"Nothing can prepare you for this book. Holy shit. Horror fans! If you love the Wind in the Willows but hate your inner child... BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES is for you."
——Tony Fleecs

"Holy shit! What a bizarre, unexpected and totally fucking wonderful comic. A gemlike fever dream. Love it to bits."
——Simon Spurrier

★Rights sold to Spain, France, Italy, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Czechia, Hungary, Ukraine and Poland. The publishers have quickly sold past their advances, and produced multiple printings!
★One of the best selling US titles in 2024. It sold in the range of Spider-Man and Batman numbers. As of October, the title has sold over 300,000 copies of the series, which includes the single issues and collected editions!
★The winner of “book of the year” at New York Comic Con’s Harvey Awards, as well as in the running for “best series” at Baltimore Comic-Con’s Ringo Awards and Eisner nomination for best new series!
★A tabletop RPG game and a card game are also in development, as well as plushies and other merchandizing.
★The comic was part of a select group of titles that have been reformatted for scrolling webcomic platform Webtoon, where it has already garnered more than three million views
★Several studios and production companies are said to be circling Beneath the Trees for possible adaptation as a movie or series.
★With its Dexter meets Richard Scary tones, the title centered on a brown bear named Samantha Strong, a seemingly mild-mannered hardware store owner (who is actually a serial killer) living a bucolic suburban town of Woodbrook.
★Currently in the midst of its second story volume, the title has seen sales so strong that what began as an unexpected hit will be getting a third volume.

Live, laugh, shed blood. Dexter meets Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town in this twisted debut graphic novel!

Don’t. Murder. The locals.

This is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and adorable brown bear Samantha Strong’s cardinal rule. After all, there’s a sea of perfectly ripe potential victims in the big city just beyond the forest, and when you’ve worked as hard as Sam to build a cozy life and a thriving business in a community surrounded by friendly fellow animal folk, warm decor, and the aroma of cedar trees and freshly baked apple pie…the last thing you want is to disturb the peace.

So you can imagine her indignation when one of Woodbrook’s own meets a grisly, mysterious demise—and you wouldn’t blame her for doing anything it takes to hunt down her rival before the town self-destructs and Sheriff Patterson starts (literally) barking up the wrong tree.

Cute critters aren’t immune to crime in this original graphic novel debut by writer-artist Patrick Horvath.

Patrick Horvath is an American film producer, writer, and director. His films include Entrance, The Pact 2, and Southbound. Though he’s been working as an illustrator and cartoonist for many years, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees will be his graphic novel debut. He’s bursting into the comic scene as an author/illustrator.