Pop-up: Lisa Hanawalt

Lisa Hanawalt reads from her new memoir I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex at Portland Art Museum in the Prints & Drawings gallery (Level 0, Room 007), paired with Karen Tossavainen, Roy Riding Mars, Lorinda Riding Venus.

About I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex:

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

A deliciously candid and juicy exploration of platonic and romantic fixations, heartbreak, and the allure of horses.

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.