Appleguy and Beefwood, Cedar Van Tassel
200 pages in black and white, 17.65 x 2.41 x 18.16 cm, Drawn & Quarterly May 2026.
Comedy in a series of friends like no other, by Cedar Van Tassel. The author has created a new series of cartoons of the modern era: a real gem in a genre undervalued in the world of comics -- the serial comedy of friends... Taking rural agriculture as its starting point, it addresses climate change, small-town politics, psychedelics, mysticism and friendship. The fast-paced dialogues and humorous humor of "Appleguy and Beefwood" are reminiscent of classic works by friends as varied as "Calvin and Hobbes" or "Mutt and Jeff". Van Tassel's energetic and delightfully eccentric characters walk and talk as the world grows, both physically and spiritually, around them. This accessible and hilarious take on the existential and the esoteric distills the absurdities of modern everyday life into four panels with direct humor and an insightful eye. "Appleguy and Beefwood," by Cedar Van Tassel, Drawn & Quarterly, May 2026.
