Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, 272 pages. $32. Credit: Courtesy The Bolton cartoonist’s ...

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The latest book from Vermont cartoonist Alison Bechdel is a funny reflection on her life in late middle age. “Spent: A Comic Novel” lies somewhere between fiction, memoir and a commentary on ...

All gifts triple matched! Donate today to support local nonprofit news for Vermont. All gifts triple matched! Donate today to support local nonprofit news for Vermont. Vermont cartoonist Alison ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — An illustrator whose memoir and graphic novel about growing up with a bisexual father was adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical has been ...

In Spent, the graphic novelist confronts aging, politics, sex, and what it means to succeed under capitalism. Excerpted from the book Spent, provided courtesy of ...

One weekend in 1986, on a jaunt in a rented cabin with her soon-to-be-ex-lover, Alison Bechdel, a virtually unknown cartoonist in her twenties living in the Twin Cities, had an anxiety attack. The ...