Note: We're a bit on the short side due to technical difficulties with the recording, but the audio is largely un-impacted.
The role the cartoonist laureate is not wholly defined, allowing its representative to make the position their own. Tillie Walden is the fourth person to hold the title, preceded by Rick Veitch, Alison Bechdel, Edward Koren, and James Kochalka. Given the breadth of the work composed by the aforementioned named, it's probably best to let each artist make it their own. For Walden, honoring the title meant long hours in a local history museum, compiling her latest, Charity and Sylvia, a biography honoring the legacy of a pioneering queer couple.
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