The Tea Dragon Society

Greta is an apprentice blacksmith who finds a lost tea dragon in the marketplace and carries it back to its owner, Hesekiel, who runs a small tea shop with his partner Erik. The two keep tea dragons, small creatures that grow tea leaves on their horns and need patient, daily care, and they are among the last people who still know how to look after them.

Greta keeps coming back to the shop to learn. She befriends Minette, the quiet young woman who lives with them as their ward, and begins to understand how much the slow craft of tending tea dragons asks of the people who practise it. The story follows her through four chapters, one for each season.

The Tea Dragon Society started as a webcomic by Kay O'Neill in 2016 and was collected as a hardcover by Oni Press in October 2017. It won two Eisner Awards in 2018, for Best Publication for Kids and Best Webcomic. It is a gentle, low-stakes fantasy about friendship, memory and caring for something over time, and it opens The Tea Dragon Series, followed by The Tea Dragon Festival and The Tea Dragon Tapestry.