Hot Dog Taste Test

by Lisa Hanawalt

Overview

The new book from the James Beard Award-winning cartoonist and designer/producer of Netflix’s Bojack Horseman

"Frankly speaking, you should get off your buns and go buy this book — you'll relish it."—Amy Sedaris

"Hot Dog Taste Test roasts food obsession in its many forms with a sometimes gross, sometimes charming collection of watercolors, sketches and comics."—Lucy Feldman, Wall Street Journal

"[Hot Dog Taste Test is] hilarious and at times breathtakingly inventive.”—Graeme Macmillan, Wired

"Hanawalt’s art balances the somber and the playful... [and her] hybrids make use of the estrangement between human and animal."—Chris Randle, The Guardian

Hot Dog Taste Test serves up Lisa Hanawalt's devastatingly funny comics, saliva-stimulating art, and deliciously screwball lists as she skewers the pomposities of foodie subculture. From the James Beard Award-winning cartoonist and production designer/producer of Bojack Horseman, Hot Dog Taste Test dishes out five-star laughs as Hanawalt keenly muses on pop culture, relationships, and the animal in all of us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770462373
Publisher:	Drawn & Quarterly
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,099,576
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Lisa Hanawalt is an artist living in Los Angeles, CA. She is the creator of the animated series Tuca and Bertie—which will be premiering its second season on Adult Swim in 2021—and the production designer/producer on Netflix’s Bojack Horseman. Lisa has worked on illustrations, book covers, animations, comics, and textile patterns. She co-hosts the podcast Baby Geniuses with comedian Emily Heller. Lisa has published three previous books with Drawn & Quarterly: My Dirty Dumb Eyes, Hot Dog Taste Test, and Coyote Doggirl.

Editorial Reviews

★ 02/15/2016
Hanawalt, the author of My Dirty Dumb Eyes and designer for the animated series Bojack Horseman, turns her cartooning eye toward food and foodie culture—among other topics—in her second collection. With essays on Vegas buffets, Argentinian cuisine, and swimming with otters (many originally published in Lucky Peach magazine), 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 (“Baking tip: keep your sweet tooth away from your salt molar”). Of particular interest is Hanawalt’s account of observing Wylie Dufresne, which approaches the chef and his work not from a pedestal of haughty criticism or with the kowtowing awe that pervades “cheflebrities,” but simply as a woman who loves food of all kinds. New Yorkers will get a special kick out of the detailed breakdown of the city’s sidewalk cuisine, but Hanawalt’s self-aware humor (with a side order of deeply affecting personal stories) will whet anyone’s appetite. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"...hilarious and at times breathtakingly inventive."— Wired

"In typically funny fashion, writer and cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt ... skewers foodie culture and offers up a buffet of personal stories."—Laura Pearson, Chicago Tribune

“…a riot of color, spilling with imagination, and simply a lot of fun.”—Estelle Tang, Elle

"...Insouciant [and] irreverent drawings.”—Nicole Rudick, Paris Review

"Hanawalt explores her anxieties and obsessions with candor and imaginative humor, pointing out the fantastical elements of everyday life, and injecting some magic (or, more likely, a weird pervy energy) into the mundane.”—Monica Heisey, Broadly

"[Hanawalt's] irreverent illustrated musings ... depict things we all feel but rarely say out loud.”—Sabrina Ford, Bust

"Lisa Hanawalt is the 21st century’s voice of funny."—Hans Rollman, PopMatters

“The cartoons evoke an idiosyncratic absurdity akin to Roz Chast’s work... Hanawalt’s self-aware humor (with a side order of deeply affecting personal stories) will whet anyone’s appetite.”—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

"Lisa Hanawalt has an amazing ability to make the mundane disturbing and the strange seem normal. Also, her baking tips are solid."—David Chang, Founder of Momofuku Restaurants & Lucky Peach Magazine

"We are so lucky to get these peeks into Lisa Hanawalt's brain and stomach. The amount of joy in her gleefully pervy illustrations makes me happier to be alive. I aspire to the level of enthusiasm she seems to derive from examining how stupid it is to be a person!"—Tavi Gevinson, Editor of Rookie

"Lisa Hanawalt is the Matisse of the buffet line, the O'Keefe of the fish ball, and the Vermeer of the pigeon with a hot dog in its beak. Also: horses."—Jonathan Gold, food critic and Pulitzer Prize Winner

"Lisa Hanawalt is my favourite funny artist. Her special brand of humor hits me directly where I live, even though I never told her where I live."—Jaime Hernandez, author of Love and Rockets

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