Johnny Appleseed

Paul Buhle, formerly Senior Lecturer at Brown University, produces radical comics, has written and edited many books, and is the co-editor, most recently, of It Started in Wisconsin. He lives in Madison.Noah Van Sciver was born on July 7, 1984, and currently resides in Denver, CO. . His work has appeared in Mad magazine, Sunstone, The Comics Journal, Mome, and numerous comics anthologies. With Mari Jo Buhle, he is the coeditor of the

It differentiates between the history and the half-myths of Johnny Appleseed’s life and work: His apples, for instance, were prized for many reasons, but none more so than for the making of hard cider. Black & white illustrations throughout. This is a graphic biography of the green dreamer of the American Frontier, the legendary John Chapman, from Brown University scholar Paul Buhle (Red Rosa) and award-winning cartoonist Noah Van Sciver (The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln). John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, made himself the stuff of legend by spreading the seeds of apple trees from Wiscons

He lives in Madison.Noah Van Sciver was born on July 7, 1984, and currently resides in Denver, CO. With Mari Jo Buhle, he is the coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. . His work has appeared in Mad magazine, Sunstone, The Comics Journal, Mome, and numerous comics anthologies. About the Author Paul Buhle, formerly Senior Lecturer at Brown University, produces radical comics, has written and edited many books, and is the co-editor, most recently, of It Started in Wisconsin