If you enjoyed the “Devil’s Night” short, you owe it to yourself to check out the comics upon which it is based.Ī good place to start is 2014’s Megahex, the original collection. If this is your introduction to the world of Megg, Mogg, Werewolf Jones, and Owl, welcome. Could “Devil’s Night “ be an overture for an animated series or feature adaptation of Megahex? A gal can dream… Megahex comix crash course The short’s animation was produced by Floyd County Productions, and it takes place at roughly 22 minutes into the The Paloni Show! Halloween Special.

St.With Emma Chamberlain as Megg, Macaulay Culkin as Mogg, Jon Glaser as Werewolf Jones, and Dave Foley as Owl, the animation of “Devil’s Night” strongly evokes the source material, especially the endpaper artwork included in the various collections of Hanselmann’s comics work.

2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival Award for 'Best Series'īibliography Minicomics, webcomics, and anthology contributions.

2017 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album Reprint for 'Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam'.2017 Eisner Award for Best Short Story for 'The Comics Wedding of the Century'.2017 in selection at Angoulême festival BD for 'Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam'.2016 Ignatz Award for Best Series and Best Story for Amsterdam.2016 in selection at Angoulême festival BD for 'Magical Ecstacy Trip'.2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story for 'Jobs' from Life Zone.2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic for St.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. 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. In March 2020, he began serializing a pandemic-themed serial, Crisis Zone, on his Instagram. He is currently living in California with his wife and daughter. Hanselmann's primary English-language publisher is Fantagraphics Books. 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.

Īlthough 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'. Hanselmann's Megg, Mogg, and Owl comics are currently published in 13 languages internationally. 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. Simon Hanselmann is an Australian-born cartoonist best known for his Megg, Mogg, and Owl series.

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