I Can't Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex

Unmistakably Hanawalt, the Tuca & Bertie and Bojack Horseman visionary has returned to her comics roots

From the creative mind behind some of the most inventive and genre-expanding animated shows on TV comes a long-awaited collection of honest, silly, horny, and vulnerable comics. Intimate and emotionally layered, I Can't Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex is a collage-like collection of comic strips and artwork that blurs genre lines. This is a fragmented memoir of a horse girl, now in her forties and reflecting back on a lifetime of obsessions.

Whether Lisa Hanawalt is confronting large life issues like whether or not to have children, being an anxious lil freak, caring for a sick horse, or dealing with a major breakup and the ensuing lustfulness—she delivers a reading experience that’s relatable and affirming. In lush colors and kinetic lines, she charts the strange terrain of life, one bumpy, dusty horseback ride at a time. 

Like peeking into Hanawalt’s diary—I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex is an unbridled exploration of platonic and romantic fixations, traumas, and a send-up to interspecies friendship, told with her trademark candid humor. | “Unabashedly horny and occasionally gross, with an unvarnished emotional core that comes, in part, from Hanawalt’s uncanny ability to metabolize private thoughts and regurgitate them.”―The New Yorker

“With its leitmotif blend of whimsy, wistfulness, and a touch of scatology, [Hanawalt’s work] is funny and life-of-the-party loud.”―The Paris Review

“An artist with a masterly painting and drawing hand, obsessions with animals and genitals, and a very weird sense of humor.” ―New York Times | Lisa Hanawalt is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles, CA. She is the creator of the animated series Tuca & Bertie and the production designer/producer on BoJack Horseman and Long Story Short. Lisa has published four books with Drawn & Quarterly: My Dirty Dumb Eyes, Hot Dog Taste Test, Coyote Doggirl, and I Want You.