This nicely done hardcover collection from Drawn and Quarterly presents 201 four-panel, black & white, pen & ink comicstrips from the mental landscape of Cedar Van Tassel.

Whether they're reading, on the computer, drinking coffee, lounging at home, standing around, walking somewhere, on a road trip, or hanging around with friends like Ballnut and Tuber, Appleguy and Beefwood are talking, about this that or the other thing, all of which is weirdly engaging.

A bit like an absurdist, information age take on The Odd Couple, Appleguy and Beefwood also reminds us a bit of Drew Lerman's Snake Creek, only with a diverging epistemological framework.

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Here's what a pair of his peers have to say about it:

"Van Tassel writes and draws like a prairie grass root system in the deep soil of weird America. Cosmic and funny and friendly and terrifying, like Cow Tools, or like a face in a tree trunk that blinks and says something. Katchor drives a Tuff-bilt. This book is killer, a triumph." –Kevin Huizenga, The River at Night

"I’ll be danged if these aren’t some of the best comics around right now… funny, literate, sensitive, weird, joyful... and Van Tassel has perfect cartoonist’s timing. These things are great!"–John Porcellino, King-Cat