Simon Hanselmann is an Australian-born

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best known for his ''Megg, Mogg, and Owl'' series.Simon Hanselmann interview at the ''Comics Journal''
/ref> Hanselmann has been nominated four times for an Ignatz Award, four times for an Eisner Award, once for the Harvey Award and won Best Series at Angouleme 2018.

Art career

Hanselmann's ''Megg, Mogg, and Owl'' comics are currently published in 13 languages internationally. Although the title characters are a witch and a cat, like the popular 1970s children's book heroes ''

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'', "they are emphatically not the same". In Hanselmann's stories, the pair are "depressed drug users struggling with life", and are usually accompanied by two other regular characters, the uptight Owl and the highly volatile Werewolf Jones. Hanselmann's primary English-language publisher is

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. He is currently living in

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. In March 2020, he began serializing a pandemic-themed serial, ''Crisis Zone'', on his Instagram. In October 2022, Megg, Mogg & Owl made their animated debut in the anthology film ''The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!'' for

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produced by

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. The short is titled ''Megahex, Devil’s Night'', and featured the voices of

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as Megg,

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as Mogg,

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as Owl, and Jon Glaser as Werewolf Jones.

Awards

Nominations

*2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic for ''St. Owl's Bay''2013 Ignatz Awards nominations.
/ref> *2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story for "Jobs" from ''Life Zone''2014 Ignatz Award Winners IN FULL
/ref> *2016 in selection at Angoulême festival BD for "Magical Ecstacy Trip" *2016 Ignatz Award for Best Series and Best Story for Amsterdam *2017 in selection at Angoulême festival BD for "Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam" *2017

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for Best Short Story for "The Comics Wedding of the Century" *2017

for Best Graphic Album Reprint for "Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam" *2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival Award for "Best Series"

Bibliography

Minicomics, webcomics, and anthology contributions

*''St. Owl's Bay'' (2013), broadsheet newspaper, published by Floating World Comics *''Mould Map 3'' (2014), two-page strip, published by Landfill Editions *''Megg, Mogg, & Owl'' (2014–ongoing), weekly comic, published online by ''

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'' *''Werewolf Jones and Sons'' issue 1 (2015), with HTMLflowers; self-published *''Dome'' (2016), three-page strip, published by Lagon Revue and Breakdown Press *''Winter Trauma'' (2016), self-published

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*''Drone'' (2016), edition of 400, self-published minicomic *''Minihex'' (2016), published by Fantagraphics *''Landscape'' (2016), self-published minicomic *''Gouffre'' (2017), 10 page strip, published by Lagon Revue *''Portrait'' (2017), edition of 400, self-published minicomic *''Hard Rubbish'' (2017), 12 pages, edition of 300, self-published minicomic *''Innessential Garbage'' (2017), published by Fantagraphics *''WOTW'' (2017), 16 pages, edition of 500, self-published minicomic *''XMP-165'' (2017), 28 pages, edition of 500, self-published magazine *''Performance'' (2017),16 pages, 3000 copies, broadsheet newspaper, published by Floating World *''Lucidity'' (2017), 44 pages, edition of 550, self-published minicomic *''Werewolf Jones and Sons 2'' (2017), with HTMLflowers; 24 pages, edition of 500, self-published *''Romance'' (2017), 12 pages, edition of 600, self-published minicomic *''Apartments'' 24 pages, edition of 600, self-published minicomic * ''Entertainment'' 24 pages, edition of 600, self-published minicomic *''Megg, Mogg, & Penguins'' 16 pages, edition of 700, self-published minicomic *''Decade'' 60 pages, edition of 750, signed and numbered self-published minicomic *''Knife Crime'' (July 2019), 36 pages, self-published minicomic *''Werewolf Jones and Sons #3'' (2019), with HTMLflowers, 28 pages, edition of 500, self-published minicomic *''Megahex 2020 Winter Trauma Annual'' (December 2019), 52 pages, edition of 700, self-published minicomic *''Below Ambition'' (2020), 36 pages, edition of 600, self-published minicomic

Books

*''Life Zone'' (2013), Space Face Books, (all stories in ''Life Zone'' are republished in ''One More Year'') *''Megahex'' (2014),

, *''Worst Behavior'' (2015), Pigeon Press, (this is a black-and-white book; the same story appeared in ''One More Year'') *''Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam (And Other Stories)'' (2016), Fantagraphics Books, *''One More Year'' (2017), Fantagraphics Books, *''Bad Gateway'' (2019), Fantagraphics Books, *''Seeds and Stems'' (2020), Fantagraphics Books, *''Crisis Zone'' (2021), Fantagraphics Books, *''Below Ambition'' (2022), Fantagraphics Books,

References

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