#coyote doggirl

[nonetoon]

✨ Big Comic Recommendation List! ✨

I’ve been wanting to compile some of my favorite comics into one big list in no particular order for a while. Again, I just want to reiterate that I’m in no way any sort of comic critic and all of these are just books that I personally enjoy, and if they seem up your alley I hope you’ll enjoy them too!

I also want to state that these are definitely more adult oriented books and not for kids. A lot of these stories have pretty graphic violence and tackle more adult topics like sexual or physical assault, so I’ll also be putting content warnings for where it applies.

1. Afternoon at McBurger’s by Ana Galvañ

Afternoon at McBurger’s takes place in a bright, colorful future where a group of young girls finally have the opportunity to participate in the Once Party provided by McBurger’s, a fast food restaurant. The Once Party offers a fantastical opportunity for anyone who turns eleven years old: the chance to visit themselves in the future!

The limited color palette of pink, teal, and yellow make for a very nice aesthetic that lends itself to the strange, futuristic world you get just a glimpse into. For such a short story there is a lot to keep track of that makes rereading fun and I felt like I discovered something new every time I went through it again.

CW: physical abuse

2. No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson

Another short one but is definitely one of the more impactful. No One Else is about a woman (a nurse and full time caretaker for her elderly father) and her brother (a musician who has a much more strained relationship with their father) trying to process the sudden, accidental death of their father while also looking after her son. A very honest, holds-no-punches look at family, abuse, and neglect as each character struggles to cope with this sudden situation they find themselves in.

The artwork is beautifully done and the use of blues with a splash of orange makes for a great visual impact. I’m a big fan of character driven stories, and this book provides an interesting and messy glimpse into these characters lives. Very down to earth, very honest, and nicely tied together.

CW: physical abuse

3. Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge

A fun and meandering story about a society of birds that migrated to the moon to form their own world, away from human involvement. Birds of Maine follows both a group of young birds trying to find their place in this giant, complex world as well as gives glimpses of the many different facets of bird society and how they function.

This comic gives a very funny, matter-of-fact look into the absurd world of birds! It’s overall a great read if you like world building, and it’s presented with beautiful line work, bright pops of color, and abstract shapes that make up the bustling world and characters. The story overall feels like a stroll: it generally follows along a specific story with certain characters, but isn’t afraid to wander off to other points of interest.

4. Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt

Set in the wild west, Coyote Doggirl follows said character as she tries to escape a group of bandits after she kills their leader’s brother. Along the way she meets new allies and has to decide to confront the past she is trying desperately to get away from or keep on running. It’s a funny yet honest book set in the beauty of the desert.

The story and characters in Coyote Doggirl are both hilarious and crude, which makes the more serious and genuine moments even more impactful. The loose style of the watercolors throughout this comic perfectly match the beautiful colors of the desert landscape. This comic also has probably one of my favorite endings (which I’m not going to spoil here).

CW: nudity, sexual assault, graphic violence

5. Eight-Lane Runaways by Henry McCausland

Eight-Lane Runaways follows a group of runners participating in a marathon through a fantastical and lively world. Each have their own motivations and desires for entering the race, and we get to see how each resolves as the race goes on.

The quirky and oddball characters and their ever-changing, winding landscape go perfectly hand-in-hand. It’s always amusing when clearly bizarre fantasy worlds, characters, and events are treated very plainly within the story. The characters are simple but fun to follow along with, from a character who is a frog, to a character who follows the instructions of a magical coat, to a character simply looking for two missing cats. Along with the beautifully done artwork and sprawling pages of landscapes, it feels as though you are only getting the smallest look into this big, wild world you want to learn more about.

6. The Book Tour by Andi Watson

The Book Tour follows a rather unlucky new author as, not only is his debut book not selling well, but a string of murders is following his exact tour route, leaving all signs pointing at him as the culprit.

It’s a very dry but still incredibly entertaining and suspenseful story. It’s hilarious, quaint, and baffling to watch the poor man get hit with bad luck after bad luck, only for him to be very proper, if not completely lost, about the whole ordeal. There are also many moving parts and details going on in the background that make for a great murder mystery story, definitely deserving of a reread to connect all the pieces that might have been missed on the first read through (I know I definitely did).

7. Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge

A collection of 17 amazing short stories looking at a variety of characters and concepts. Everything from a woman pretending to be a surgeon, a karaoke party, a family killed in a car crash, and the creation of a hypothetical child.

My favorite stories of the bunch are “One Of My Students Is A Murderer… But Which?”, “Surprise Party”, “Album”, “Road Trip”, and “Soap Opera.” All of the stories in this comic are perfectly bite-sized looks into a variety of interesting visuals and concepts that keep you engaged from segment to segment.

CW: mild nudity

8. Flavor Girls by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky and Angel De Santiago

In Flavor Girls, a mysterious alien ship appears in Earth’s orbit, and its passengers cause death and destruction for life on earth. Luckily, a group of women dubbed “Flavor Girls” by their fans are gifted magical, fruit themed powers that aid them in fighting off the alien army. The newest, unexpected member of the group, however, is having trouble catching up.

By far one of the most visually stunning comics I have ever read. Very, very reminiscent of Sailor Moon in its characters, aesthetic, and story. This comic has some of my favorite character designs, the alien designs in particular are extremely fun to look at. Unlike the other comics on this list, it is not a complete story but at least it gives you something to look forward to!

CW: mild graphic violence

9. Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët

Last but absolutely not least, Beautiful Darkness is a surprisingly horrifying and violent story about cute and fun looking fairy-like characters trying to survive out in the woods. The less you know going in to this comic, the better.

The incredible beauty and meticulous detail of the environment in this comic lends itself well as a stark contrast to the horrific deaths littered throughout this story. It is bizarre watching how unfeeling and unbothered these cutesy fairytale creatures are with their friends dropping around them like flies, but it’s impossible to look away. Seeing how all of it shapes and warps the genuinely kind main character, Aurora, and the darker implications going on in the background make this a must read. By far one of the best openings to any comic I have ever read.

CW: gore, body horror

(That’s all I have for now! Hope to recommend more in the future ✌️)

#text #long post #excuse any typos I have been staring at this for too long #comic recommendations #book recommendations #beautiful darkness #flavor girls #Heaven no hell #birds of Maine #the book tour #eight lane runaways #coyote doggirl #afternoon at mcburgers #no one else

[wcdonaldo]

i'm like a doggirl but not one with a collar. i'm roaming around like a stray that keeps getting in brawls with cocky coyotes that think they're real gamers

[puppyboygf]

just learned "latrans" in canis latrans (coyote) means barking. doggirls UNITE!!!!

[bolly--quinn]

[I love how the creators of Tuca and Bertie went “we gave birds tits, we also gave plants tits, one is just about as realistic as the other”.

FYI, I just browsed the TVTropes page for the characters, I haven’t watched the show.]

Lisa Hanawalt has been humanizing flora and fauna since and before BJH and I eat it up everytime (I Want You and Coyote Doggirl, my beloved <3)

#lisa hanawalt #tuca and bertie #asks #i am such a big lisa hanawalt fan i go feral thinking about her art #she is the original horse girl and we sing her praises

[mi4011amandithewarathanthri]

Assessment 1

2. conduct research into their life stories

Lisa Hanawalt - life and work

Went to UCLA - graduated with a BA in arts in 2006

Born in California, USA

Her parents were Stanford biologists Philip Hanawalt and Graciela Spivak. Her mother was born and raised in Argentina by a family of Jewish refugees originally from Odessa.

Hanawalt discovered indie comics in high school.

“I read work by Renée French and Phoebe Gloeckner, and both of them really blew my mind, ’cause I was, like, here are these two women who are being so candid about their lives and their feelings and, like, how disgusting life is. Their comics are really grotesque in different ways, so that was a huge influence on me.” - Hanawalt 

After college, Hanawalt took a job as a secretary in Glendale, coming home at night to draw. The gallery-painter path that she’d envisioned didn’t pan out. “I was, like, ‘I’ll get solo shows in Chelsea, that’s what I’ll do!’ That didn’t happen, so I went back to comics,” she says. 

