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Best known for his Megg, Mogg and Owl series of books, Simon has a unique perspective on life, art and storytelling. His work is simultaneously hilarious and profoundly unsettling. Although the title characters of Megg and Mogg are a witch and a cat, like the popular 1970s children’s book heroes Meg and Mog, there the similarity ends. In Hanselmann’s stories, the pair are, in his words, ‘depressed drug users struggling with life’. Simon’s work has brought him two Eisner Awards and the prestigious Angoulême International Comics Festival Award for Best Series. Most recently, he has been serialising a pandemic-themed story...

As seen on her popular Instagram account (@mrmtacchia), Southern Californian cartoonist and animator Miranda Tacchia's first book collects more than two hundred hilarious one-liners (and even funnier drawings) tackling modern friendship, romance, urban living, and self-image. Have you ever schemed with a friend? Stared at your phone screen well after you should have gone to sleep? Braced for heartbreak? Been told to smile more? Then Unimpressed will undoubtedly speak to you. In a book that bridges comics and memes, Tacchia uses her biting sense of humor and background in animation to create brilliant character portraits of women with only markers,...