The Legend of Sweet William, Vermont Troubadour

Lester Esso is a working underground cartoonist who was first published in the Chicago Seed in 1968, is a happy family man, enjoys tropical water, lost causes, old cars, weird guitars and ancient Egypt. To follow "The Adventures of Sweet William," see billybratcher.com More by Lester Esso

Staff Writer Ken Picard is a senior staff writer at Seven Days. A Long Island, N.Y., native who moved to Vermont from Missoula, Mont., he was hired in 2002 as Seven Days’ first staff writer, to help create a news department. Ken has since won numerous regional and national awards for his features, profiles and investigative stories and had his work picked up by international news outlets. He was the first journalist to shine a light on the thousands of undocumented workers in Vermont’s dairy... More by Ken Picard