She is a former member of Pizza Island, a cartoonist's studio made up of only women in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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.

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. 

In 2012, she illustrated her first children's book, Benny's Brigade, published by McSweeney's and authored by Arthur Bradford. The book stars a tiny talking walrus, rescued by two sisters with a range of magical animals at the end of the quest. The book was named a "Wildest Book of the Year" by children's lit blog 100 Scope Notes and called "exuberant and imaginative" by Foreword Reviews.

In 2013, Drawn & 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.”

Made Bojack Horseman in 2014. 

BoJack Horseman won the 2016 Critics' Choice Award for Best Animated Series.

August 2016 - Tegan and Sara “HANG ON TO THE NIGHT” animated music video 

In 2016, Drawn & Quarterly published Hot Dog Taste Test. This book is a collection of comics and illustrations often featuring animal-people in vibrant watercolors. 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.”

On August 21, 2018, Hanawalt released a graphic novel with Drawn & Quarterly entitled Coyote Doggirl. Unlike her previous two, Coyote Doggirl features a singular narrative and follows its titular character and her trusty steed, Red, on their escape from a vengeful bulldog and his cronies. the book is about the tug between self-reliance and community.

Tuca and Bertie (2019) - immediately received critical acclaim and is one of her best works. More relatable that Bojack especially if you’re a woman. Dropped by Netflix after the first seasons and was picked up  by adult swim. 

Hanawalt is fascinated in particular by the ways that sex manifests in the animal kingdom. This is most present in Tuca and Bertie.

She currently co-hosts a podcast and is working on another season of Tuca and Bertie

[transpestilence]

oh nooo im a coyote that's gotten stuck in the henhouse and now my plump little ass and cunt are on display for everyone to see. hope no doggirls or werewolfgirls come and fuck me about it

#nsft

[coyotegirl-domestic-terrorism]

im like if a doggirl was a coyote

a coyotegirl if you may

[voxsymphonia]

System info!

[Tag: Name (pronouns) - Descriptions]

L: Lyra (she/they) - Canitaur doggirl otherkin, soft, sweet, and sensitive, fan of science & history, lover of world building

M: Max (she/he) - Spotted hyena therian, stone butch punk anarchist

S: Samantha (she/her) - Fallen angel, maternal protector

A: Azazel (she/her) - Demon girl, promiscuous extrovert, party girl

Q: QuickSight (shi/hir) - Black & white Chakat, gun nut & engineer, comes from an RP

R: Rosa (she/her) - little, 9, shy and scared

G: Galatea (she/it) - little, subservient doll

LP: Little Puppy (she/her) - little, golden retriever puppy therian, very young

Y: the Coyote (it/its) - agender coyote therian, very shy and skeptical, not a fan of humans

D: Dionysus (ask) - genderfluid god shard, visits when intoxicated

Homestuck Fictives

EB: June (they/she) - arrived in the system before going god tier, eventually became god tier through canon osmosis

TG: Dave (he/they) - introjected from pre-retcon timeline

GG: Jade (she/her)

TT: Rose (she/her)

CG: Karkat (he/him) - introjected from pre-retcon timeline

AG: Vriska [pre-retcon] (she/they)

GC: Terezi (they/she)

AC: Nepeta (they/she)

TA: Sollux (ey/em)

CC: Feferi (she/her)

AT: Tavros (he/they)

MC: Mituna (he/him)

#symphonysystem #systemintro #fictive #fictionkin #homestuck fictive #homestuck kin

[lunariarts]

finally made a trip to a library here and checked out some books!

ive read 2 today; Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt, and The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentine Fiore.

Coyote Doggirl is a short graphic novel and it was really beautiful. The watercolour country sides were so serene, and I found Coyote's journey very touching. She goes from isolated by social anxieties and running from her traumatic past, to confronting what them and finding the community and support she needs. I hope I can follow in her footsteps someday.

The Medium is the Massage is a book I wish i waited to read. It is really unconventional, a collage of ideas and imagery, and builds heavily off of McLuhan's earlier work Understanding Media. I found it fascinating, and I'm sure I will come back to it when I've finished his prior work (I also checked out Understanding Media but started with this one because it was shorter... oops lol).

