Simon Hanselmann

Simon Hanselmann is a Tasmanian-born cartoonist best known for his Megg, Mogg and Owl series. Hanselmann has been twice nominated for an Ignatz Award for his work in comics.

Art career

Hanselmann's Megg, Mogg and Owl comics are currently published in 13 languages internationally. The full-length book Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam was released by Fantagraphics in 2016.

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". In Hanselmann's stories, the pair are "depressed drug users struggling with life". They are usually accompanied by two other regular characters, the sedate Owl and the highly volatile Werewolf Jones.

Hanselmann's primary English-language publisher is Fantagraphics Books. He is currently living in Seattle.

Awards

Nominations

• 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic for St. Owl's Bay
• 2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story for "Jobs" from Life Zone
• 2016 in selection at Angoulême festival BD for "Magical Ecstacy Trip"
• 2017 in selection at Angoulême festival BD for "Megg & Mogg In Amsterdam"

• 2013 Ignatz Awards nominations.
• 2014 Ignatz Award Winners IN FULL