On a recent visit to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator and showrunner of the Netflix animated series “BoJack Horseman,” was staring quizzically at a glass-and-concrete art piece titled “Slab Foundation With Glass Opening #2.”
“I’m interested in the art in the glass part of it, but I find the rest of it a little opaque,” he told the cartoonist and former “BoJack” production designer Lisa Hanawalt, who was hanging out with him that day.
“I want to touch this so bad,” she said.
“Well, just go outside and touch the sidewalk,” Bob-Waksberg replied.
“I touched a Monet once,” she answered. “It looked so touchable that I just walked up and went, boop. And everyone was like, ‘Nooo!’”
“I don’t regret it,” she continued. “It was worth it just to feel how chunky it was.”
Longtime collaborators, though still in their early 40s, their latest effort is “Long Story Short,” a Netflix animated series about the Schwoopers, a dysfunctional family of five living in Northern California. Premiering on Friday, the series is Bob-Waksberg’s first solo creation since “BoJack,” with original art by Hanawalt, the show’s supervising producer. The voice cast features several “BoJack” alumni, including Lisa Edelstein (“House”) as the family matriarch and Abbi Jacobson (“Broad City”) as Shira Schwooper, the middle sibling.
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