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And it's even further proof of Hanawalt's peculiar genius, her ability to access difficult truths in the most absurd ways possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003e Nylon\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHanawalt turns the Western genre into a shared joke, giving its too-serious elements an absurdist spin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003e NPR\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn introvert’s paean to the pleasures of being alone [and] a love-letter deconstruction of the modern Cormac McCarthy-inspired Westerns that still place a premium on machismo and male violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003e Molly Lambert, The New Yorker\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gender-bending, dreamy reinterpretation of the classic Western from Lisa Hanawalt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003e London Free Press\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt once a rousing escapade, a celebration of fierce independence, an exploration of female empowerment, and the clash among foreign cultures, yet consistently laugh-out-loud funny. 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Published by Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 120 pages, Color, 2013. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSHARPLY OBSERVANT, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY COMICS FROM THE BELIEVER CARTOONIST AND NEW YORK TIMES ILLUSTRATOR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Dirty Dumb Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e is the highly anticipated debut collection from award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt. 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