Book Launch - Cedar Van Tassel!

Join Kansas cartoonist Cedar Van Tassel as he launches his debut comic strip collection, Appleguy & Beefwood at Red Fern Booksellers in Salina on Saturday, May 30th in conversation with Grant Snider from 5 to 7 pm. Light refreshments will be served. This event is FREE to attend for all!

Appleguy & Beefwood’s rapid-fire dialogue and tightly wound humor use rural agriculture as a stepping-off point, to tackle climate change, small-town politics, psychedelics, mysticism, and friendship. This serial buddy comedy 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.

Grant Snider is the author of the nationally bestselling Poetry Comics series and the upcoming middle grade novel The Year I Stopped Drawing. His Incidental Comics have been featured in the Kansas City Star, The New York Times, and The Best American Comics anthology. Grant lives in Wichita, Kansas, with family, where he also works as an orthodontist.