"In a new collection of Hanawalt's early minicomic work, I Want You, you can see the cartoonist's sensibilities -- that penchant for slamming the manic and mundane into each other, to see what happens -- coalescing into an aesthetic that belongs to her and her alone." --Glen Weldon, NPR "The shorts collected in the book also preview the kind of work that would feature in Hanawalt's collections Hot Dog Taste Test and My Dumb Dirty Eyes , combining observational comedy, surrealist flights of fancy and unexpected beauty into something that is uniquely Hanawalt, and relentlessly funny." -- The Hollywood Reporter "Hanawalt's art has always explored the anxieties, humiliations, and vulnerabilities that come with living in a human body. Its underlying honesty is what continues to strike a chord with readers and viewers." -- Vox "Hanawalt is a master of excess, and her early work is a marvel." -- San Francisco Weekly "A brilliant collection from an audacious and boldly inventive cartoonist with a distinct and necessary perspective." -- Library Journal , Starred Review "[These comics] hit as freshly funny and subversive, and will appeal to dedicated fans of Hanawalt's peculiar oeuvre as well as those just getting an introduction." -- Publishers Weekly "Her artfully drawn, frequently dark, generally hilarious panels are characterised by their distinctive use of an all-animal cast, in which universal bummers like self-doubt, loneliness, putting-your-foot-in-it, intimacy struggles and general low-level misery are played out with a profound sense of empathy and no shortage of gross-out humour.

" -- Elephant "Hanawalt is a woman of many talents. I Want You is a compilation of Hanawalt's early mini comics, illustrations, and art. It is her at the very beginning of it all." -- The Rumpus.