SugaCakes Publishing

Home of the comic book series, “Sockmonsters,” SugaCakes Publishing is the creative brainchild of Helen Wurthmann and A.B. Abbott.

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Sockmonsters

The Sockmonsters graphic novels are a love letter to anyone who has ever lost their sense of home and is on a journey to find it again. Wurthmann and Abbott weave a bittersweet story of loneliness and belonging, self-love and friendship, pain and healing.

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Sockmonsters: Book 1

"When a somewhere becomes a home, a monster is born..."
Meet Fritz and Nobody: two monsters without homes. Both have ended up at a hotel, where they must overcome their solitary nature by living together. If they're not careful, paranoia will tear them apart, making way for a terrifying new enemy.

Sockmonsters: Book 2

"It's not as good as a real Home, of course. But it's close..."
In this second installment of SOCKMONSTERS, Nobody recovers from a vicious attack. But past memories still haunt him, making it difficult to embrace a new life with Fritz. Feeling safe again will mean trusting someone who has hurt him before. It will mean staying somewhere he doesn’t belong. It will mean considering the possibility that he won’t feel safe ever again.

- ABOUT the authors -

Helen Wurthmann

**Illustrator & Co-Author**
Helen is an author, poet, and artist from St. Louis, Missouri. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts with her husband and spends her free time making comics, experimenting with textile arts, and blogging. *Sockmonsters* is her first comic.

A. B. Abbott

**Co-Author**
A. B. Abbott has had short stories and poems published in a dozen small press literary magazines, and now focuses on writing novel-length projects and short films. When she’s not writing, she teaches ballroom dance and spends time with her family in Kansas City, Missouri.

heat Lightning

“Heat Lightning” is a series of illustrated poems by Helen Wurthmann exploring the power of memory in a human life. Prints available by request and at our tabling events - full chapbook coming soon!