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News Briefs featuring Lisa Hanawalt
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Lisa Hanawalt signs at Pegasus Books, gets talked up by Patton Oswalt
Updated May 2, 2013
Pegasus Book Store, 30 April 2013
Lisa Hanawalt will discuss and sign copies of her newly released book, My Dirty Dumb Eyes. Hanawalt's comics and illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, The Hairpin, McSweeney’s, Chronicle Books, and Vanity Fair.
"For years I've encountered Lisa Hanawalt's comics and illustrations piecemeal -- in various magazines and periodicals. They're always a pleasant jolt. Now, they've been assembled into one thick, blazing bludgeon. I envy you getting walloped by them all for the first time. This is a Hanawalt assault. Succumb."–Patton Oswalt
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Lisa Hanawalt one of Print's new artists 2013
Updated May 2, 2013
From "Print’s 2013 New Visual Artists: Part 2"
Jane Lerner
Print Mag, 19 April 2013
(...)Age: 29
Title: Illustrator
From: Palo Alto, CA
Lives In: Brooklyn
“I do everything from children’s-book illustrations to weird comics to illustrated movie reviews,” says Lisa Hanawalt. More than anything, though, the Brooklyn-based artist is a gifted comedian. “I’ve always surrounded myself with comedians and class clowns,” she says.” My favorite artists and cartoonists are the funniest and dirtiest ones.” Art directors at magazines like Saveur, Glamour, and Bloomberg Businessweek know that she can make even the most mundane topic interesting and amusing. (It’s a rare recipe for vegetable soup that depicts the artist skating around on discarded onion skins.) At the same time, she is beloved in the underground comic-book scene, with several self-published titles and a big-deal collection coming out this year from Drawn & Quarterly, My Dirty Dumb Eyes.
Hanawalt’s drawings are profane and often confounding—one comic is called Sell Your Boobs, and many of her characters are gawky mammal-human hybrids—yet they remain exceedingly appealing and richly realized. As Christopher Silas Neal, her studio mate at Brooklyn’s Pencil Factory, says, “I’ve had the pleasure of glancing over her shoulder as she inks portrayals of animal sex, helicopter genitalia, and Paul Ryan homoerotica. But she’s more than a mere shock-jock comic.”
Visually, it’s as if R. Crumb took a trip to Busytown, brought along some bawdy old Playboy cartoons and a few episodes of Tim and Eric, and added a good dose of self-reflection. “I’m horrified by how gross bodies are,” Hanawalt says. “Coming back to that subject matter again and again in my work has just been my way of coping with that horror—there’s real pathos there.”
Like a stand-up performer, she mines her own life and pop culture for material, keeping lists of ideas and jokes on her computer, iPhone, and in sketchbooks. “I’m interested in comedy writing,” she says—a hint that the next stage of her career might go completely off the page.
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BuzzFeed: Lisa Hanawalt an internet expert
Updated May 1, 2013
"10 Insane Painters Who Clearly Spend Too Much Time On The Internet"
Kevin Tang
BuzzFeed, 15 April 2013
(...) Animal hat lookbook. You kinda just know Lisa Hanawalt can obliterate you in a brisk match of internetting. (...)
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Publishers Weekly on My Dirty Dumb Eyes: "Irresistible"
Updated May 1, 2013
Publishers Weekly, 17 April 2013
Imagine a grown-up Richard Scarry turned absurdist social commentator, and a world where dogs sit in houses made of fish. Hanawalt’s humor comics, which previously appeared in publications like Vanity Fair and the New York Times Book Review, are collected here for the first time. The disparate subject matter allows her to showcase her different styles: scantily clad animal-people in bright colors and action-packed scenes of chaos segue into painterly images of Anna Wintour riding an ostrich or detailed illustrations of animals in strange hats. While there’s no shying away from poop or unsatisfying sexual positions (“The Leave-In Conditioner”), the collection also allows Hanwalt’s verbal humor to shine in a series of illustrated movie and television reviews (“I just wrote ‘monkeys are horrible’ in my notebook,” she writes of the Planet of the Apes remake. “But I’m hunching over it so nobody can see”). Among the funniest pieces is an illustrated diary of her joyful and childlike trip to the serious industry Toy Fair. In between the overtly humorous pieces, there are more enigmatic stories featuring animal people in therapy sessions or sculpting fingers. Even when the humor flags, the gorgeous illustrations are irresistible.
