Simon Hanselmann is a comic book artist, who grew up in Tasmania. In 2019, he was based in Seattle, Washington.
Hanselmann is best known for his Megg, Mogg, and Owl series, which included a long-running comic strip in Vice magazine (collected in Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam). As well as works individually indexed on AustLit, he has published a range of zines, minicomics, and self-published works.
His awards, as well as the Eisner Award listed below, include a second Eisner for the short work 'The Comics Wedding of the Century' and a number of Ignatz Awards for short works.
According to his publisher, Fantographics:
In early 2016, Hanselmann moved to the USA from Australia and began producing xeroxed zines at a steady clip as a means to survive. Runs of 300 to 500 copies, sold online, with hand-painted covers, custom stamps and hologram security stickers. Usually created under duress, these zines often possessed an air of desperate urgency. Small explosions of concentrated, manic creativity harnessed as product. Seeds and Stems collects all of these out of print, self-published stories produced by the artist between 2016–2019, along with a generous smattering of rarities from various anthologies and magazines.
Source: http://www.fantagraphics.com/seeds-and-stems/
