Lisa Hanawalt

Lisa Hanawalt is the creator of the animated series Tuca and Bertie—which will be premiering its second season on Adult Swim in 2021—and the production designer/producer on Netflix’s Bojack Horseman. Lisa has worked on illustrations, book covers, animations, comics, and textile patterns and has published three previous books with Drawn & Quarterly: the humor collections My Dirty Dumb Eyes, Hot Dog Taste Test, and the bestselling graphic novel Coyote Doggirl. Before the success that came with all her critically acclaimed work, cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt was a comic-book-industry sensation with her minicomic series I Want You. Her outlandish humor and ingenious formalism are evident in the comics collected in I Want You (Drawn and Quarterly) Her love of anthropomorphism and scatology are on full display, all lovingly and grotesquely drawn by Hanawalt in obsessive, unnerving detail. We meet and join a She-Moose while sex-toy shopping, and also a He-Horse, who suffers from ornithophobia. The true star of I Want You may just be Hanawalt’s hilarious command of the graphic listicle. “Top Causes of Freeway Accidents” is a prescient pre-BoJack display of Hanawalt’s love for all things equine. Whether she’s discussing the daily commute or masturbation, she packs each comic in I Want You with punchy cultural observations and sharp-witted reflections on typically taboo subjects. Library Journal, in a starred review, called it “A brilliant collection from an audacious and boldly inventive cartoonist with a distinct and necessary perspective.”