Lisa Hanawalt
| Lisa Hanawalt | |
|---|---|
 Hanawalt speaking at the XOXO Festival in Portland, Oregon, 2015 | |
| Born |
June 19, 1983 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Illustrator, cartoonist, production designer, producer |
Notable works | I Want You |
| Awards | see complete 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 animated Netflix series BoJack Horseman,[1] and co-hosts the podcast Baby Geniuses with Emily Heller.
Career
Hanawalt was born in Palo Alto, California to Stanford biologists Philip Hanawalt and Graciela Spivak.[2] Her mother is a native of Argentina.[3] Lisa 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.[4]
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.[5][6] 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."[7]
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. Her comics offer an insightful and sharp perspective about popular culture, relationships and the animal in all of us. [8] 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."[9]
Awards and recognition
Print magazine named Hanawalt one of the best new, young designers in 2013.[10] Her illustrated short story, "On the Trail with Wylie," won a James Beard Foundation Award for humor writing in 2014.[11]
Awards
- 2009 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic, Stay Away from Other People
- 2010 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic, I Want You
- 2011 Stumptown Award for Best Small Press, I Want You #2 [12]
- 2013 Society of Illustrators Silver Medal in Editorial Illustration, "Birch Trees"[13]
- 2014 James Beard Journalism Award for Humor, "On the Trail With Wylie," Lucky Peach
- 2016 Critics' Choice Award for Best Animated Series, BoJack Horseman[14]
Nominations
- 2013 James Beard Journalism Award for Humor, "The Secret Lives of Chefs," Lucky Peach[15]
- 2015 James Beard Journalism Award for Humor, "Goodbye to all that sugar, spice, fat," Lucky Peach[16]
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
- ↑ Berkowitz, Joe (22 August 2014). "How a Funny, Horse-Obsessed Artist Created the Look of Netflix's First Animated Show". Co.Create. FastCo. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ↑ http://www.cbr.com/hanawalt-collects-my-dirty-dumb-eyes/
- ↑ http://web.stanford.edu/~gspivak/
- ↑ Ward, Katherine (3 April 2011). "Books". NYMag.com. New York. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ↑ "Visions of Thanksgiving". Sunday Review: The Opinion Pages. New York Times. 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ↑ Hanawalt, Lisa (13 April 2014). "On the Trail with Wylie". Lucky Peach. Medium.com. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ↑ "My Dirty, Dumb Eyes". Publisher's Weekly. 260 (11): 67. 18 March 2013.
- ↑ http://www.lisahanawalt.com/books#/new-page-1/.
- ↑ https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-77046-237-3
- ↑ Lerner, Jane (April 2013). "Lisa Hanawalt". Print. 67 (2): 40–41.
- ↑ "James Beard Foundation 2014 Award Winners List" (PDF). James Beard Foundation. 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ↑ "2011 Stumptown Comic Arts Award Winners". The Comics Reporter. 17 April 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ↑ "Illustrators 56: Part Two". Society of Illustrators. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ↑ Donnelly, Matt; Pond, Steve (17 January 2016). "‘Spotlight,’ Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson Top Critics’ Choice Award Winners". The Wrap. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ↑ "2013 James Beard Awards Nominees" (PDF). James Beard Foundation. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ↑ Borden, Maggie; Haak, Alyssa (9 April 2015). "Meet the 2015 Humor Journalism Nominees". James Beard Foundation. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
