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Oak Tree Comics is an independent publisher for kids where imagination meets environmentalism.

14/06/2024

🎉🙉 Our new lineup of Weird Animal stickers are now live on Oak Tree Comics! Check 'em out 🙈⬇️

https://www.oaktreecomics.com/shop

05/06/2024

Many thanks to Tim Probert for this wonderful review of Thorn the Unicorn ✨📚

To pre-order the book: https://www.oaktreecomics.com/pre-order

04/06/2024

ONLY 5 DAYS UNTIL in 🐰🎉 Stop by the Oak Tree Comics booth for…

1️⃣ Some awesome kids books that speak up for the environment 📚🌿

2️⃣ Our Weird Animal compostable stickers (trust us, they’re weird—also, cool) 🦥🧜‍♀️

3️⃣ To meet children’s book author and get your books signed 📝

🌟 The fest is 100% FREE to attend and takes place this Saturday and Sunday 11am-6pm in downtown Burbank—Oak Tree Comics is at booth O29 🌟

19/05/2024

🐝 Here are 7 ways to make your garden more bee-friendly 🌸

🎉 AND HERE'S SOME BIG BOOK NEWS 📚

We're a month away from printing Do You Speak Bee? For all of May, pre-orders are 30% off on the Oak Tree Comics website:

https://www.oaktreecomics.com/pre-order

💚 HOW DO PRE-ORDERS HELP OUR SMALL BUSINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT? 💚

1️⃣ For every book we print, we're donating a dollar to the for Wild Flowers and Native Plants.

2️⃣ When you pre-order, you help us plan how many books to print. That helps us reduce the risk of books going to waste.

3️⃣ Certain environmental printing options are only available to larger print orders. Pre-orders help empower our small business with the ability to choose what materials our books are made from.

Our goal is to get 500 pre-orders. If we meet our goal, we will print 750 books. 500 books will be going to homes from the get-go while the remaining 250 are how many we can responsibly predict we will sell in the course of a year by going to local events.

Thanks for helping us in our goal of making our publishing more sustainable. The team and I couldn't BEE more appreciative 🙏💚

— Josh 🌳 and the Oak Tree Comics team

17/05/2024

🎉 We’re BEE-yond excited to announce our non-profit partner for Do You Speak Bee? 📚 For every book we print, we’re donating a dollar to the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants. Theodore Payne is a local Los Angeles nonprofit that inspires and educates Southern Californians about the beauty and ecological benefits of California native plant landscapes 🌸

All pre-orders are 30% off this May: https://www.oaktreecomics.com/pre-order

10/05/2024

🌟 Did you know blue whales once had legs? Once upon a time, they walked on land, but thanks to millions of years of evolution, their legs disappeared. They now have a vestigial pelvis with leg bones. They may no longer be able to walk, but they're the largest animal to EVER exist. A blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an ELEPHANT, and they can eat up to eight thousand pounds of krill in one day! 🌟

🎉 ABOUT THE BOOK 📚

This is an excerpt from our upcoming book THE WEIRD ANIMAL HOUR! You can pre-order it here: https://www.oaktreecomics.com/shop

To help us plan how many books to print, we're encouraging readers to pre-order—the earlier, the better! That's why all pre-orders are 30% off this May.

The book is a collection of 60 illustrations that combine mythical creatures with endangered species. Each entry in the book comes accompanied by info about the animal and how you can help it 🐳

01/05/2024

Happy day 🖤

To pre-order The Weird Animal Hour:

https://www.oaktreecomics.com/pre-order

🎉 All pre-orders are 30% off in May 🎉

27/04/2024

Now at Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants 🎉🌸

26/04/2024

Come say hi! 🎉 This weekend at 🐰🎨

🌎 WHERE: Central Park, Pasadena

🗓️ WHEN: April 27th & 28th (10am-5pm)

