Middle Grade Cozy Fantasy Comics and Graphic Novels

When Willow’s emotions get the best of her one day, she runs away to the woods. She quickly realizes just how reckless a decision that was, though, when she meets a lost tree spirit named Pilu. Unlike Willow, who chose to run away, Pilu can’t find her way home. But Willow knows the way. She and her mother used to visit that magnolia grove all the time. Willow is determined to help the lost tree spirit, but if she can’t learn to confront her own feelings, her emotions might become too big for her to keep inside.

A young hedge witch has to take up her calling after the death of her grandmother. Ever since her Mamo passed, strange and unnerving things have been happening in Haresden. Poltergeists are haunting attics, and crops are failing. Now, it’s up to Orla to set things right again. Mamo always wanted Orla to take over for her, but is the young witch really ready to lay her grandmother’s bones to rest and stop all these hauntings? Mamo thought so, and Orla’s new friends do, too.

In this charming middle grade cozy fantasy comic, the daughter of a blacksmith returns a lost tea dragon to its caretakers and learns about the lost art of tending to tea dragons. Soon, Hesekiel and Erik, as well as their shy ward, help Greta see just how rewarding it is to care for creatures other than yourself and brew up a nice, steamy cup of tea.

Snap’s never been too worried about fitting in, so befriending the supposed town witch isn’t that out of the ordinary, really. Jacks isn’t really a witch, anyway, just a weird old lady who sells articulated roadkill skeletons online. But she has a surprising connection to Snap’s own family. That, and the more time Snap spends with her, the more she begins to wonder if Jacks might actually have magic after all.

When her fearless little sister runs away to find the Earth Queen at the heart of the Enchanted Forest and asks her to stop the earthquakes that are destroying their goblin village, Bix is forced to venture into the forest after her. But unlike Pella, Bix is scared of everything. She knows no one ever returns from the Enchanted Forest, but to bring her little sister home, she’ll brave anything—even the fury of the Earth Queen herself.

When a firebird named Ren crashes to earth, a young mermaid finally finds a reason to venture beyond her lonely shores. Atana knows there are hunters who would do anything to capture a mermaid like her, but Ren’s only hopes of safety may lie in deeper waters. The secretive Witch Queen could provide protection for Ren and answers about Atana’s past, and her offer to stay at the Blue Palace is a generous one. But while it may hold the answers Atana has desperately been searching for, it might also prevent her from pursuing the bright future she’s only just begun to believe is possible.

Lora is lonely after losing most of her friends, who are more interested in teen things now rather than playing pretend. But when Lora discovers Alexa, the ghost haunting her house, she finally has someone to spend her time with who loves all the same things she does. Unlike Alexa, though, Lora is still aging. Will she be able to embrace the changes of growing up and keep her friendship with Alexa in the process?