Bree Paulsen is a writer and illustrator based in Southern California who has been making comics for over a decade. She is best known for her bestselling graphic novels GARLIC & THE VAMPIRE (2021) and its sequel GARLIC & THE WITCH (2022). She broke into the comics industry with her webcomic, Patrik the Vampire, she started back in 2013. Bree is currently working on a highly anticipated young adult adaptation of DRACULA while she waits for the release of her next middle grade graphic novel THE FIRELIGHT APPRENTICE, out in late October 2024. When she is not working on comics, Bree enjoys writing dark fantasy fiction drawing all sorts of monsters and historical fashion, or feeding her brain worms with another play-through of one of her favorite FromSoftware games.