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Cartoonist James Kochalka Designs Beer Can for Magic Hat

Hannah Palmer EganJuly 25, 2018November 13, 2023

Credit: Courtesy of Magic Hat Brewing

In 2011, James Kochalka made history by becoming Vermont’s first cartoonist laureate. Now, the Burlington comic-book author and performer will again be immortalized … on a beer can of his own design.

On Friday, July 27, Kochalka will be at Magic Hat Brewing for the release of a floral, peppery farmhouse ale called Local Rocker in his honor. The beer is the latest in the brewery’s series of Vermont-only brews.

The original print version of this article was headlined “Crumbs”

This article appears in The Adirondack Issue 2018.

Hannah Palmer Egan

Hannah Palmer Egan was a Seven Days food writer from 2014-2019. She was a 2017 James Beard Journalism Award finalist for her coverage of Vermont's food and agriculture industries, and received food writing awards from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. She lives in northeast Pennsylvania with her family, where she works in the outdoor lifestyle and adventure tourism industry. More by Hannah Palmer Egan

2 replies on “Cartoonist James Kochalka Designs Beer Can for Magic Hat”

Dan Harris says:

July 26, 2018 at 8:51 am

Aaaaand… the shark has been jumped.
G Chesterton says:

August 16, 2018 at 9:14 pm

Remember when James Kochalka published a cartoon depicting a local woman’s severed head?

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