Cartoonist Alison Bechdel Recalls Her Friendship With Ed Koren

If you’d told me as a kid that one day I’d be friends with the guy who drew the shaggy creatures in the New Yorker, I would have plotzed (word I learned in the New Yorker). I had no idea Ed Karen lived in Vermont when i moved here in 1990.

by Alison BechdelApril 19, 2023July 7, 2025

This article appears in Apr 19-25, 2023.

Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel is a Vermont-based cartoonist and author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic — a graphic memoir turned Tony-winning Broadway musical. From 1983 to 2008 she drew the popular strip “Dykes to Watch Out For," which ran in publications across... More by Alison Bechdel

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