Taproot: A Story About A Gardener and A Ghost

About Keezy Young

Keezy Young is a queer comic artist and illustrator from the Pacific Northwest currently in Seattle WA. They grew up drawing on their walls stealing a few extra chapters by nightlight after bedtime making graveyards for lost animals in the forest with their brother and sister and adding monsters and flowers to the margins of every homework assignment. Any opportunity to con their teachers into letting them illustrate a book report instead of writing one was taken. Although their art is self-taught they credit Digimon Hiromu Arakawa Trina Schart Hyman Arthur Rackham and Studio Ghibli as important influences.   Today Keezy writes draws and designs their own young adult comics. Their stories are cute eerie and often dark but almost always hopeful at their core. Their work is character-focused and they use action romance and mystery to explore LGBTQIA characters and themes since those are the stories they always looked for growing up but could rarely find.