Joe Ollmann (born March 25, 1966 in Hamilton, Ontario) is an award-winning Canadian cartoonist.
Ollmann's cartooning style has been described as "scratchy angular angry big steaming slice-of-life comics” and the cartoonist Seth has called Ollmann “one of our medium’s great writers.”Ollmann grew up on a Christmas tree farm near Hamilton, Ontario and self-published his first 3-issue comic book series, Dirty Nails Comics, beginning in 1988.
He contributed cartoons to The Hamilton Spectator in the early 1990s, and had a long-running strip in Exclaim! magazine.
He began publishing short comics stories in his own self-published anthology series Wag! in 1991, continuing for 9 issues to 2004 and compiled in The Big Book of Wag! (Conundrum Press, 2005).
Insomniac Press published his first original collection of short stories in 2002 as Chewing on Tinfoil.