Oak Tree Comics

🗯️ 1 Week Until Comic Con! 🎉

If you’re at the show, come say hi to author Josh Oaktree and Comics — Booth N19 in Artist Alley!

#comicconla

Oak Tree Comics is looking to hire an artist for a picture book!

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

www.oaktreecomics.com/artist-submissions

🎨: by @keekihanu.bsky.social

Calling all writers! We’re looking for stories that speak up for the environment with imagination. For more info, 🔗 in bio

www.oaktreecomics.con/submissions

🙏 to @keekihanu.bsky.social for designing this post

Stop by and say hello to author Josh Oaktree and Oak Tree Comics this weekend 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 🤓

🌟CONGRATS to our book The Weird Animal Hour 📚 and all the other @ippyawards medalists 🥇🥈🥉 We won a silver medal for Best Juvenile/YA Non-fiction!

THE CREATIVE TEAM
Illustrator: @adamicoarts.bsky.social
Author: Josh Oaktree
Editor and Designer: Haley Rose-Lyon

#ippyawards #ippyawards2025

🌟CONGRATS to team Thorn the Unicorn 📚 and all the other IPPY Awards medalists 🥇🥈🥉 We won a bronze medal for Best Juvenile Fiction!

THE CREATIVE TEAM
Illustrator: @adamicoarts.bsky.social
Author: Josh Oaktree
Letterer: Haley Rose-Lyon
Creative director: Amelia Boscov

#ippyawards #ippyawards2025

Are you a Los Angeles artist? Here’s a PAID opportunity that also gives back to the community. We’re publishing a comics anthology in support wildfire relief. For the anthology, we have received several stories from writers who would like to be paired with artists. To learn more and apply, 🔗 in bio!

Thank you, Fanbase Press, for highlighting our comics anthology in support of wildfire relief! ☺️❤️‍🩹🗯️🎉

Comics friends, if you're in SoCal and would like to be a part of this incredible comics anthology, please be sure to reach out to the folks at @oaktreecomics.bsky.social!

Thank you! ☺️

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 @keekihanu.bsky.social 🙏

Tomorrow 📚🤩💕!

Proud to be in such great company on The Green Earth Book Award Short List for Best Picture Book for Primary Readers! Congrats to our creative team who wrote and illustrated Do You Speak Bee? 🎉❤️🐝📚

Written by Josh Oaktree
Illustrated by Josiane Vlitos

Happy Save the Elephant Day! To celebrate, meet our friend… the African Forest Elephant Griffin! 🐘🦁🦅

Art by @adamicoarts.bsky.social

(Each drawing in our book The Weird Animal Hour combines a mythical creature with an endangered species.)

Calling all Los Angeles Artists and Writers! 📣 We’re looking for your story ❤️‍🩹

Art by @keekihanu.bsky.social

Happy Pygmy Hippo Day!💞 To celebrate, meet our Pygmy Hippo-Unicorn! Art by @adamicoarts.bsky.social

Each drawing in our book The Weird Animal Hour combines a mythical creature with an endangered species. If you think this combo is far-fetched, did you know “hippopotamus” is Greek for “river horse?”

Thank you ☺️

✨📚 GIVEAWAY ALERT 📚✨

We teamed up with @thechildtensbookreview for a very special giveaway! To enter, 🔗 in bio!

The Prizes:

1️⃣ One winner receives: All three books in the ART & OAKIE ASK series—PLUS, a $100 gift card to Oak Tree Comics!

2️⃣ Two winners receive: A signed copy of Do You Speak Bee? 🎉

Happy (Weird) World Wildlife Day! 🌏🦥🧜‍♀️🐡🤖🦈🐴📚🥳

The Weird Animal Hour is an anthology of sixty animal mash-ups combining mythical creatures with endangered species. Written by Josh Oaktree (pictured here.) Illustrated by @adamicoarts.bsky.social

Available at Oak Tree Comics— 🔗 in bio!

Happy International Polar Bear Day! 🌏 Meet the Polar Bear + Werewolf illustrated by @adamicoarts.bsky.social.

Each drawing in our book The Weird Animal Hour combines a mythical creature with an endangered species. We’d love this bear to show up at an environmental protest—scare the powers that be!

We’re accepting story submissions for both picture books and young reader & MG graphic novels! To learn more about our submission guidelines:

www.oaktreecomics.com/submissions

Happy World Whale Day! Hope you’re doing whale 💙🐋🌏

This is a Blue whale + Reverse Mermaid illustrated by @adamicoarts.bsky.social for our book The Weird Animal Hour! Each drawing in the book combines a mythical creature with an endangered species ✨

Calling all creators applications are now open at lapl.org/creators

The Los Angeles Public Library and the Library Foundation are thrilled to announce the next open call for creative Angelenos to apply for the LAPL Creators in Residence program: lapl.org/creators
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Thanks again. I couldn’t agree more with everything you just said 🤗❤️‍🩹— Josh

Thank you for sharing!

Calling all Los Angeles authors and illustrators! 📣❤️‍🩹

Thorn the Unicorn — Issue #8 (eBook) | Oak Tree Comics This is the eBook for Thorn the Unicorn — Issue #8: The Warp and Weft. THE STORY: Issue 8 resumes where book 1 left off, with Rosie on an urgent quest to find Thorn. In book 1, when best friends Jack...

Thorn the unicorn issue 8 is now available from @oaktreecomics.bsky.social ! This was such a fun one to work on 🦄💕 #comics

Are you a Los Angeles children’s book creator? We’re hiring for a comics anthology to support the fire relief efforts— 🔗 in bio for submission guidelines & more info ❤️‍🩹🌿📚

16 Fiction and Nonfiction Titles for Young Readers in the Wake of the Los Angeles Wildfires These books—which share stories of real and fictional people and animals who have endured wildfires—can provide information and comfort to children and teens.

These books—which share stories of real and fictional people and animals who have endured wildfires—can provide information and comfort to children and teens.