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Author_Cedar Van Tassel
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farm comics
gift
horticulture
humor comics
philosophy
plants
strip comics
talking
Product details
- ISBN 9781770468436
- Dimensions: 146 x 149mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2026
- Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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A serial buddy comedy like no other from the mind of Cedar Van Tassel. Cartoonist Cedar Van Tassel has created the great new comic strip of the modern era: a perfect jewel in an underappreciated genre in the comics field the serial buddy comedy. Using rural agriculture as a stepping-off point, he tackles climate change, small-town politics, psychedelics, mysticism, and friendship. Appleguy and Beefwood s rapid-fire dialogue and tightly wound humour is reminiscent of classic buddy comics as wide-ranging as Calvin and Hobbes or Mutt and Jeff. Van Tassel s wiry, delightfully jagged characters walk and talk as the world grows both physically and spiritually around them. This approachably hilarious take on the existential and esoteric distills the absurdities of the modern everyday into four panels with forthright wit and a discerning eye.
Cedar Van Tassel was born in Saline County, Kansas in 1999. He started drawing Appleguy as a comic strip for the Marlboro College student newspaper, and started publishing it regularly as a weekly Instagram comic in 2022. His work has been published in comics anthologies like CRAM and Frankenstein Magazine. A lifelong plant and prairie lover, he does work on ecological restoration projects throughout the Great Plains. He lives in Gypsum, Kansas.
