Graphic Novel Tells Netflix’s Lady Dynamite! Through The Eyes Of Dogs

Lady Dynamite is a Netflix TV sequence starring Maria Bamford, loosely primarily based on her life, and created by Pam Brady and Mitch Hurwitz, cancelled after two sequence in 2017. It advised the story of humorist/actor Maria Bamford transferring again to Los Angeles after spending six months away in restoration for bipolar dysfunction and makes an attempt to construct up her life from scratch with the assistance of her agent Bruce Ben-Bacharach performed by Fred Melamed.

And now Fantagraphics is to publish Hogbook And Lazer Eyes, a brand new graphic novel by Maria Bamford and Scott Marvel Cassidy.

Fans of Maria Bamford’s acclaimed quasi-autobiographical Lady Dynamite Netflix sequence already know of her romance with LA painter Scott Marvel Cassidy, in addition to her droll pug sidekicks Blueberry and Bert. Now the story has been recounted within the graphic novella Hogbook and Lazer Eyes, written by Bamford/Cassidy, drawn by Cassidy, and all advised by the rescue canine they’ve adopted. For these unfamiliar with the story, newly single fortysomethings Maria Bamford and Scott Cassidy every signed up on the relationship website OkCupid, beneath the respective usernames “Hogbook” and “Lazer Eyes.” They went on a date, after which one other, and shortly, regardless of a historical past of Bipolar II dysfunction and unhealthy relationships for every of them, they fell in love and were married in 2015. We view all of this by way of the prism of their pug housemates, together with Blueberry and Bert (who has an unnatural obsession with Michael Flatley of “Riverdance” fame), and the aged bonded pair Betty and Arnold (who recount their star flip as interplanetary canine scientists within the second season of Lady Dynamite).

“As a dog lover, and as a comics fan, I was immediately charmed by Hogbook And Lazer Eyes from almost the first page,” says Fantagraphics Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds. “Maria and Scott have crafted something as sweet and beautiful as it is laugh out loud funny.”

Hogbook And Lazer Eyes shall be launched in June 2023.