📚WHAT: Stop by booth #191 to meet author and get your books signed and personalized. Plus, you can shop 200+ other local LA artisans. Admission is free and there are plenty of fun family activities—all in the heart of Old Pasadena.
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26/04/2024

14/04/2024

🎉To celebrate today’s Weird Animal combines a common bottlenose dolphin with Bigfoot! If any animal would be a fan of our Weird Animal mash-ups, it’d be this playful, uber-intelligent dolphin! To learn more about dolphins AND why our team is so worried that this Weird Animal might just take over the world, check out our full write-up about dolphins:

https://www.oaktreecomics.com/weird-animal-of-the-day

✨📚 Our upcoming book THE WEIRD ANIMAL HOUR is a collection of 60 illustrations that combine mythical creatures with endangered species along with info about each animal and how you can help them.

Art by A. D’Amico
Written by Josh Oaktree

🛍️ TO PRE-ORDER THE WEIRD ANIMAL HOUR:

https://www.oaktreecomics.com/pre-order

This April all pre-orders are 40% off. Pre-orders help us plan how many books to print, and that helps us reduce waste. Our goal is to get 500 per-orders, so when we go to print every book will have a home 💚🏡

12/04/2024

🌟 To all you weird animals (and any humans reading this)! Which is your favorite cover? 📚

To pre-order the book: https://www.oaktreecomics.com/pre-order

Our goal is to get 500 pre-orders, so every book will have a home from the moment they’re printed. To encourage folks to pre-order, The Weird Animal Hour is 40% off this April 🎉

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The Weird Animal Hour is an anthology of 60 illustrations that combine mythical creatures with endangered species. Each illustration is accompanied by info about the animal and how you can help it! 📚💚

Illustrated by A D'Amico
Written by Josh Oaktree

These designs are conceptual, so please feel free to mix and match and share what elements are your favorites from each design. Your feedback is so incredibly appreciated 🙏

10/04/2024

🌟Help us pick the cover! Which is your favorite? 📚🐝

To pre-order the book: https://www.oaktreecomics.com/pre-order

Our goal is to get 500 pre-orders, so every book will have a home from the moment they’re printed. To encourage folks to order early, Do You Speak Bee? is 40% off this April ONLY 🎉

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Do You Speak Bee? is the third book in a nearly wordless graphic novel series for young readers about an imaginative first-grader and her best friend, who’s a good-natured oak tree. In each of their books , Art & Oakie go on an adventure to help their friends in nature 📚💚

Illustrated by Josiane Vlitos
Written by Josh Oaktree

05/04/2024

🎉 CREATIVE LIFE UPDATE 🎉

Some of you may have seen that I have 3 new books (!!!) coming out in the fall, and many of you have even already pre-ordered them, which I'm beyond thankful for!

(To read about or to pre-order the books, you can here: www.oaktreecomics.com/pre-order )

It's fast approaching four years now that I've been doing this whole independent publishing thing. It was peak pandemic when I switched gears from freelance screenwriting to children's book publishing. After years of writing other people's stories, I wanted to create stories that would speak to the values that I wanted to put out in the world.

So that's how Oak Tree Comics came to be. It was and is my sanctuary where I explore my identity to environmentalism through an imaginative and optimistic lens.

I guess what you can't see in this post's smiley photo and what I don't usually share around are the challenges of independent publishing. The logistics of how to get my books to readers can feel like a daunting catch-22.

The traditional publishing route of agents and an established distribution network has yet to open itself to me, and I've come to realize that's a-okay.

I do what I do because I love it. Seeing how my stories inspires readers inspires me to keep going.

So, if you've enjoyed my books before, here's my plan for how I'm hoping to get my newest ones to you:

Instead of running a Kickstarter and dealing with its pitfalls, I see an opportunity for innovation that addresses an environmental problem and that will help me to continue making my books.

The environmental problem boils down to an overarching problem with capitalism. Due to an economy of scale, books become more affordable to publishers when they order more, so publishers tend to order larger quantities than they might need or sell. The result is 160,000 trucks filled with unread books that go to landfill every year, or ten million trees.

