Whoops: Chad Carpenter Named Cartoon Laureate In ‘08 Thank you to the readers that wrote in on occasion of yesterday's story about James Kochalka being named Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont to remind me that Chad Carpenter was named a cartoon laureate by the Alaskan legislature in 2008. I can understand why this wouldn't come to mind for those putting together the Kochalka honorific -- they are similarly-named and intended honors but function very differently on the ground in the sense that one's a singular honor and the other is more of a program -- but there's certainly no excuse for my not being thorough and remembering this fact. I blame a lifetime of reading comic books. Still, if this somehow leads one day to the widespread madness of comics people moving across the continental U.S. in the hopes of scoring a sweet, state gig over less-talented homegrown creators, I'm even more for it than I am already.
Thank you to the readers that wrote in on occasion of 