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Lisa Hanawalt shares her favourite childhood books with Brooklyn Magazine
Updated May 1, 2013
From "Our Favorite Writers Share Their Favorite Childhood Books"
Kristin Iversen
Brooklyn Magazine, 17 April 2013
My older brother and I were obsessed with Cream of Creature from the School Cafeteria when we were little. The story is about a school lunch that gains sentience and won't stop growing and terrorizing the kids—it's super disgusting and the drawings are hilarious. And I won't completely spoil the ending, but I always loved that the hero of the story is a fat dorky kid.
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The A.V. Club praises My Dirty Dumb Eyes and You're All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack
Updated April 15, 2013
From "New comics releases include alternate-history fantasy-horror and a colorful foodie memoir"
Noel Murray
A.V. Club Comics Panel
April 9, 2013
(...) You’re All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack (D&Q) collects some of the comic strips that Gauld has drawn for The Guardian’s book review section, which means that most of them have a literary bent, riffing on famous authors and genre conventions. Gauld imagines a Brontë sisters videogame, with Charlotte racing across the moor toward an angry, cane-wielding man; and he draws some of the characters left out of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind In The Willows, such as Prawny, Madame Aubergine, and Viscount Stout. He re-conceives Charles Dickens as Batman (complete with Dickensmobile) and cites “Mary’s Undersea Adventure” and “Space Jesus” as some of the apocryphal Bible stories. The jokes in You’re All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack are quick one-pagers, dispatched in just a few panels, but they’re rooted in a love of the human side of books: the real people who write them and the fictional constructs who occupy them. That Gauld is able to get so much of that across with so little is like the most disarming, confounding magic trick. (...)
Unlike Gauld and Martin, Lisa Hanawalt mixes her one-off gags with multi-page humor stories, more in the mode of Michael Kupperman in terms of taking an approach that mixes illustrated text pieces, short strips, sketches, and sprawling sagas. Kupperman provides an approving pull-quote to the back of Hanawalt’s My Dirty Dumb Eyes (D&Q), joined by Patton Oswalt, Julie Klausner, and Kristen Schaal. Hanawalt’s comic style is all her own, though, mixing surrealism, raw sex, cute critters, pop culture, and her own first-person reportage and movie reviews. In short form, Hanawalt ponders how the creatures in Avatar poop (out of their mouths, she presumes), and shows what happens when a lover finds a woman’s “d-spot.” (She turns into a dinosaur.) In longer form, she has an animal-headed couple discussing the self-doubt of artists, and imagines celebrity chefs engaging in liquid-nitrogen fights. The subject matter in My Dirty Dumb Eyes ranges from the bizarre to the commonplace, and Hanawalt’s art can be both jaw-droppingly beautiful and purposefully hideous. She’s the opposite of Gauld and Martin in some ways, expressive where they’re minimalist. But what matters most is that she’s very, very funny, making what in other hands would be shock-comedy come off more like a friend describing a crazy dream. [NM]
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Lisa Hanawalt on T.I.P.S! 159
Updated April 11, 2013
9 April 2013
Cartoonist and podcaster Lisa Hanawalt creeps into Panther’s Lair to check out some of our brand new show segments. There’s Alex Reads the News, and Mike Introduces Friends At A Party. Plus: A fascinating Wiki of The Week!
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Robot 6's advance review of My Dirty Dumb Eyes
Updated April 11, 2013
"Look into Lisa Hanawalt’s ‘Dirty Dumb Eyes’"
J. Caleb Mozzocco
Comic Book Resources, 4 April 2013
It seems like only last year that artist Lisa Hanawalt’s illustrated reviews/reactions to movies like War Horse and The Vow at online magazine The Hairpin were making me laugh and grab the closest person to the computer to cajole with “Dude, you have to read this!”
And now Drawn and Quarterly has released a beautifully designed collection of some 120 pages of Hanawalt’s work, including those illustrated humor pieces, comics and straight-up “fine art” artwork.
What’s that? It was only last year? Wow. D+Q sure didn’t waste any time on putting a Hanawalt collection together, but anything that brings the artist to the attention of more readers is fine with me — it will cut down on my cajoling friends, family and co-workers.
My Dirty Dumb Eyes assembles a great deal of Hanawalt’s previously published work from all over, meaning you can find much of it online for free, but the book format doesn’t bombard you with a low dose of electrical radiation, and is therefore much safer to read.
