“Hot Dog Taste Test” is a Food Review told in Illustrated Comics
Alumna Lisa Hanawalt (B.A., Art '06) has a new book out: "Hot Dog Taste Test"
Art Alumna Lisa Hanawalt, production designer and producer for Netflix series "Bojack Horseman" has published her second book.
"'They taste a bit like petroleum, and they're a little extra soft from the boiling,' Lisa Hanawalt writes of New York street hot dogs. 'But throw some ketchup and relish on there and tell me that doesn't taste "okay!"' < /br>Hanawalt's comedy comes in part from granting the banal a degree of attention uncommon outside of standup sets. Her comics about food, published first in McSweeney's food magazine Lucky Peach and now in her book Hot Dog Taste Test (Drawn and Quarterly, 176 pages, $22.95)—are both absurdly funny and meticulously engaged with their subject. There may be a few other food cartoonists out there in the world, but Hanawalt is definitely the only one who's won two James Beard food-writing awards in the past four years. < /br>This is despite the fact that food writing isn't even the main thing she does. She's probably best known as the character designer for the Netflix series Bojack Horseman—those anthropomorphized animals are her thing—not to mention her previous comic collection, My Dumb Dirty Eyes, and her podcast with comedian Emily Heller, Baby Geniuses."— James Helmsworth, June 23, 2016
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