Bad Gateway

Megg and Mogg, whose story is told in three previous, international, best-selling graphic novels, come to a breaking point in this volume.

Publisher Marketing: If you like your comedy black, profane and outrageous, you've probably already encountered Hanselmann's twisted tales of Meg, Mogg, Owl and Werewolf Jones or should want to soon. Bad Gateway takes the emotional depth of Hanselmann's previous work up several notches. It also brings his finely-detailed and beautifully watercolored artwork to the fore.-- "Forbes" Review Quotes : Astoundingly well-crafted and punishingly heartfelt.-- "Vulture" Review Quotes : Hanselmann is one of the most gifted cartoonists alive.-- "The A.V. Club" Review Quotes : Readers struggling with their own demons will find Hanselmann's work chillingly real.-- "Publishers Weekly" Review Quotes : These are simultaneously some of the meanest and most tender comics you will ever read.-- "Seattle Weekly" Review Quotes : Bad Gateway is a soap opera. It's a sitcom. It's a black comedy about drug addiction. ... There's a voyeuristic quality to it--like watching a car crash. But it's also hard not to root for this out-of-control crew. I want them to win.-- "Portland Mercury" Review Quotes : Hanselmann's particular brand of surrealist, sharp-witted humor [is] augmented with a darkness that draws from his own deeply personal experiences, but which has clearly touched a helluva lot of people.-- "Eye on Design" Review Quotes : Hanselmann is a phenomenally talented, internationally renowned cartoonist who switches between laugh-out-loud absurdist humor and startlingly raw scenes of extreme sadness from one panel to the next, and this is his finest, funniest, and most mature work to date.-- "Library Journal (starred review)" Review Quotes : Bad Gateway feels like Hanselmann's going all out; giving us deeper character development, more depressing, yet relatable backstory and tragi-comic events than ever before. Hanselmann is hitting his stride and it's clear his over-arching narrative is now becoming satisfyingly cohesive. Not to be missed for fans of the series.-- "Gosh Comics" Publisher Marketing : Perpetually drunk and high, lovable degenerates Megg and Mogg have drifted through a life full of raucous antics and free of consequences. But their heavy drug use, once a gateway to adventure, has begun to take a grim psychological toll. As her unstable lifestyle finally catches up to her, Megg must turn to her past to uncover the roots of her self-destructive habits that have led her down this dark path.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 176 | Publication Date: 2019-07-30