Herein you will find Hanawalt’s movie reviews — Drive, Rise of The Planet of the Apes, the aforementioned Vow and War Horse — which consist of her reactions and observations and copious illustrations in her particular style, which is just representational enough to be perfect for parody. For example, when she observes that Channing Tatum resembles a Labrador so much that “he looks like you couldn’t leave him in a room with the food left out,” and accompanies it with an image of actor guiltily curled up on the floor in his underwear, with chewed-up chocolate and phone bills all around, well, it looks like Channing Tatum.
The same format is employed in Hanawalt’s 14-page report on a toy fair in Manhattan.
Other pieces are much more image-heavy, with one illustration per phrase or item on a list (“What Do Dogs Want??”, “Rumors I’ve Heard About Anna Wintour,” “The Secret Lives of Chefs,” etc).
Perhaps the most surprising pieces are Hanawalt’s pure comics — you know, with panels and dialogue bubbles and everything.
There are a handful of these included, and they are striking for their somewhat-surreal quality. The characters are usually anthropomorphic animals drawn in an incredibly realistic style, generally looking mostly human from the neck down but bearing the heads of moose or horses or dogs. The situations can be strange, as in the bizarre, bird-centric goings on seen in “Extra Egg Room.”
But they are more striking still for the quality of the design and draftsmanship on display. Hanawalt is a fine artist, but on these strips she becomes an even finer one, with a greater attention to detail than is on display in the shorter, humor/article pieces. They’re like the work of an entirely different artist, to be honest.
Bridging the gap between the two are pages of Hanawalt’s art, which isn’t in service of a story or a gag or a series of jokes but just nice paintings of the things shes interested in: animal people in construction outfits, penises, scantily clad lizard-women lounging on a car, that sort of thing.
The result is something of a collection as portfolio, My Dirty Dumb Eyes showing the breadth of Hanawalt’s range of styles, formats and sense of humor. Dude, you have to read this — I don’t want to have to cajole you again.
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Lisa Hanawalt’s My Dirty Dumb Eyes will be available in May.
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Washington Post congratulates Lisa Hanawalt's "true talent"
Updated April 4, 2013
"JAMES BEARD HONOR: Gifted Lisa Hanawalt is ‘super-surprised’ by nod for illustrated ‘Chefs’ work"
Michael Cavna
The Washington Post, 18 March 2013
The James Beard Foundation announced the final nominees Monday for its 2013 Book, Broadcast and Journalism awards (as well as its Chef and Restaurant finalists). The Brooklyn-based Hanawalt is nominated in the Humor category for the “Chefs” piece she created for Lucky Peach, who features
“I was super-surprised — I never realized that the Beard Awards had a category for ‘Journalism/Humor,’ and I’m just thrilled to be nominated alongside some of the chefs I illustrated,” Hanawalt, an Ignatz Award winner who will appear at this year’s Small Press Expo, tells Comic Riffs.
“Now I’m trying to figure out how to get a Tony award via comics. ... ”
One chef she illustrated, David Chang of New York’s Momofuku Noodle Bar, is nominated for Outstanding Chef; and another, April Bloomfield of the Spotted Pig, is nominated for Best Chef NYC.
The media winners will be announced May 3; the chef/restaurant winners will be announced three days later.
(Also nominated: Washington Post contributor and chef/consultant Aliza Green, for her article “The gloves can come off, as far as I’m concerned.”)
Yet again, when it comes to illustrated journalism, true talent rises like a souffle.
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Lisa Hanawalt featured on It's Nice That
Updated April 4, 2013
"Delightful, dirty, anthropomorphic fun from the very skilled hand of Lisa Hanawalt"
Anna Trench
It's Nice That, Thursday 14 February 2013
A lot happens in cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt’s mouths. Sporting sexy high fashion, lizards drape themselves over fast cars with suggestive, slithering tongues. On construction sites, busty canine workers let their floppy tongues hang out as they fumble with hoses and cavort on excavators. In the forest, pink hounds happily leap out of a huge Darth Vader/puppy’s verdant, gaping jaws. Meanwhile, Obama swallows love-struck, tongue-entwined Romney and Ryan whole.
Brooklyn-based Hanawalt’s comics and illustrations have been gracing McSweeney’s, The Believer, The New York Times and other quality magazines for ages now. They’re bright, bizarre and often crammed with textile-clad animals partaking in suggestive anthropomorphic activities. They’re also, of course, very well drawn and designed. If you haven’t feasted upon them yet, get stuck in; if you have, feast again.