Traditionally, the saying goes "SUPPLY and demand."

Whether it's books or anything else you buy, someone somewhere uses their best instincts to decide how many of something to create. A lot of it is guesswork.

So I want to reverse the saying and make it "DEMAND and supply?" You say whether you want something. Then I can provide just the right amount, so there's less waste.

From April through June, the Oak Tree Comics team and I are running a pre-order campaign embracing this idealistic idea. Our goal is to get 500 pre-orders for each of our three new books.

If we succeed and get 500 pre-orders, we will print 750 books because 250 is how many I know I can sell by going to book festivals in a year.

Now, let's say the best case scenario rolls in, Oprah sponsors Oak Tree Comics, and we get 1,000,000 pre-orders! In that awesome scenario, we'd still print 250 more books than the total number of pre-orders. Because 250 books is how many I know I can sell in a year. That way every book will have a home and, hopefully, no book will go to waste.

To incentivize readers to get onboard with this newfangled idea, I'm offering 40% off for pre-orders in April, 30% off in May, and 20% off in June 💚

If we don't reach our goal, or you don't want a physical book, that's a-okay, too. I'm just glad I got to share my story with you, so thanks for reading and thanks for championing Oak Tree Comics these past few years!

15/12/2023

✨ Here at Oak Tree Comics, 2023 has been a BEAR-y good WEIRD year 🎉

There are so many highlights to share but here are some favorites along with a look ahead…

🌟To start with the pretty WEIRD, week after week left us laughing, smiling, and learning thanks to her Weird Animal drawings. Each drawing combines a mythical creature with an endangered species. Aster has now drawn fifty-two Weird Animals, and author is turning them into a book. The anthology will share what makes each animal special and what we can do to protect them.

You can collect 30 of our Weird Animals as compostable stickers and learn more about all 52 of them on our TikTok.

🌟 In the world of , our creative team conjured plenty of magic! We released issues 6 and 7 and are hard at work completing the first collected volume!

Let it be known, the creative team behind Thorn is awesome:

Art by
Story by
Lettering by
Creative direction by

🌟 is also very awesome. In 2023, she illustrated the second book in the Art & Oakie Ask series (Do You Speak Bear?), plus a lot of wonderful eco tips with . You better bee-lieve, the third book (Do You Speak Bee?) is just around the corner!

In 2024, the team at Oak Tree Comics can’t wait to share with you more imaginative books that speak up for the environment—coming soon!

03/11/2023

🥳 Our very own is a nominee for the Master of the Comics Cover Contest hosted by ! 🎉🗯️

As a team, we couldn’t be prouder! Every cover Aster makes for is an absolute knockout! In our very humble opinion, she deserves to be nominated seven times over for all seven covers she’s done for the series so far.

You can vote for her and help her win prize💰 by following the link in our bio! Vote for option #9: Thorn the Unicorn 🙏

She’s not the only incredible cover artist in the competition! Swipe to check out the stellar and imaginative cover art by our fellow nominees ⬇️

1️⃣ Tempo by
2️⃣ Dismay Avenue by
3️⃣ Scent by
4️⃣ Chicken Sheriff by
5️⃣ Horus in Hell by
6️⃣ Rock of Pages by
7️⃣ Broadleaf by .official
8️⃣ Spillblood by
9️⃣ Thorn the Unicorn by
🔟 Inferno City Firehouse by

Best of luck to all!!

19/09/2023

A big THANK YOU to for throwing such an incredible event! It’s about time LA had a day dedicated to celebrating kids’ books, and what a wonderful one 🙏📚🥳

All the readers who stopped on by the table and all our fellow bookmakers made it such a special one. Thank you for being and fostering such a beautiful and supportive community!

