In 2019, Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg released a hilarious collection of stories called Someone Who Will Love You in All Its Weathered Glory – something like someone who loves you as gloriously as you are as damaged as you are. There are stories in which the bride and groom try to organize an impossible wedding – because there are relatives and friends who give their opinions on all kinds of issues, and they do it so insistently that they even decide how many goats to sacrifice in the end. day because wouldn’t it be a good idea to sacrifice a goat?
Bojack Horseman is an animated television series for enlightened adults who love to bite hard, starring a once famous depressed and alcoholic horse. The horse starred in the legendary family sit-com Horsin’ Around, in a distant past that seemed like it never existed.
As the series begins, Bojack, the horse’s name, tries to get back into the game by letting an aspiring writer – or better yet, a not-so-famous ghostwriter – write his memoirs. The bojack idea was Bob-Waksberg’s, but he wasn’t the one pulling the horse in question. The horse was drawn by Lisa Hanawalt, a brilliant student of the autobiographical comic’s great punk lady, Julie Doucet.
Doucet is 57 years old. She was born in Montreal, and without her, it would have taken longer for the female autobiographical comic to discover her own wild side than it did. Doucet grew up reading Robert Crumb and when he started drawing, he decided to follow in his unorthodox footsteps. That it would be said from below, arrogantly and instinctively. Although pioneering, his core Diario de Nueva York (Inrevés Ediciones) is inexplicably impossible to find in Spain today, because if one’s desire is to escape the bonds of a system, the punk spirit he exudes must once again assert itself, this seemingly friendly but one that does not rule except submissive self-exploitation, that gives new meaning to DIY.
History is always written in capital letters. It is also written on the margins or exactly from them. If it weren’t for Julie Doucet and her audacity—the way she turned everything she did in Diario de Nueva York and her subsequent diaries into a handful of candidly candid cartoons—female desire would not have found its way to comics. he wouldn’t have done it that way, and I Want You might never have happened. I Want You is the volume compiling Lisa Hanawalt’s first mini-comic. An original version of Bojack Horseman appears on them. Not only is he a famous actor in them, he’s just an anthropomorphic horse with an irresistible fear of birds.
His obsession with animals, indeed his enjoyment of them, never detracts him from what is human, what is arrogant, how unclean his behavior is. On the contrary. In a way, it brings back to the underground what it might have lost with the disappearance of the famous and voluptuous cat Gato Fritz, which Crumb created to narrate the feast of -sexual-freedom in the late 60s.
As in a set of gears or the fragmentary narrative of a mutant outcome—because that thing is intent on continuing, someone must write History in capital letters—the publications and stamps that select them take the reins of what? happens in the margins and this turns every little step of a writer or a writer into a new path for the rest.
Now retired from comics and fed up with the impossibility of making a living with anything like that, Doucet published his first comic in Crumb’s Weirdo magazine, and Hanawalt removed it from his own publishing company, Drawn & Quaterly. The edition that Chris Oliveros set up in Montreal at the age of 23. Yes, that’s where Doucet came from, who published his legendary Dirty Plotte thanks to Oliveros. Meanwhile, she Hanawalt, the daughter of biologists and born in Palo Alto, California, in 1983 and whose Coyote Doggirl (Astiberri) can be read in Spain, has reached the mainstream—Netflix and HBO Max—with Tuca. Bertie—the drama about a toucan and a songbird living together—is just one of those giant little strides in history in another direction.