HUNT EMERSON nous a fait le plaisir de dessiner le nouveau bandeau pour LES MONSTRES SACRÉS. En voici le crayonné pour vous, nous le remercions grandement. Quel talent ! L'équipe des Monstres Sacrés Es-tu aussi dessinateur, as-tu envie de partager ton talent ? Contacte-nous avec tes dessins à monstres.sacres@yahoo.com

RAMONES 1977 One of the great regrets of my life. I was on my way to see the Ramones in Birmingham – walking towards the venue – and something happened that stopped me and I never saw them. I love the Ramones because they’re so pure. I’m in a bookshop, and there’s pile of “On the Road with The Ramones” books. I pick one up and flip it open, and there is my drawing, used as a poster for the Melkweg Club in Amsterdam! Wow! I mean – how cool is that?! Naturally I stole a copy. THE LOUTS 1977 Melody Maker was very nervous about Punk, and wished it had never happened. My drawing is ok but a bit clumsy… haha! I’m talkin? You should see it now! GREGG ‘n’ CHER 1977 They had this brief disastrous marriage and an awful tour to promote the album. I was given tickets to see them by Melody Maker – the promoters needed to fill the halls for this less-than-sellout tour –so I saw them. Ahem.. well, that’s about as much as I remember about Cher. My drawing, come to look at it, is a good parody of the

T-shirt design that I made for myself. 25 t-shirts printed. 2017 We have already mentioned Hunt Emerson in one of our Memorabilia . Now he's the subject of an interview for his years spent drawing superbly for Melody Maker. Our special thanks to him for his patience and kindness in recalling what is only a small part of his artistic activity. Can you tell us how you started drawing and what your inspirations were? I have drawn since I could hold a pencil. I have a memory of drawing a marching band on the bedroom wall, and getting into trouble for it, at the age of 3. Like all British children I read the comics of the time – The Beano , The Dandy , Topper , Beezer , Eagle , Victor , Hotspur – there were so many of them, and all British cartoonists of my generation were influenced by them. But for me the biggest influence on how I wanted to draw was the early MAD comics, by Harvey Kurtzman , Wally Wood , Jack Davis and William Elder . I loved those books, even though I didn’t real

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