2) Have you ever personally seen a cryptid or secondary evidence of a cryptid, if so can you please describe your encounter?
I have a vague and hallucinatory memory, from when I was 4 years old, of seeing an enormous earthworm of an indefinite length in the front garden of my Nana Emerson's house, but that probably doesn't count.
3) Which cryptids do you think are the most likely to be scientifically discovered and described some day, and why?
I look forward to the return of the thylacine, and I would love to see those single-footed things out of Herodotus (is it?), turn out to be real.
4) Which cryptids do you think are the least likely to exist?
Those single-footed things... they were stamped out in the Bunion Age.
5) If you had to pick your favourite cryptozoological book (not including books you may have written yourself) what would you choose?
The Voyage of Saint Brendan.
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