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March’s Oh Joy Sex Toy Comic “Tantus BendOver Beginner Kit”

For $10 patrons, I posted a behind the scenes about my OJST comic “PackerGear TPR Packer”. This includes sketches, thumbnails, my script and an indepth look at my palette for my comics!

Alola Darumaka
 

Shop Updates

Given & Taken preorders have officially been mailed off and are getting delivered! The book itself is now back up in the shop, along with the transJigen sticker which you can now purchase separately AND B-copies where there’s minor printing issues which I’m selling at a reduced price of $9CAD. During April we might put the shop on hiatus until after TCAF just to ensure we have enough stock for the show. If you’re near Toronto, be sure to visit us April 29th & 30th at TCAF booth #2083 in the Appel Salon!

March’s Sketchbook

March’s sketchbook is HERE for my Grab Bag tier on Patreon and Kofi! Lots of Lupins & Curse Eater concepts this month. I had a really good time sketching this month despite how busy I’ve been, I feel like I’m just about back to a comfortable drawing pace.

The Curtain Falls

Page 22 of my Lupin III fancomic “The Curtain Falls” is up. The story follows Lupin in his 60s, dealing with the fact that nothing lasts forever and I’m officially back to working on the pages at a pretty steady rate!

Commissions

I’ve got 2 commission slots open per month, only 2 because that might be all I can handle right now. Patrons get first dibs. I set up a trello board for it too, I’m a big fan of trello boards. If you’re going to be at TCAF at the end of the month and want a physical commission shoot me an email at jey@topazcomics.com – I won’t be taking commissions on site but am happy to have them deliverable at the show itself!

NSFW Art

For my $10 Private Collector patron tier, I posted some new lewd pieces; new OCs, another Q&As – one with Lupin/Everyone, and a second with Jigen/Zenigata, I’m also starting the third and last chapter of the Jigen/Zenigata comic “After All These Years” and Patrons got a look at the next chapter cover page. My $10 tier has a huge backlog of lewd art spanning a few years now, but if you can’t make it onto Patreon you can grab the PDF versions on my itchio after I collect enough pieces to make a PDF. Patreon and Itchio are the only places I’ll be posting 18+ work.

TCAF

Dead City books are pretty much good to go and I’ll be sending the final files off to print the first week of April!! Get HYPED!! Join me & Michelle at TCAF (April 29-30th, 2023) on the second floor, booth #2083 in the Appel Salon. I’ll be bringing lots of books, stickers, prints and more!

Other things

I made a new goal on my Kofi account, I’d like to try doing more talks for free online about how to freelance, make zines, set up a Patreon, etc. The talk I have in mind right now is about how to moderate a fandom zine or comic anthology, setting up applications, making a PDF, and sending books to print! It’ll be available on my twitch channel and then I’ll upload the VOD to youtube, and write a written format for it as well. It’s a lot of work to set things like this up so I thought putting up a Kofi goal would be the best way to crowd-source this.

If you’re a Lupin fan, go check out the Lupin III forum that I’m apart of. I’m posting art over there, and I made the jacket badges for it.

I’m officially apart of the Cartoonist Cooperative, which is a really cool community for comic artists to work on things together and share resources!

I’ve got (I think) two working mailing lists now! One for every public post (around 2 per week), and another for just newsletters. You can find those on my blog page here on the sidebar, or you can follow me on Patreon for free to get the newsletter posts as well!

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Phew! What a busy month that was! Thanks for reading and I’ll see you again next month!