Also many thanks to and for taking photos. They’re precious 📸 ☺️🙏

12/09/2023

Helllloo, WeHo 🎉 If you’re in LA this weekend, come say hi to author and Oak Tree Comics at the inaugural 📚 🥳

🌟WHEN? WHERE? WHAT?🌟

There will be dozens of local children’s book authors, food vendors, and more THIS SUNDAY the 17th at the newly renovated West Hollywood Park. The festival is from 9:30am-4:30pm 🎉📚☺️

Hope to see you there!

08/09/2023

🎉This weekend is 🗯️ !! Find Oak Tree Comics and author at table A13 🎉

🌟WHY STOP ON BY…? 🌟

🌿 Get a free “Oakie Dokie” sticker or bookmark (while supplies last!)
🌿 Check out our comics! Plus, our Weird Animal stickers! They combine one endangered species with one mythological creature and are 100% compostable (plus 100% weird)!
🌿 Support a small press that focuses on making imaginative, environmentally-minded comics for kids. For each book sold, Oak Tree Comics donates a dollar to plant a tree with 🌳

See you there!

01/09/2023

✨📚 Oak Tree Comics and author Josh Oaktree are attending THREE very exciting festivals this September, starting with…

🗓️ WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 9-10 — Small Press Comics Expo in Bethesda, Maryland

The Small Press Comics Expo is known as THE premiere indie comics festival in the world. Oak Tree Comics and Josh have a table right as you walk in the door. So, just look for Table A13.

🗓️ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th at in Los Angeles

Somehow, LA didn’t have a dedicated children’s book festival…until now! It’s hosted in the newly renovated West Hollywood Park, and the lineup is looking wonderful. More info coming soon!

🗓️ WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 30th- OCTOBER 1st at in Columbus, Ohio

This one’s an incredibly special one. Founded by Jeff Smith the cartoonist behind the comic book series Bone, it’s four full days of comics fun. Oak Tree Comics has a table in the main showroom on Saturday and Sunday. Daniel Clowes and Raina Telgemeier are headlining, and that’s just the beginning of a really cool lineup!

PLUS, illustrator of Oak Tree Comics' will be there! So watch out, Columbus 🎉

17/08/2023

🌟 Which cover would you want on your bookshelf? 📚💫

Exciting news! Our creative team is putting the finishing touches on the first collected volume of Thorn the Unicorn and would love to hear WHICH COVER you like best and why. Vote and share your two cents below ⬇️🦄

15/07/2023

🌟THORN THE UNICORN UPDATE 🌟 Issue 7 will arrive from the printer any day now! If you preordered, your copy will ship to you the week of the 24th, if not sooner.

🎉 HOW CAN YOU ORDER? 🎉
www.oaktreecomics.com/shop

🦄 MORE ABOUT THE SERIES 🦄
Thorn the Unicorn is an ongoing middle-grade graphic novel adventure. When Jack and Rosie rescue an injured baby unicorn, they risk everything to raise and protect it, including their friendship.

🌿 THE CREATIVE TEAM 🌸
Story:
Art:
Letters:
Creative direction:

More wonderful Thorn news coming soon!

14/07/2023

Happy Sleipnark Awareness Day! 🦈 A day to recognize the importance of these deeply misunderstood but absolutely fascinating creatures.

The sleipnark is one half horse, one half great white shark, one half eight-legged spider.

Despite their reputation as being the thing of your nightmares, as apex predators they play an essential role to the health of marine ecosystems world-wide.

Sadly, they face numerous existential threats including overfishing for their fins, habitat degradation due to climate change, accidental bycatch in fishing nets and, sometimes, they also get caught and cannibalized within their own horse-spider webs, but that’s really their problem. Again what a fascinating species!

Protecting the sleipnark means protecting marine ecosystems across the world. So let’s spread awareness about this beautiful creature!

✨To learn even more about the sleipnark, check out our story and Oak Tree Comics’ TikTok where we’ve been combining mythical creatures with endangered species. This combo combined the sleipnir (an eight-legged horse ridden by Odin in Norse mythology) with the great white shark.

