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'''Steven Appleby''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|small|RDI}} (born 27 January 1956) is an absurdist cartoonist, illustrator and artist living in Britain. She is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada.<ref name="Sybertooth">{{cite web|url=http://www.sybertooth.ca/publishing/stevenappleby.htm|title=Steven Appleby - Author Artist Illustrator Cartoonist|website=www.sybertooth.ca|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=15 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115135615/http://www.sybertooth.ca/publishing/stevenappleby.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Her publisher describes her humour as "observational or absurd, with a keen sense of the turmoil of fear and obsession that teems beneath the respectable exterior of most of us."<ref name="Sybertooth" />

Her work first appeared in the ''[[New Musical Express]]'' in 1984 with the ''[[Rockets Passing Overhead]]'' comic strip about the character [[Captain Star]], which also appeared in ''[[The Observer]]'', ''[[Die Zeit|Zeit Magazin]]'' (Germany), as well as other newspapers and comics in the UK, Europe and America. Other comic strips followed in many publications including ''[[The Times]]'', the ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' and ''[[The Guardian]]''. Appleby’s work has also appeared on album covers, most notably ''[[Trompe le Monde]]'' by the [[Pixies (band)|Pixies]].

Her comic strip ''Steven Appleby's Normal Life'' was translated into German and published in ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'', and also made into a radio series for BBC Radio 4. An earlier comic strip, ''Small Birds Singing'', ran for eight years in ''The Times''.

Appleby has also had numerous exhibitions of drawings and paintings, written and drawn many books, and collaborated on a musical play, ''Crocs In Frocks''.