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<em>Coyote Doggirl</em> Gives the Western a Whimsical, Watercolor Spin

A new graphic novel from the artist Lisa Hanawalt (<em>BoJack Horseman</em>) gives an old genre the kind of heroine it’s never seen before.
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“Shit. We are being pursued by guys. If you get tired or break a leg I will be fuckin’ screwed.” So begins , the new Western-adventure graphic novel from the artist and illustrator Lisa Hanawalt. Speaking is the story’s titular magenta-colored canine-person; she’s addressing her beloved horse, Red, as the two pause on a grassy hill and look to the horizon. There, they spy the people hunting them: tiny, ominous silhouettes of horseback figures in 10-gallon hats. “You could easily kill us both, if you wanted to,” Coyote Doggirl muses aloud to her companion as he carries them

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