Unlike other towering figures of the animated-sitcom world like Matt Groening, Seth MacFarlane, or Mike Judge, Raphael Bob-Waksberg is in the odd position of having created multiple cartoon shows without a background as an animator.

This lends his output an impressive eclecticism: Bojack Horseman, which looks a bit (but doesn’t much act) like Mike Judge’s style of light, clean-line caricature; Undone, a rotoscoped marvel befitting its trippy subject matter; and now Long Story Short, a time-hopping family saga that feels a bit like a flip through a particularly active and whimsical sketchbook, with playful loops of curly hair and scribbles of handmade-looking details.

Long Story Short, debuting on Netflix Aug. 22, also brings to mind both graphic memoirs and traditional novels, an ambit

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