I Can't Stop Thinking About Horses And Sex by Lisa Hanawalt

iographical Note:
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: M y Dirty Dumb Eyes, Hot Dog Taste Test, Coyote Doggirl, and I Want You. Her fifth book, I Can't Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex comes out later this fall.

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"I Can't Stop represents the culmination of Hanawalt's shtick for truth-telling via colorful anthropomorphized characters."-- LA Times

"As weird, bawdy, and unexpectedly heartbreaking as one might expect from such a sui generis talent."-- Vulture

"Hanawalt raises the dick joke to a fine art."-- Killian Fox, The Observer

"In her inimitable style--which has reformed the brains of so many into a technicolor world of anthropomorphized analogs for every type you've ever met, including the ones you wish you hadn't--Lisa Hanawalt draws and writes the things we all wish we could say: about love, loss, and what it feels like to be in a human body."-- Lena Dunham

"Ironies of life: Here she's all obsessed with horses and riding horses, and she has this big ass, which she openly admits to and draws...and here I am obsessed with women with big asses and wanting to jump on them and ride them like horses. I guess I should write back to Lisa and ask her if she'd give me a ride on her big ass. She'd probably say no. Ironies of life."-- R. Crumb

"I can't stop thinking about how this is the best and funniest and most vulnerable book about being a horny girl who loves both horses and Kevin Costner that I have ever read."-- Samantha Irby

"I couldn't put this book down! I read it in one night which felt like a sleepover with a tender, bold, hilarious friend who knew everything about me; nothing was shameful when we were together."-- Miranda July

"It's a privilege to be let into an artist's mind as they navigate big transitions. It's a lot neater to package up an experience as "completed," the lesson learned, hard-won thesis unveiled. Hanawalt does none of that here. In conclusion: Sarah Polley's indie darling Take This Waltz (2011) but with Thelwellian Fjords (that's a type of horse)."-- Jillian Tamaki

"Horny and charming and suffused with the poignancy of wanting."-- Maris Kreizman, Literary Hub

"A riot of colour... luridly alive with Hanawalt's particular brand of charming weirdness."-- Lucy Scholes, Financial Times

"Exuberant and unexpected, this is beautiful, sexy, gross, and altogether a joy to experience."-- Annie Bostrom, Booklist Starred Review

"Hilarious and poignant... the strength of her comedic chops makes the more harrowing material hit even harder."-- Oliver Sava, The AV Club

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"Bodies -- human, equine and beyond -- fascinate Hanawalt, who dares us to imagine what it would be like to find increasingly ridiculous things sexy... Hanawalt's jokey vignettes and colorful animal drawings belie a very serious narrative precision."--Sam Thielman, The New York Times

From the creative mind behind Bojack Horseman and Tuca & Bertie comes a fragmented memoir -- poignant, punchy, and sometimes just plain gross!

I Can't Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex marks the long-awaited return of Tuca & Bertie creator and BoJack Horseman producer/production designer Lisa Hanawalt to comics. This is the honest, silly, horny and vulnerable memoir of a horse girl, now in her forties and reflecting back on a lifetime of obsessions.

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

Review Citations:

• Library Journal 08/01/2026 pg. 77 (EAN 9781770469129, Hardcover)
• Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2026 (EAN 9781770469129, Hardcover)
• Publishers Weekly 09/28/2026 (EAN 9781770469129, Hardcover)
• Booklist 10/01/2026 (EAN 9781770469129, Hardcover) - *Starred Review