I thought that McLuhan's insight into how culture is shaped by media, not its contents but the actual forms of media itself, deeply interesting. The book is looking ahead to the present day from the 60's and trying to predict how our generational media form, the internet and computers in general, would have shaped our culture. It is genuinely fascinating how accurate it is, at least in part, to things today and I'm excited to dig into the ideas in full.

#im trying to read more and learn and maybe I'll post about it sometimes #i have other books ive checked out and another on hold but im hesitant to mention them lest tumblr puts this post into those tags lol #idk if this is interesting to literally anyone lmao if you hated this just blacklist this next tag and i wont bother you again #zoeyreads

[todd--chavez]

From Lisa Hanawalt’s My Dumb Dirty Eyes. 

#lisa hanawalt #art #drawing #the bachelor #bojack horseman #tuca and bertie #my dumb dirty eyes #coyote doggirl #doodles #doodle #artists #girls #the bachelorette #tv #reality tv #reality tv shows #dumb

[bomberoesmipasion]

Coyote Doggirl.

Lisa Hanawalt

#comics #viñetas #bande dessinée #Lisa Hanawalt #coyote doggirl

[nprbooks]

BoJack Horseman producer Lisa Hanawalt is also the creator of charming graphic novels -- her latest, Coyote Doggirl, is about a dog-coyote-cowgirl and her trusty horse, on the run through a candy-colored fantasy Old West. Our critic Etelka Lehoczky says the effect of Hanawalt’s bright palette “is naïve, but deceptively so. If you think for a moment about the care, skill and patience it took to layer in each page's varied tones, you can see how seriously Hanawalt takes her project.  

Check out her full review here.

-- Petra

#books #reading #comics #graphic novels #book reviews #npr books #lisa hanawalt #coyote doggirl #bojack horseman

[horseman-bojack]

BoJack Horseman's Lisa Hanawalt on her new graphic novel, Coyote Doggirl

#bojack horseman #lisa hanawalt #coyote doggirl #the guardian #article

[princess-unipeg]

Coyote Doggirl cameo

#my posts #my post #lisa hanawalt #coyote doggirl #tuca and bertie season one #tuca & bertie #tuca and bertie

[mi4011amandithewarathanthri]

Final Storyboard Panels (Part 2)

Panel 18 - camera tracks her until she runs into a large version of Coyote Doggirl, startling her once more.

Panel 19 - top down view as we see her fall over. She looks defeated.

Panel 20 - camera begins to tilt as it travels from above her to under her.

Panel 21 - we now see her and her shadow from under the 'floor.' it looks similar to lying on a glass surface.

Panel 22 - camera zooms away to reveal and over the head of shot of Coyote Doggirl looking up at Lisa.

Panel 23 - wide shot of Coyote Doggirl climbing an invisible ladder up to Lisa.

Panel 24 - Coyote Doggirl comes up to Lisa, attempting to comfort her. Her doodle cloud has returned.

Panel 25 - Lisa moves away from Coyote Doggirl. there's tears in her eyes.

Panel 25 - She hugs her knees and begins crying. the doodle cloud grows larger and larger.

Panel 26 - the doodle cloud grows to fill the page and it starts raining.

Panel 27 - Close up of Lisa. We see Coyote Doggirl's legs as she enters the frame.

Panel 28 - Coyote Doggirl kneels down to comfort her. Lisa looks up at her.

Panel 29 - They hug as Lisa finally accepts Coyote Doggirl. The storm dissipates. Coyote Doggirl's watercolours bleed into the page, colouring Lisa and the whole scene.

End.

[comicsforgrownups]

Episode 89: Nichols, Utkin, Hanawalt, Tonatiuh

Subscribe on iTunes or RSS, or listen here. In this episode we review:

Flocks by L. Nichols

The King of Birds by Alexander Utkin

Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt

Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight by Duncan Tonatiuh

#a workers fight #duncan tonatiuh #Lisa Hanawalt #coyote doggirl #alexander utkin #the king of birds #l nichols #flocks #comics #comic review #comics review podcast