Missed It: Alison Bechdel Named Vermont’s Third Cartoonist Laureate I didn't miss it so much as I tweeted about it and forgot to put something up on this site. Bechdel -- eminently qualified -- follows Ed Koren and James Kochalka. That's been a great program for Vermont: tons of publicity building into their image as an island of cool, cultural calm in a raging sea of internalized politics. I don't think it will work for them if a bunch of states do it, but right now it's gold.
