Oak Tree Comics

11/07/2025

🌸🌿 Oak Tree Comics is looking to hire an artist for a picture book. 🦥 ☀️ The envisioned art style blends modern comic book imagery with the warmth and kindness of a classic picture book. The story is about a mindful friendship, set in an Amazonian rainforest 📚

🌟 WHO CAN APPLY? 🌟
Anyone! Applicants should have a portfolio of picture book, comics, or sequential art that exhibits why they are a good fit for the position.

For more information about the project and full submission guidelines, 🔗 in bio.

Many thanks to for designing the artwork for this post 🙏

09/07/2025

☀️Calling all comics and children’s book writers and artists! Oak Tree Comics invites you to submit your story. 📚

🌿WHAT STORIES ARE WE LOOKING FOR?🌸

At Oak Tree Comics, we publish children’s books that speak up for the environment through imaginative storytelling. We are particularly interested in…

1) Picture books told through comics imagery
2) Young reader graphic novels
3) Middle-grade graphic novels

Got questions or ideas? For full submissions guidelines, 🔗 in bio.

Many thanks to for designing the artwork for this post 🙏☀️

25/06/2025

Stop by and say hello to author and Oak Tree Comics at the American Library Association Conference in Philadelphia — Booth #2474🔔🥨📚🎉

🌟WHAT: Enjoy the biggest library event of the year! Meet renowned authors, attend panels, and learn about the future of library sciences. This is a ticketed event.

🌏 WHERE: Oak Tree Comics is at booth #2474 in the Exhibit Hall. The event takes place at the Pennsylvania Conference Center: 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia

📅 WHEN: The Exhibit Hall is open this Friday through Monday with the following hours:

Friday | 5:30-7pm
Saturday | 9-5pm
Sunday | 9-5pm
Monday | 9-2pm

Hope to see you there! 🤓📚🎉

06/06/2025

Calling all Los Angeles writers! Oak Tree Comics invites you to submit your story for an anthology of children’s comics in support of wildfire relief. For submissions guidelines, please keep reading ⬇️

🌟PROJECT UPDATE: To date, we have selected 18 stories to be part of the anthology. To round out the book, we are hoping to find up to five more stories.

Structurally, the anthology will be divided into three sections, with stories about…

1️⃣ The fires
2️⃣ The ongoing relief efforts
3️⃣ And hopeful visions for the future

For section 1️⃣ (the fires), we are no longer accepting story submissions.

For section 2️⃣ (the relief efforts), we are hoping to find up to two more stories.

For section 3️⃣ (hopeful visions for the future), we are hoping to find up to three more stories.

🌟 OUR SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 🌟

🔘All story contributors must live in or be from the Los Angeles area.

🔘All stories must be comics intended for a middle-grade audience.

🔘All stories must be anticipated to be either 6 or 8 pages of comics in length.

🔘You do not have to be an illustrator to submit a story idea.

🔘To submit your story, please email 1) a cover letter AND 2) a synopsis of your story idea to info(at)oaktreecomics(dot)com.

Got questions? Please feel free to ask them in the comments 🙏

Also, a big thank you to for creating this coyote illustration!

04/06/2025

🌟Vote for your favorite cover! 🌟 It’s hard to believe but this is for our TENTH issue of Thorn the Unicorn! The issue’s titled “Out of the Labyrinth!”⚡️🦄

To check out the first volume of Thorn the Unicorn — 🔗 in bio!

02/06/2025

The latest issue of Thorn the Unicorn is now available as an ebook—🔗 in bio! 🎉

🎨 CREATIVE UPDATE 🎨

As we create the second volume of Thorn the Unicorn, we will be releasing the individual issues first as eBooks ($1.99 per issue).

and are currently hard at work respectively illustrating and lettering issue 10. Meanwhile, author is writing issues 11 through 14. The second volume will be a total of 7 issues, so we are fast approaching being halfway done creating it! We’ll have more creative updates for you soon 🦄☺️🎊📚

30/05/2025

The latest issue of Thorn the Unicorn is now available as an ebook—🔗 in bio to shop and read it! To check out the official cover reveal ➡️📚➡️

A big thanks to everyone who voted on the cover! We titled Issue 9 “Do You Speak Worm?” because if you know, you know 😁

Here’s to…

🎨 THE CREATIVE TEAM
Art by
Story by
Lettering by

…for making the world of Thorn ever more magical with every new issue. We can’t wait to share more adventures with everyone soon!

25/05/2025

🌟CONGRATS to the creative team of The Weird Animal Hour 📚 and all the other medalists 🥇🥈🥉 We won a silver medal for Best Juvenile/YA Non-fiction! Here’s a round of applause for the creators and their winning books ⬇️

🥇LIES MY TEACHER TAUGHT ME 🥇
By

🥈 THE WEIRD ANIMAL HOUR 🥈
Illustrated by
Written by
Edited and designed by

🥉THE AYEEE TO Z GUIDE TO ADULTING 🥉
By .z.grace_author

Also, a big THANK YOU to the Independent Publisher Book Awards for championing independently published literature deserving of greater recognition!

25/05/2025

🌟CONGRATS to team Thorn the Unicorn 📚 and all the other medalists 🥇🥈🥉 We won a bronze medal for Best Juvenile Fiction! Here’s a round of applause for the creators and their winning books ⬇️

🥇BEYOND MULBERY GLEN 🥇
Written by
Illustrated by

🥈 VERNON POCHÉ &THE GHOSTS OF NEW ORLEANS
By

🥉THORN THE UNICORN 🥉
Illustrated by
Written by
Lettering by
With creative direction by

Also, a big THANK YOU to the Independent Publisher Book Awards for championing independently published literature deserving of greater recognition!

21/05/2025

🌟Are you a Los Angeles artist? Here is a PAID opportunity that also gives back to the community ⬇️❤️‍🩹

We’re publishing an anthology of comics in support of wildfire relief. For the anthology, we have received several stories from writers who would like to be paired with artists. If collaborating on a comic interests you, please send your artist portfolio by email to info(at)oaktreecomics(dot)com along with a brief cover letter.

To read more about the project, 🔗 in bio!

🙏 to for designing this graphic and to for the original art!

21/05/2025

Want to learn more about our comics anthology in support of wildfire relief? You can here ☺️⬇️❤️‍🩹

The following is an interview with Josh Oaktree (founder, Oak Tree Comics) regarding Oak Tree Comics' call for creator submissions for the We Are Los Angeles:

01/05/2025

Calling all Los Angeles writers and artists! Oak Tree Comics invites you to submit your story for an anthology of children’s comics in support of wildfire relief. For more information about the project, pay rates, and submission guidelines, 🔗in bio

Art by 🙏