Lisa Hanawalt

Lisa Hanawalt (born June 19, 1983) is an American illustrator and cartoonist. She is known for her work as a production designer and producer of the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman, and co-hosts the podcast Baby Geniuses with comedian Emily Heller. In February 2018, Netflix ordered a 10-episode animated series, Tuca & Bertie, created by Hanawalt. The series will be "a comedy about the friendship of two 30-year-old bird women who live in the same apartment building: Tuca, a cocky, care-free toucan and Bertie, an anxious, daydreaming songbird". It will star Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong in the leading roles. 2Life and career Hanawalt was born in Palo Alto, California, to Stanford biologists Philip Hanawalt and Graciela Spivak. Her mother was born and raised in Argentina, in a family of Jewish refugees originally from Odessa. Hanawalt graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006, and she lived in New York City from 2009 until 2014, when she returned to California. She is a former member of Pizza Island, a cartoonist's studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn which included cartoonists Kate Beaton, Domitille Collardey, Sarah Glidden, Meredith Gran, and Julia Wertz.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 review