Illustrated by

28/05/2023

📚🎉 The virtual launch party for DO YOU SPEAK BEAR? is just 7 days away!! RSVP below:
https://bit.ly/bear-book-party 🐻🌳

🌟 WHEN IS IT? 🌟

The night before World Environment Day. June 4th, 5pm PST/ 8pm EST

🎉 MORE ABOUT THE PARTY 🎉

Join us for a live, interactive reading with the book's authors! Plus, raffle prizes and more fun surprises!

📚 MORE ABOUT THE BOOK 📚

DO YOU SPEAK BEAR? is the sequel to DO YOU SPEAK TREE? Whereas the first book in the series spoke up for the trees, in their second adventure, Art and Oakie speak up for all the animals who call the forest home.

What makes both books so unique is that they are nearly wordless adventures. Their comic book imagery alone tells the story. Any reader can enjoy, no matter their age, reading level, or first language.

Kirkus Review wrote of the series, "It is a lushly illustrated tale for youngsters that will foster environmental empathy."

🎨 THE CREATIVE TEAM 🎨

Author:
Illustrator:
Creative director: ....................

12/05/2023

📚🎉 Join us for the virtual launch party of DO YOU SPEAK BEAR? 🐻🌳

🌟 WHEN ? 🌟

The launch party is the night before World Environment Day. Sunday June 4th!

TIME: 5pm PST/ 8pm EST

RSVP here: bit.ly/bear-book-party

🎉 ABOUT THE PARTY 🎉

Join the book's authors for a live, interactive reading! Plus, awesome raffle prizes and more fun surprises!

📚 ABOUT THE BOOK 📚

DO YOU SPEAK BEAR? is the highly anticipated sequel to DO YOU SPEAK TREE? Whereas the first book in the ART & OAKIE ASK series spoke up for the trees, in their second adventure, Art and Oakie speak up for all the animals who call the forest home.

What makes both books so unique is that they are nearly wordless adventures. Their comic book imagery alone tells the story. Any reader can enjoy, no matter their age, reading level, or first language.

Kirkus Review wrote of the series, "It is a lushly illustrated tale for youngsters that will foster environmental empathy."

🎨 THE CREATIVE TEAM 🎨

Author: Josh Oaktree
Illustrator:
Creative director: Amelia Boscov

🌳 WANT TO READ THE FIRST BOOK IN THE SERIES? 🌳

Link in our bio and below for a free digital preview:

www.oaktreecomics.com/free-comics

28/04/2023

This Arbor Day weekend, Art & Oakie celebrate by planting a tree together 🌳💚

🌍 WHAT IS OUR PLANET WEEK? 🌟

For a week, artists world-wide share illustrations celebrating our planet. Today’s theme is togetherness!

For every illustration, in collaboration with plants a tree!

Our team at is looking to do our part, too! For every book sold in the series, Oak Tree Comics donates a dollar to One Tree Planted to plant trees.

📚WHERE CAN YOU BUY THE BOOKS?🎨💚🌳

Link in bio and below:

www.oaktreecomics.com/shop

25/04/2023

Thanks to everyone who visited the Oak Tree Comics table and made this Earth Day weekend such a special one 📚❤️🌳

Also, to everyone at for putting on such a spectacular event! What a weekend!

21/04/2023

Art & Oakie are joining 🌍✨

Now in its 4th year, brings together artists world-wide to create illustrations that speak up for the environment!

Every illustration submitted as part of the challenge plants a tree thanks to

🌿 WANT TO JOIN IN? 🌿

Each day from now until May 1st, there’s a different theme to inspire your illustration. Swipe to see this year’s prompts ➡️

🎨WANT MORE ART & OAKIE?🌳

Art and Oakie now have TWO books…Do You Speak Tree? and Do You Speak Bear?! Link in bio to read the first in the series free 🎉📚🌳

Every book plants a tree! When you buy an book, donates to One Tree Planted to aid reforestation and the fight against climate change!

