Decade

## Strips

- The First Ever Megg & Mogg Strip
- Megg, Mogg & Michael Snow
- Thumbnails for Owl's Birthday
- Zine Faire
- Television Network Meeting
- High Priestess
- Sugar Sack
- No Brains
- Werewolf Jones' School of Rock

**Decade** is a remarkable zine that celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the *Megg & Mogg* comic series. As an exclusive Anniversary Special, this publication is dedicated to commemorating a decade of captivating storytelling and memorable characters. Inside, readers can delight in a treasure trove of rarities, outtakes, and intriguing production oddities, providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the creative process and evolution of the series.

## Production

The zine features full-color artwork and includes two stamps. Furthermore, each copy is signed by Simon himself. To ensure its exclusivity, the zine is numbered, making every copy one-of-a-kind. For added protection and preservation, the edition comes in a plastic bag. *Decade* had a limited print run of 750 copies.

## Notes

“Hi, and welcome to the Megg & Mogg *"Ten Year Anniversary Special" "Rarities and Oddities"* November 2008-2018.

Notes: No page numbers. *"In order of appearance"*.

Cover: was the cover to the third *Megahex* zine in 2011, then served as the header image on Tumblr 2012-present. Also used as a cover on the French and Spanish translations.

~~This page is text about~~ DECADE.

*The first ever Megg & Mogg strip* (2008) laying atop a pile of trash from the collection of Alvin Buenaventura (RIP).

"*Megg, Mogg & Michael Snow*". 2008. From the first zine. Based on the films of Michael Snow. The one with the fixed, spinning camera.

Thumbnails for "*Owl's Birthday*". 2009.

*Peanuts* Doodle, 2012 (?), from some zine with Flowers... can't remember.

"*Zine Faire*" riso color layers. Sloppily made in brutal summer heat on Flowers' lightbox the week before I moved to the US. 2015. "*Zine Faire*" appeared in *Dome* and was recolored for "*One More Year*".

Megg Portrait. 2012. Was in a frame on a table at Inverted Dawn, an art show with HTMLFlowers in Melbourne.

Book build for Megahex. 2014.

"*Television Network Meeting*". 2012. For a *Free Comic Book Day* zine put together by Marc Pearson in Melbourne for a bagel shop.

*High Priestess* (2012). Tarot themed screenprint for Telegraph Books. This hangs above my toilet and I look at it a lot.

Buenaventura Trash. I sent him trash and he kept it in acetate slips.

"*Sugar Sack*". From the first zine, 2009. A classic.

Cover to *Winter Trauma*, a zine from 2016.

Tour doodles for 2014 tour with DeForge and Kyle / tote bag doodles (French).

"*No Brains*". 2016. For a zine called "*Castles in the Sky*", edited by Mery Heers, based on a prompt from Leon Sadler.

Witch from erotic art show (2015) / cover for Scottish zine (2013?).

Laundromat doodle comic (2015) / Pitchfork / Gilmore Boys tour poster

"*Werewolf Jones' School of Rock*" (2014), from the Pitchfork review, payed 1k. This is a terrible strip. Has never been reprinted. Ugh.

Gig poster / photo by Nick Gazen / back cover for French anthology / snippet of a strip for The Believer / painting (2012) / doujinshi advertisement / two pages from Kus that were cut from *Megahex* / *One More Year* gig flyer / shirt design for Ormolycka (2018) / 2-pager from French anthology (Feuk!) / drawing cut from WWJ & Sons 2 (for obvious reasons) / French costumes.

Xmas 2019 from *Fantagraphics Free Comic Book Day* thing 2018.

Comic for *The Fader* (2018) / current workspace (notice fancy award statue).

Back cover: photo by JMKE, 2015, dress by Zaida Rodriguez.

Thanks for the support! *Bad Gateway* coming 2019”
― From the index page