Tillie Walden is the award-winning, Vermont-based cartoonist and author of Spinning and On a Sunbeam. Tillie served as Vermont’s Fifth Cartoonist Laureate from April 2023 to April 2026.
She won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work at 22 years old, for her graphic memoir Spinning, making her one of the youngest Eisner Award winners ever. Her work includes a graphic novel trilogy featuring The Walking Dead character Clementine and two middle grade graphic novels created with musicians Tegan and Sara. She is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) in White River Junction and became a professor at CCS in 2021.
Two of Walden’s comics were featured in our Vermont Reads choice for 2022, The Most Costly Journey: “A New Kind of Work (The Story of Delmar),” and “What I’ve Planned Here (The Story of Lara).”
Articles about Tillie Walden
- Publisher’s Weekly, January 23, 2026
To kick off our spring comics preview issue, we talk with the Eisner winner about her first graphic novel for adults, a queer love story set in 19th-century Vermont and one of our top picks of the season. - The Vault of Culture, June 23, 2020
On Comics: The Universe is Watching: Backgrounds in Tillie Walden’s On a Sunbeam (2018) - Lambda Literary Review, October 8, 2017
Tillie Walden on Her New Memoir and Being a Lesbian in the Figure Skating World
