• Courtesy of Alison Bechdel

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

Other Finalists

• Harry Bliss
• Rachel Lindsay
• Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr.