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Simon Hanselmann’s Megg, Mogg & Owl Coming To BAM
Graphic novel artist Hanselmann will bring his work to BAM this spring.
From Bellevue Arts Museum: Bellevue Arts Museum will present the first museum exhibition for Simon Hanselmann, creator of the New York Times bestselling Megg, Mogg & Owl graphic novel series. Bad Gateway, which opens at BAM in the spring of 2019, brings Hanselmann’s characters to life through hand-crafted installations, zines, and original artwork. Timed to coincide with the publication of a new volume of Megg, Mogg & Owl, also titled Bad Gateway (Fantagraphics Books, 2019), the exhibition will feature 176 hand-watercolored pages from the book, which demonstrate Hanselmann’s mastery of sequential art. The installations in the exhibition present vignettes of Hanselmann’s dysfunctional comic characters in the real world.
Megg, Mogg, Owl, Werewolf Jones, and Booger abjectly protrude into three-dimensional space, doing what they do best: anxiously smoking weed, watching DVD boxsets of Seinfeld, and weeping alone in their rooms, terrified of reality and society. During the run of the exhibition Hanselmann will appear in person, in character as the green-skinned Megg, to perform his own quiet, buzzing odes to lost friends and lost time.
Image via Bellevue Arts Museum