Crisis Zone (graphic novel)
| Crisis Zone | |
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| Date | August 17, 2021 |
| Page count | 292[1] pages |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics |
| ISBN | 9781683964445 |
Crisis Zone is a graphic novel created by Simon Hanselmann, featuring the characters from his Megg, Mogg, & Owl series as they deal with the events of the COVID-19 pandemic. It exists in a separate timeline to the main Megg, Mogg, & Owl series.[2] The series was originally serially published on Instagram during 2020 before being released as a graphic novel with additional material in 2021.[2]
Critical reception
Crisis Zone received highly positive reviews from critics. In The New York Times, Ed Park said that it was "the first great work of pandemic fiction".[3] Jack Chelgren in the Los Angeles Review of Books called it "a sensitive, sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing account of [2020]", though felt that "some of the more extreme displays of bad politics in Crisis Zone lose their satirical edge by replicating the same narrow-mindedness the book seems to want to critique".[4] Reviewing the original Instagram release for SOLRAD in 2020, Lane Yates called the comic "perfectly captivating to engage with and to be engaged with".[5]
References
- ^ "Crisis Zone". Fantagraphics. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
- ^ a b Coplan, Chris (16 August 2021). "Simon Hanselmann welcomes you to the 'Crisis Zone'". AIPT. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
- ^ Park, Ed (8 October 2021). "How Comics Responded to Our Locked-Down, Anxious Covid Lives". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
- ^ Chelgren, Jack (4 October 2021). "Crisis Industry: On Simon Hanselmann's Pandemic Webcomic". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
- ^ Yates, Lane (22 October 2020). "Scene Report: Lane Yates Reviews CRISIS ZONE by Simon Hanselmann - SOLRAD". SOLRAD. Retrieved 12 November 2025.