the loneliness of a long distance cartoonist

It begins with Tomine as a child starting at a new school, where he’s mocked and bullied for being a comics nerd. Tomine presents slices from his 20-plus years as an artist and fan in cleanly drawn ink vignettes, homing in on his gaffes, anxieties, and critics as he looks back on his (objectively pretty stellar) career. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist Adrian Tomineĭrawn & Quarterly 34.95 cloth 168 9781770463950 The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist is a comic autobiography – both a memoir in comic form, and a retrospective of a life making comics – beautifully packaged in a faux Moleskine notebook on squared-grid paper.

She’s published a slew of well-received collections, including kids’ book Benny’s Brigade, graphic novel Coyote Doggirl, and two hilarious collections of shorter works, My Dirty, Dumb Eyes and Hot Dog Taste Test. As production designer and co-producer of Netflix’s Bojack Horseman, Hanawalt designed the show’s characters and aesthetic she later created her own show, Tuca & Bertie, and she scooped a James Beard award for her illustrations in Lucky Peach.

This prolific cartoonist has achieved a lot since creating I Want You, the work that set her career in motion. I’m sorry that’s so rude, but it’s true!” For those who’ve yet to encounter her work, this line nicely encapsulates Hanawalt’s vibe: frankly weird, a bit gross, and somehow compellingly vulnerable because of it. It feels like taking a shit and not flushing it. In her preface for I Want You, a retrospective collection of her early, pre-semi-fame series of mini-comics, Lisa Hanawalt writes, “I try to avoid looking back at old work.

The loneliness of a long distance cartoonist