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.
Plastic Girl is her coming of age series set in a climate apocalypse, and Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters is her award-winning 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. Click here for a review copy of Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: La Llorona in the Machine.
Check out her Monster of the Week substack.
Events & Author Workshops
Los Angeles Comic Con is LA’s ultimate destination for comics, gaming, cosplay, anime, and pop culture.
More details coming soon.
September 26-28, 2025
Los Angeles Comic Con
March 27-29, 2026
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.
April 18-19, 2026
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 22-26th, 2026
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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