Simon Hanselmann is an Australian-born cartoonist best known for his Megg, Mogg, and Owl series.[2] Hanselmann has been nominated four times for an Ignatz Award, four times for an Eisner Award (winning twice), twice 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.[3]
Although the title characters are a witch and a cat, like the popular 1970s children's book heroes Meg and Mog, "they are emphatically not the same".[4] In Hanselmann's stories, the pair are "depressed drug users struggling with life",[4] and are usually accompanied by two other regular characters, the uptight Owl and the highly volatile Werewolf Jones.[4]
Hanselmann's primary English-language publisher is Fantagraphics Books. He is currently living in California with his wife and daughter.[5]
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 Hulu produced by Justin Roiland. The short is titled Megahex, Devil’s Night, and featured the voices of Emma Chamberlain as Megg, Macaulay Culkin as Mogg, Dave Foley as Owl, and Jon Glaser as Werewolf Jones.
Awards
Nominations
2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic for St. Owl's Bay[6]
2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story for "Jobs" from Life Zone[7]