Y’all, May was so bananas busy I can’t believe I made it through! I also managed to get this newsletter done somehow (even if it’s June now, happy pride everyone)

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Public May Art

I try and post fun public art every Fridays, usually fanart! I also post them on all the socials if that’s your jam, maybe give them a reblog over on tumblr, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog with sketches and thumbnails up early for patrons and VIP members.

Webcomic Updates

Three new Alola Darumaka pages up this month! And if you want early access to pages, sketches and thumbs check out my Patreon or my VIP Blog.

Read from the beginning | Read the newest pages

I posted another HRT diary comic this month, we’re on page 6 now! I’m making these pages as changes happen, but I do post them early on Patreon and my VIP Blog, then up 2 months later for free on Topaz Comics.

Read from the beginning | Read the latest page

Just one page of After All this month, it’s a bit of work to do these pages because I’m doing a trans version and a cis version of each page! It’s been fun to try and see come together. This is a NSFW Jigen/Zenigata comic written by Max and it’s the penultimate page!

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A new page of The Curtain Falls went up as well, this is a Lupin III fancomic I’m working that focuses on Lupin in his 60s and dealing with change and retirement. Yata is having the weirdest first day helming the Lupin case!

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May’s Sketchbook

This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon and my VIP Blog

Other things

So my work contract got extended again, I’ll be working on this game until August but there’s a chance I may be extended again which is really exciting as we start putting some really cool art into this! I cannot wait to share what the game is with y’all.

I’m working through 140 applicants for Swim On this year, and this will be the very last year of it! I was getting a little emotional as I was going through portfolios, but I think ending at vol. 10 is the right choice. I don’t have as much time as I used to and it keeps growing too. I hope this year will be the biggest, best one yet!

I also removed Kofi as a subscriber option. It’s not my favourite to post to, it’s very clunky, and I don’t like how the categorizing works. It was a lot of work for only one person to actually subscribe and they seemed to have cancelled now so I decided to turn it off. Kofi is still there as a tip-jar and you can always get a shoutout request on it, but I won’t be putting any extra work into it. I’d much rather get my VIP blog working and nice looking – since I own that!

Max and I are working on a pitch for an upcoming anthology, I’m real excited to tell y’all about it when pre-orders go up.

I’m also working on a small comic for a cool writer about their phalloplasty. It’s being looked over by editors for a publishing company right now and I think what we made is really neat.

Despite being behind on drawing them, I’m still hosting weekly art prompts over on the Lupin Forum and I’ve been really enjoying having a non-social media place to post and chat. If you’re a Lupin fan I highly encourage you to join!

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Basically May was the busiest I’ve been in a long time! Hopefully June will be a bit quieter so be sure to sign up for updates to get that at the end of June!