17/04/2023

FRIENDS IN LA, mark your calendars! This upcoming weekend Oak Tree Comics has a table at , one of the premier book festivals in the world. It’s 100% free — so much to do and see!

The list of children’s book authors reading their new books is astounding, including…

…to name a few! So come on out and visit Oak Tree Comics at booth 512. To celebrate Earth Day, author will be signing copies of Do You Speak Tree? and the newly released Do You Speak Bear? and handing out free coloring pages to be used as part of an upcycled arts and crafts activity. More info coming soon! 📚🎉🌍🌿

14/04/2023

LA & San Francisco friends, Oak Tree Comics will be attending some very cool events near you soon! Schedule highlights ⬇️ 🎉

🌟APRIL 15th: Small Press Comics Expo in San Francisco

🌟 APRIL 22nd-23rd: LA Times Festival of Books

🌟 APRIL 30th: Pop-up in the Park in Pasadena

🌟MAY 7th: Bay Area Book Festival

If you’re around, please stop in by the table! It’d be awesome to see you! 🥳📚

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Meet our Weird Animals — Sixty 100% Compostable stickers!

🎉🙉 Our new lineup of Weird Animal stickers are now live on Oak Tree Comics! Check 'em out 🙈⬇️ https://www.oaktreecomics.com/shop

Our raffle winners have been chosen 🎉🤩 Thanks to everyone who voted and helped us choose the covers for Do You Speak Bee? and The Weird Animal Hour! We’ll be revealing the chosen covers in the coming weeks. Also, to the folks who tuned in for the livestream, a BIG thank you. It was so nice to have you join 🙏 Our winner for the @artandoakie book raffle is @aemcpherson7 📚 And the winner of The Weird Animal Hour compostable sticker giveaway is amberromo15 🎉 . . . #congratulations to our #bookgiveaway #winners

🎉 If you see us at a festival, here’s how to get a FREE sticker 😁 🌟 UPCOMING EVENTS 🌟 LA Times Festival of Books 🗓️ April 20-21 Jackalope Artisan Fair in Pasadena 🗓️ April 27-28 . . . #whattodoinla #festivalofbooks #latimesfob #latimesfob2024 #bookfestival #bookfair #indiebooks #indiepublisher #booksforkids #oaktreecomics

Thanks to the Irwindale Library and all the friends who made the rainy day at @springbookfestival so sunny☀️ It was a joy being in children’s book row with everyone, frogs, snails, and all! 🎨 AUTHORS IN THIS VIDEO 📸 @author_trevormurray5 @authorkimann @miloinkbooks (Everyone’s so happy because we’re out of the rain!) #supportlibraries #irwindalelibrary #authorssupportingauthors

🌟📚Excited to share that Do You Speak Bear? has been nominated for The Green Earth Book Award @thenatgen 📚🌟 It’s such an honor! The team and I can’t wait to read and learn more about our fellow nominees. There are so many incredible books! (I’ve only located a handful of our fellow nominees’ books so far—more coming soon!) The books pictured include: TADPOLES By Matt James THE FOREST KEEPER By @storiesbysingh and @ish*tajain24 THE LAST PLASTIC STRAW By @writeforapples and @ziyuechen A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE DESERT By @roxiesstudio GALÁPAGOS: ISLANDS OF CHANGE By @lesliebulion and @beccastadtlander 📚💚 And of course our books DO YOU SPEAK TREE? and DO YOU SPEAK BEAR? 💚📚 Written by @josh_oaktree Illustrated by @josianevlitos Thank you, @thenatgen , for including us in such a meaningful award and mission! . . . #greenearthbookaward #GEBA #GEBA2024 #kidlit4climate #naturebooksforkids #oaktreecomics

Whale you look at that! Another blue-tiful weird animal. This time around, @adamicoarts has combined the endangered blue whale with a reverse mermaid 🐋🧜‍♀️ . . . . . #drawingchallenge #timelapseart #timelapseartwork #digitalillustration #digitalart #art #drawing #illustration #magicalart #fantasyart #fantasycreature #animalart #whales #savethewhales #savetheoceans

This week Art & Oakie help the Giant Panda 🐼💚 Illustrated by @josianevlitos 🎨 Written by @josh_oaktree 📝 🌟 DID YOU KNOW…? 🌟 Every day, pandas eat 26 to 84 pounds of bamboo!!!That’s so much bamboo 🎋😳🎋 🖤 ARE PANDAS ENDANGERED? 🖤 While bamboo is one of the most sustainable resources and one of the fastest growing plants, too many bamboo forests are cut down to be replaced by monoculture farms. Monoculture farms grow only one crop, which is awful for biodiversity and terrible for our friend the panda. Pandas are currently listed as “vulnerable” to endangerment due to habitat loss and deforestation. Currently, there are only ~ 1,864 pandas in the wild. That’s way too few!! 💚🐼💚 🤍WHAT CAN YOU DO? 🤍 1️⃣Choose bamboo over plastic but… 2️⃣...know the problem isn’t just plastic but single use. If you’re buying bamboo, plan to use it for a long time! 3️⃣ If you can, support organizations like @wwf that protect forests and animals world-wide 🌍 Have more ideas for how to help? Please share and comment below! Art & Oakie want to learn more ways that they can help their forest friends! #artandoakie #savethepandas #pandaart #kidlitforclimate #kidlit #digitalart #digitaillustration #kidlitart

NEW series of illustrations! Art and Oakie Ask how to help their forest friends 🎨🦥❤️🦍🌳 This week Art and Oakie help… 🐘THE AFRICAN FOREST ELEPHANT 🐘 Illustrated by @josianevlitos Did you know African first elephants are called “the mega gardeners of the forest” because their poop spreads seeds that lead to greater biodiversity. Their footprints leave puddles throughout the forest that smaller animals and insects depend on as a water source and home. Without these amazing animals, African forests would be filled with much less life!! Unfortunately, habitat loss due to human activity, hunting, and poaching continues to devestate the African forest elephant population. ❤️ HOW CAN YOU HELP? ❤️ 1️⃣ Say no to buying ivory products 2️⃣ Learn about and support conservation efforts 3️⃣ Spread the word about these amazingly intelligent animals ❤️🐘 . . . #savetheelephants #elephant #elephants #elephantlover #conservation #banivorytrade #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidlitforclimate #kidlit #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #cuteart #cuteartwork #animalart #artandoakie #oaktreecomics

3 days left in the Kickstarter! Thanks to the incredible fifth graders who made this inspiring video! You can support the Kickstarter for the second book in the Art & Oakie series here: https://tinyurl.com/thanksforsupporting 📚 MORE ABOUT THE SERIES 📚 Art & Oakie Ask is a nearly wordless graphic novel series for young readers that speaks up for the environment. The first book (Do You Speak Tree?) spoke up for forests. The forthcoming sequel (Do You Speak Bear?) speaks up for all the animals who call the forest home. 🎨 THE CREATIVE TEAM 🎨 Writer: Josh Oaktree Illustrator: Josiane Vlitos Creative Director: Amelia Boscov

🌳 The Oak Tree team is so excited to share the second book In the Art & Oakie series is nearly here!🐻 To fund the print run for the second book titled Do You Speak Bear?, we are doing a Kickstarter. We've love if you'd check out the series and consider backing it: https://tinyurl.com/thanksforsupporting

If you haven't heard, we're on Kickstarter! This is your chance to nab Do You Speak Tree? and its upcoming sequel Do you Speak Bear? 🐻 Thank you to @kirkusreviews for your review of Do You Speak Tree? #indiepublisher #fundraiser #kickstarter #kidlit #childrensbooks #indieauthor #bookfundraiser #authorkickstarter #ecoconscious #childrensbookauthor #childrensbookillustrator #picturebooks #picturebookauthor

Do You Speak Bear? - Kickstarter

Yay! You can now back our second book on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oaktree-comics/art-and-oakie-ask-do-you-speak-bear?ref=user_menu 🎨🌳 ABOUT THE SERIES 📚 ART & OAKIE ASK is written by Josh Oaktree & illustrated by Josiane Vlitos with creative direction from Amelia Boscov. The first book ART & OAKIE ASK: DO YOU SPEAK TREE? debuted on Earth Day 2021. Our Kickstarter campaign is for the upcoming sequel ART & OAKIE ASK: DO YOU SPEAK BEAR? as well as the second print run of the first book. What makes this series so special is that it has nearly no words. Its comic book visuals empower readers to make up the story for themselves. This format amplifies the story's message of speaking up for the environment through our actions. Both books are twice the length of a standard picture book, so each is chock-full of adventure! 🐻 ABOUT DO YOU SPEAK BEAR? 🐻 THE STORY: When Art forgets her school lunch, Oakie rushes it to her only to make an unexpected new friend. Bear has lost her home to habitat loss. Bear shows Art and Oakie how the forest once was and what it once again could be. Will Art and Oakie save the animals of the forest? That all depends...Do You Speak Bear? Do You Speak Bear? debuts on World Environment Day (June 5th, 2023). You can now preorder the book on Kickstarter. Recommended reading age: 5-8 and beyond Page count: 72 pages 🎨 WHERE WE ARE IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS 🎨 Artwork and all design elements are 100% complete for this lushly illustrated 72-page graphic novel. With your help, the next step is to print it!

DO YOU SPEAK BEAR? 🐻📚 After a year-plus of fine-tuning the story and art, the sequel to Do You Speak Tree? is 100% complete and ready to be printed! Back the Kickstarter here🙏: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oaktree-comics/art-and-oakie-ask-do-you-speak-bear Do You Speak Bear? is an uproariously fun graphic novel for young readers that makes habitat loss relatable for readers of all ages. Its story continues Art and Oakie’s adventure as they make an unexpected friend in Bear and speak up for all the animals of the forest. The Kickstarter not only helps our team spread the word about a series we believe in deeply, and that we’ve seen inspire kids to be more vocal in speaking up for the environment, but it also helps us be more environmental in our printing practices. That means our books use soy-based inks instead of petroleum, which is kinder to our planet, and we are able to continue our donation program. For every book we print, we donate a dollar to the non-profit @onetreeplanted. The team and I couldn’t be prouder to share the book with you soon — also, to share the incredibly fun and hopefully inspiring Kickstarter campaign we’ve put together!

A beary exciting announcement coming soon about the sequel of Do You Speak Tree? 😁🐻📚

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Oak Tree Comics is now on Tiktok! Follow us over there for videos about the creative process, learning about nature, and some fun surprises from our illustrators! ⏰⏱⏲🕰⏳⌚️🕛 #indiecomics #comicsforkids #kidlit #kidlitart #graphicnovels #indiepublisher

🌟Sneak peek from DO YOU SPEAK BEAR?🐻📚 Illustrated by @josianevlitos ✨Get ready! Exciting news this Friday! (Hmm what could it be?) 🎨🌳#artandoakie

Do You Speak Bear? - Sneak peek!

The sketch draft for Do You Speak Bear? is complete! Next comes ink and color 😁🐻 Sneak peek ⬇️

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Oak Tree Comics is an independent publisher of children’s literature written by Josh Oak Tree.

Hi, I'm Josh! I love imaginative stories that inspire positive social and environmental change. This page is a community hub for authors, readers, teachers, and students alike to engage with books published by Oak Tree Comics and, generally, to share their love for literature and, of course, comics!

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