For this third-annual edition, we once again tap into a beloved natural resource in Vermont. Nope, not cheese or beer. Cartoonists: the artists who make our stories come alive with drawings and eliminate a whole lot of words. We called upon a few cartoonists in neighboring New Hampshire, too, but close to the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. That school has made the area a magnet for emerging cartoon talent, joining the likes of Vermont-based New Yorker contributors Harry Bliss and Edward Koren — Vermont’s current cartoonist laureate — as well as the state’s first cartoonist laureate, James Kochalka. Other contributors comprise a diverse group of freelancers, teachers and comics-industry veterans. Equally diverse are the stories they’ve illustrated, from the serious to the silly. Hope you enjoy them.

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This article appears in The Cartoon Issue 2015.

Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont...