Wicked Tree Press
Where Horror Meets Heart.
We publish comics, novels, and anthologies that highlight strong women heroes, anti-heroes and villains in the science fiction, fantasy, ecopunk, solarpunk, superhero, and horror genres.
The company’s mission is to bring to life genre-bending, heartfelt comics and books with a focus on social issues.
Jessica Maison
Novelist, comics writer, screenwriter, director, publisher.
Jessica is an American science fiction, fantasy and horror writer. She was born on a military base in Twenty-Nine Palms and grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan. She graduated from the University of Michigan and lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters, partner, and German Shepherd mix. Her fiction explores a wide variety of themes, including family, survival, injustice, and the environment.
She loves reading and getting inspired by folklore, mythology, fairy tales, and good old fashioned ghost stories. She also writes and publishes comics. She began her writing career as a screenwriter and has directed a sci-fi time travel film.
She is a climate justice advocate who promotes green spaces and urban forestry, habitat restoration projects, school gardens, sustainability, and environmental education.
Plastic Girl is her coming of age series set in a climate apocalypse, and Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters is her horror graphic novel series. Her short sci-fi fiction can be found on Terraform, and her short horror comics have appeared in anthologies such as Cthulhu is Hard to Spell and Nightmare Theater.
Check out her Monster of the Week substack.
Events & Author Workshops
May 17-18, 2025
Comic Con Revolution
Comic Con Revolution is The Inland Empire's largest comic & pop culture event. Blazing a trail, the CCR Team has built something much bigger than a convention -- we've created an unforgettable experience.
Jessica will be participating in a publishing panel. Details coming soon.
Los Angeles Comic Con is LA’s ultimate destination for comics, gaming, cosplay, anime, and pop culture.
More details coming soon.
September 26-28, 2024
Los Angeles Comic Con
March 28-30, 2025
Wondercon
WonderCon features 900+ exhibitors in a 412,000–-square-foot Exhibit Hall filled with comics, original art, toys, and merchandise from many popular artists, publishers, and retailers. Jessica will be participating in the Mary Shelley Presents panel, the Creators Assembles event. You can find her and her books at the Ahhh Indie Authors small press booth. Jessica will be participating in two workshops - Concept to Creation on Friday, 7:30-8:30 PM, Room 210 and Publishing on Your Terms, 1:30-2:30 PM, Room 300C.
April 20-21, 2024
L.A. Times Festival of the Books
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has evolved to include live bands, poetry readings, film screenings and artists creating their work on-site.
July 24-27th, 2024
San Diego Comic Con
The SAN DIEGO COMIC CONVENTION (Comic-Con International) is a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation organized for charitable purposes and dedicated to creating the general public’s awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms, including participation in and support of public presentations, conventions, exhibits, museums and other public outreach activities which celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture.
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