Comics and Queerness in Vermont and Beyond with Tillie Walden
In 2024, Tillie gave a talk for our Snapshot program where she presented a look at the intersection of indie comics with queer identity through her many graphic novels—from science fiction to memoir to historical retelling. She explores the process and power of visual narrative and shares why comics are relevant to Vermonters and everyone else.
The talk includes a discussion about the origins of Charity and Sylvia.
Drawing on the Archive: Tillie Walden’s Charity and Sylvia
From the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, a short video that explores the story behind the exhibition, Drawing on the Archive: Tillie Walden’s Charity and Sylvia.
Alison Bechdel and Tillie Walden at The Center for Cartoon Studies
Celebrating CCS’s 20th Anniversary, two of Vermont’s most acclaimed cartoonists, Alison Bechdel and Tillie Walden ‘16, shared the stage for a rare public conversation about art, place, and the ways Vermont has shaped their work. Both artists have served as Vermont Cartoonist Laureate, and both have made international contributions to the art of comics—Bechdel through her groundbreaking memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother?, and Walden through her Eisner Award–winning memoir, Spinning, and space romance, On a Sunbeam.
Thank you to Junction Arts & Media for recording these presentations!
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Couple in Early Vermont
Drawing from the Sheldon Museum collections, archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart presents the story of two extraordinary women, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, who were accepted in early 19th-century rural Vermont as a married couple.
