Illustrator and award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt was born and raised in Palo Alto, California and graduated from UCLA with an art degree in 2006. Though originally headed into the fine art world, the comics-form collaboration Tip Me Over, Pour Me Out led to Hanawalt self-publishing the minicomics It’s Sexy When People Know Your Nameand the 2009 Ignatz Award – winning Stay Away from Other People. Now a member of the Pizza Island cartoonists’ collective in New York, she has won Ignatz and Stumptown awards for her series I Want You (published by both Buenaventura and Pigeon Press) and has illustrated for the New York Times, Chronicle Books, Glamour, Vice magazine, thePortland Mercury, and The Believer, among others. Her most recent work is an upcoming children’s book for McSweeney’s.
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