Cedar Van Tassel Illustrator & Author

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.