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Lisa Hanaway's Hilarious International Beauty Show Video
Updated April 3, 2013
"Watch This LOL-Filled Vid of Lisa Hanawalt at the International Beauty Show"
Tess Duncan
BUST Magazine, 1 February 2013
Illustrator, cartoonist, and artist Lisa Hanawalt attended NYC’s International Beauty Show with her stand-up comedian boyfriend, Adam Conover. Hanawalt lets us know that she’s there to find out “how to be a real woman.” The two give their amusing takes on the whole ordeal, as Adam especially points out the ridiculousness of it all. (I have to admit, Adam, when I heard the acronym “IBS” my first thought was also Irritable Bowel Syndrome.)
Lisa Hanawalt has been featured in The NY Times, NY Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Saveur, Lucky Peach Magazine, Vanity Fair, Glamour, The Tornante Company, Chronicle Books, Poketo, Vice Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Motion Theory, Teefury. She has also received many awards for her outstanding illustrations. AND most importantly, she has a book coming out this May on Drawn & Quarterly. The book, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, is a collection of hilarious comics from the Hairpin, NY Times Believer and more.
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D+Q at TCAF: Rutu Modan, Gilbert Hernandez, and Lisa Hanawalt!
Updated March 4, 2013
TCAF 2013 welcomes LISA HANAWALT, GILBERT HERNANDEZ, and RUTU MODAN
Drawn & Quarterly announces festival line-up and participating authors!
FEBRUARY 26—Today, The Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2013 teams with venerable Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly to welcome Lisa Hanawalt, Gilbert Hernandez, and Rutu Modan as Featured Guests of the festival. All three creators will attend TCAF 2013 in support of new works published by Drawn & Quarterly, and will be prominently featured in Festival programming taking place May 11-12 at Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street.
This trio of talented graphic novelists will join previously announced and mainstay Drawn & Quarterly cartoonists Marc Bell, Chester Brown, Seth, and Art Spiegelman as a part of the 2013 Festival, and a host of other cartoonists published by D&Q across their long history. Drawn & Quarterly’s exceptionally strong line-up will make appearances at the Drawn & Quarterly booth during TCAF’s main exhibition dates. They will also participate in various other programs, including displays of original art, panel discussions, interviews, and much more. Final programming details and schedules will be announced closer to the TCAF dates.
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Biographies:
Lisa Hanawalt is a renowned self-publisher and illustrator living in Brooklyn, New York. Her comics work has won several Ignatz awards, and the Stumptown Award for Best Small Press Publication in 2011. Hanawalt’s illustration and comics clients include The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Hairpin, McSweeneys, Chronicle Books and Vanity Fair. She will debut her first major comics work, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, at TCAF 2013.
Gilbert Hernandez has been called “One of the greatest American storytellers,” by Junot Diaz. Alongside his brothers Jaime and Mario, Gilbert co-created and contributed to the acclaimed comic book series Love and Rockets, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012. Gilbert has won numerous awards for his stories, including the Kirby Award, Inkpot Award, Harvey Award, and the 2009 United States Artists Literature Fellowship. Gilbert will be at TCAF 2013 to debut his semiautobiographical new work Marble Season, easily one of the most-anticipated and most-important books of 2013.
Rutu Modan is the author of the phenomenal graphic novel Exit Wounds, which received enormous critical acclaim and was cited as one of the best graphic novels in its year of release by Entertainment Weekly, Time, The Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, and New York Magazine amongst others. An accomplished illustrator, graphic novelist, and teacher of the medium, her work is highly regarded around the world. Rutu Modan will attend TCAF 2013 to debut her new graphic novel The Property, published by Drawn & Quarterly. TCAF would like to thank the Consulate General of Israel in Toronto for their support of this trip.
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D+Q to Publish Lisa Hanawalt
Updated June 20, 2012
Drawn & Quarterly has acquired world rights to MY DIRTY DUMB EYES by award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt, it was announced today by Tom Devlin, Acquiring Editor & Creative Director. To be released in Spring 2013, MY DIRTY DUMB EYES is Hanawalt’s first full length work. It will be a collection of her intricately detailed, absurdly funny comics that have appeared in The Hairpin, VanityFair.com, Lucky Peach, Saveur, The New York Times and The Believer.
"We have been fans of Lisa for a very long time, she is the great combination of excellent drawing ability and being genuinely laugh out loud funny,” said Devlin. “Her unhinged musings on pop culture and celebrity make her the premiere humorist for her generation. She approaches her subjects with both a stalker's wild-eyed mania and a satirist's precise control.”
MY DIRTY DUMB EYES will be distributed in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and in Canada by Raincoast Books. International rights are represented by Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency. Meredith Kaffel of DeFiore and Company represented Hanawalt in negotiations.
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