In writing, Megahex couldn’t sound more in bad taste.īut Tasmanian-born, Melbourne-based Simon Hanselmann is now the first major Australian comic artist ever. The comics are drawn almost like bastardized episodes of The Simpsons featuring lots of bongs, lots of red eyes and lots of genitalia. Megahex is the episodic story of Megg, a depressed stoner witch who lives with Mogg, her savvy, stoner cat (and part-time lover), alongside their anal-retentive, forlorn housemate, Owl, who is indeed an owl the size of a full-grown man. But then there’s Megahex by Simon Hanselmann.
Graphic novels such as Blankets are sometimes considered “dignified comics,” which inadvertently suggests that other comics are somehow menial or crass in comparison. They offer a reading experience that prose cannot, and yet are capable of affecting the reader with the same power as any good work of literature or even film can. Comics, I think, are a largely misunderstood and under-appreciated story-telling medium. It wasn’t until I first read Blankets by Craig Thompson, the poetic autobiographical memoir about first love, that I discovered comics were magical. Dense, human comic book characters that are relatable? Umm…yes please. In the latest TBS Book Review, Mikael Hattingh schools us on Simon Hanselmann’s Megahex, out through Fantagraphics.
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