One More Year

by Simon Hanselmann

Overview

The latest graphic novel in the New York Times best-selling comic series about a stoner witch, a cat, an owl, and a werewolf.

The characters are imbued with far more pathos and depth than seems plausible given the stock comic premise — drugged-out, slacker roommates. One More Year continues to give substance to the characters and personalities of its protagonists in ways that never fail to surprise, delight, and horrify.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606999974
Publisher:	Fantagraphics Books
Publication date:	06/20/2017
Series:	Megg, Mogg and Owl
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	1,121,305
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Simon Hanselmann hails from Tasmania but resides with his family in Los Angeles, CA.  His bestselling New York Times series Megg, Mogg and Owl has been translated into thirteen languages, nominated for multiple Ignatz and Eisner awards, and won Best Series at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2018.

Editorial Reviews

06/26/2017
Hanselmann’s bestselling parodic characters Megg and Mogg return in another collection of the nihilism, literally cartoonish cruelty, and bursts of the stoner comedy that the strip is best known for. Though this book isn’t a linear graphic novel like the previous Worst Behavior, Hanselmann weaves a few story threads throughout: long-suffering Owl’s crush on Megg; the slow downward spiral of Werewolf Jones; and Megg and Mogg’s crushing struggles with depression and anxiety, which often leave them all but unable to function. It’s in this strife that the book finds its title—the phrase is Megg’s mantra to convince herself not to die yet. Those flickers of nearly extinguished humanity are what guide Hanselmann’s narrative. Readers are forced to find sympathy for even the most abusive characters, and acknowledge the flaws in the most pitiable; Owl—often the victim of everyone else’s attacks—is himself prone to the same violent toxicity he experiences from others. Hanselmann’s world isn’t just devoid of heroes, it’s full to bursting with all humanity’s sins. While that’s far from a universally appealing lens for fantasy, readers struggling with their own demons will find this anthology chillingly real. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"One More Year is mean-spirited, cynical, bitterly depressing, and vulgar in the extreme. But it’s in that junkyard of a world that Hanselmann manages to coax up a truly compelling and flawed transfeminine character."

Medium

"In this latest edition we certainly get more of what drew us to Hanselmann's stories in the first place: the exquisite, teeth-clenching art; the barrage of gross-out humor with scattered moments of poignancy and beauty; an oppressive backdrop that captures the soul-crushing pressure of just being alive. But we also get something new."

Under the Radar

"It’s signature Hanselmann: a tale of friends and their endlessly f—ed up antics."

The Fader

"These are simultaneously some of the meanest and most tender comics you will ever read."

Seattle Weekly

"One More Year is an astoundingly well-crafted and punishingly heartfelt depiction of mental illness and codependence, one that also manages to make you laugh uncomfortably at the horrible decisions made by the characters you’re watching."

Vulture

"Hanselmann succeeds not only in pursuing cringe humor to its darkest corner but also in his depiction of hallucinatory states—expect plenty of dripping appendages and faces, along with wild and wide-ranging color schemes."

Omnivoracious