Lisa Hanawalt

Lisa Hanawalt
Hanawalt speaking at the XOXO Festival in 2015
Born (1983-06-19) June 19, 1983
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Nationality American
Area(s)
  • Illustrator
  • cartoonist
  • production designer
  • producer
Notable works
 I Want You
Awards Full list
http://www.lisahanawalt.com

Lisa Hanawalt (born June 19, 1983) is an American illustrator and cartoonist. She is known for her work as a production designer and producer of the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman,[1] and co-hosts the podcast Baby Geniuses with Emily Heller.

In February 2018, Netflix had ordered a 10-episode animated series entitled, Tuca & Bertie. The series is created by Hanawalt herself. The series will be "a comedy about the friendship of two 30-year-old bird women who live in the same apartment building: Tuca, a cocky, care-free toucan and Bertie, an anxious, daydreaming songbird". It will star Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong in the leading roles.

Life and career

Hanawalt was born in Palo Alto, California, to Stanford biologists Philip Hanawalt and Graciela Spivak.[2] Her mother was raised in Argentina, in a family of Jewish refugees originally from Odessa.[3][4] Hanawalt graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006, and she lived in New York City from 2009 until 2014, when she returned to California. She is a former member of Pizza Island, a cartoonist's studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn which included cartoonists Kate Beaton, Domitille Collardey, Sarah Glidden, Meredith Gran, and Julia Wertz.[5]

Her illustrations and writings have been published in print and online periodicals including The New York Times, McSweeney's, Vanity Fair, and Lucky Peach magazine.[6][7] From 2011 through 2013, she was a regular contributor to The Hairpin and produced a series of illustrated film reviews.

Her first comic series, I Want You, was published in 2009 by Buenaventura Press. In 2010, Hanawalt was the first woman to win an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic, for "I Want You #1."

In 2013, Drawn and Quarterly published My Dirty Dumb Eyes, Hanawalt's "one-woman anthology" of comics and illustrations, including previously-commissioned works. The collected stories and shorts range from autobiographical narratives to cultural observations, frequently featuring anthropomorphic animal-people and scenes of nature rendered in bright, detailed watercolors, and likened by one reviewer to "a grown-up Richard Scarry turned absurdist social commentator."[8]

In 2016, Drawn and Quarterly published Hot Dog Taste Test. This book is a collection of comics and illustrations often featuring animal-people in vibrant watercolors.[9] Publishers Weekly said about her book, "Hanawalt takes a kebab skewer to the pomposity that’s grown up around food and dining. The cartoons evoke an idiosyncratic absurdity akin to Roz Chast’s work."[10]

In 2018, it was announced that Netflix had ordered Tuca & Bertie, an adult animated comedy series starring Tiffany Haddish.[11]

Awards and recognition

Print magazine named Hanawalt one of the best new, young designers in 2013.[12] Her illustrated short story, "On the Trail with Wylie," won a James Beard Foundation Award for humor writing in 2014.[13]

Awards

Nominations

  • 2013 James Beard Journalism Award for Humor, "The Secret Lives of Chefs," Lucky Peach[17]
  • 2015 James Beard Journalism Award for Humor, "Goodbye to all that sugar, spice, fat," Lucky Peach[18]

Selected works

  • 2012. Benny's Brigade, by Arthur Bradford. McSweeney's. ISBN 978-1-93636-561-6
  • 2013. My Dirty, Dumb Eyes. Drawn & Quarterly. ISBN 978-1-77046-116-1
  • 2016. Hot Dog Taste Test. Drawn & Quarterly. ISBN 978-1-77046-237-3

References

  1. ↑ Berkowitz, Joe (August 22, 2014). "How a Funny, Horse-Obsessed Artist Created the Look of Netflix's First Animated Show". Co.Create. FastCo. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Hanawalt Collects "My Dirty Dumb Eyes"". May 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Welcome to Graciela Spivak's Home Page". web.stanford.edu.
  4. ↑ Randle, Chris (May 31, 2016). "Lisa Hanawalt: BoJack cartoonist gets personal in Hot Dog Taste Test". the Guardian. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
  5. ↑ Ward, Katherine (April 3, 2011). "Books". NYMag.com. New York. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Visions of Thanksgiving". Sunday Review: The Opinion Pages. New York Times. 2011. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ Hanawalt, Lisa (April 13, 2014). "On the Trail with Wylie". Lucky Peach. Medium.com. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  8. ↑ "My Dirty, Dumb Eyes". Publisher's Weekly. 260 (11): 67. March 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Books". Lisa Hanawalt.
  10. ↑ "Comics Book Review: Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt. Drawn & Quarterly, $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-77046-237-3".
  11. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (February 20, 2018). "Netflix Picks Up Supernatural Teen Series". Deadline. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
  12. ↑ Lerner, Jane (April 2013). "Lisa Hanawalt". Print. 67 (2): 40–41.
  13. ↑ "James Beard Foundation 2014 Award Winners List" (PDF). James Beard Foundation. 2014. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  14. ↑ "2011 Stumptown Comic Arts Award Winners". The Comics Reporter. April 17, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Illustrators 56: Part Two". Society of Illustrators. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  16. ↑ Donnelly, Matt; Pond, Steve (January 17, 2016). "'Spotlight,' Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson Top Critics' Choice Award Winners". The Wrap. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  17. ↑ "2013 James Beard Awards Nominees" (PDF). James Beard Foundation. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  18. ↑ Borden, Maggie; Haak, Alyssa (April 9, 2015). "Meet the 2015 Humor Journalism Nominees". James Beard Foundation. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
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