Alison Bechdel

Beloved best-selling author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel encourages laughter, introspection and passion for politics with presentations of her new work of autofiction, Spent, at the Norwich Congregational Church and Bear Pond Books in Montpelier. Local bookworms turn out to hear the comic master — who also penned Fun Home, the memoir turned Tony Award-winning musical — discuss her latest cartoon creation. Featuring her doppelgänger as an existentially tapped-out goat sanctuary owner in Vermont, the graphic novel unflinchingly taps into topical themes of climate change and civil unrest. As asserted by the New York Times Book Review, "nobody does it better" than Bechdel.