The cover to Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann, featuring the title and author's name in an orange font that appears to be made out of shiny clay. In the background is an illustration of Megg and Werewolf Jones struggling with a mess of cords that appear to go to amps. Both have drool coming out of their mouths.
A sticker sheet from the Megg, Mogg, and Owl series, with stickers of Megg playing the keyboard while Werewolf Jones sings, a music note surrounded by flies, a tired-looking Owl with his wings crossed, Mike seated and doing the "rock on" gesture, one of Werewolf Jones' children naked, drinking, drooling, and peeing, and the title for Below Ambition. Below the stickers is text reading, "'Thanks for the support' - Simon Hanselmann and Fantagraphics. Suggested sticker placement: rock guitar, bong, dildo."
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  • Load image into Gallery viewer, A sticker sheet from the Megg, Mogg, and Owl series, with stickers of Megg playing the keyboard while Werewolf Jones sings, a music note surrounded by flies, a tired-looking Owl with his wings crossed, Mike seated and doing the "rock on" gesture, one of Werewolf Jones' children naked, drinking, drooling, and peeing, and the title for Below Ambition. Below the stickers is text reading, "'Thanks for the support' - Simon Hanselmann and Fantagraphics. Suggested sticker placement: rock guitar, bong, dildo."
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Simon Hanselmann

Below Ambition

On sale date: November 8, 2022

Following Simon Hanselmann's 2021 smash hit graphic novel Crisis Zone — which captured the zeitgeist of life under Covid and the New York Times Book Review called "the first great work of pandemic fiction" — things settle down, and Megg the Witch and Werewolf Jones get the band back together.

Megg and Werewolf Jones are Horse Mania. Horse Mania is a test of the audience's patience, proudly the "worst band in town," without any ambition to make it. Join the musicians as they battle through shoddy, distracted practice sessions, a squalid house show, and a doomed interstate tour. Watch as they drunkenly flail through their sets amidst toothaches, nervous breakdowns, suicide attempts, mounting hatred, and a galaxy of benzos. This is music and performance in its most primal, multifaceted, and pure form. Feel the tension. See the dirty looks. Taste the pain. Smell the depravity. Hear the veiled beauty. Horse Mania wants you to lose your mind.

Below Ambition is a meditation on youth, performance, and memory as only Simon Hanselmann, the best comedic writer in comics, is capable of. The book will also include a flexidisc single by Horse Mania, "Stick It In for the Ambient", which will be tipped into the front cover of the book for easy removal and play.

Orders of Below Ambition include an exclusive sticker sheet designed by Simon Hanselmann while supplies last!
Below Ambition is part of the Megg, Mogg, & Owl series.

Praise

"Hanselmann proves the perfect author to capture American life in late 2020. [Crisis Zone] escalates the depravity at a relentless pace and delivers both laugh-out-loud gags and genuine pathos." — Library Journal, Starred Review

"Hanselmann may be the funniest cartoonist working today, writing and illustrating comics that revel in a comedy of cruelty." — Jacob Brogan - The Washington Post

"Astoundingly well-crafted and punishingly heartfelt." — Vulture

"Hanselmann is one of the most gifted cartoonists alive." — The A.V. Club

Specs

Pages
168
Format
Paperback / Softback
Color
Full-color
Dimensions
6.2" × 8.9"
ISBN-13
9781683965497
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