Best cartoonist
Alison Bechdel
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Alison Bechdel — From her long-running comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For" to her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic — adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical — the current cartoonist laureate of Vermont has an impressive oeuvre.
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