![]() ![]() Although it’s full of drug-based cruel humor, Hanselmann’s vision of three roommates-a witch, her boyfriend cat and an uptight owl the pair torment-moves beyond shallow 420 jokes to something more like a bildungsroman. His strip Megg Mogg Owl runs regularly on Vice and has been collected in two hardcover compilations so far, the most recent of which is Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam (and Other Stories), published by Fantagraphics. Simon Hanselmann is exactly that sort of unicorn: a high school drop-out from Tasmania who’s become a New York Times-bestselling comics writer/artist, projecting his own deeply disturbing, hilarious vision of millennial ennui. ![]() Few other categories within the entertainment industry nourish so many workaholic weirdos who actually manage to make a living doing what they love. ![]() The indie comics world is full of weird, life-affirming success stories. ![]()
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