August 2025 Newsletter
Hey hey I’m back and here’s August’s newsletter of updates!
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Latest Public Arts
I post public art every Friday! For August I took a break posting new art so I filled my Fridays with photography instead. These were only posted on my blog.
Regularly, all Friday art is crossposted to tumblr, mastodon, pillowfort, bluesky, SheezyArt and jpawlik.com/blog and up over a month early for all Patrons and VIP members which also include sketches and thumbs with almost every piece!
Webcomic Updates
I took a break from comic updates this month on account of being up north for 3 weeks and it was lovely!
While I was up at the cottage I did start thumbnailing my next WEBCOMIC: In Search Of Analogue Days
So hopefully I’ll be able to get a good buffer for that and start posting maybe early next year. Any announcements will absolutely be in my newsletter!
If you’re a Patron or VIP Member I’ll be posting up the comic Max and I did for the Jigen Before And After Zine starting this Tuesday. It’s 6 pages and I’m real proud of it!
HRT Diary Comics will be going up publicly over on Topaz Comics on Tuesdays for a bit because I got a bought of autobio inspiration! You can also read them all early on Patreon or my VIP Blog.
Read from the very beginning | Read just the HRT Diary on Topaz Comics | Read on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog
Treasures of Time continues to be posted every Wednesday on Patreon and my VIP blog for Grab Bag members. I’m really enjoying this little Lupin photo album series I’ve been working on. I’m sure I’ll print it into a zine when I’ve collected enough of them, but for now they’ve been really nice to work on in my spare time and post really casually.
August’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon and my VIP Blog
September Schedule
September’s schedule, as always things may move around depending but I’m hoping to get back into regular posting!
$1 members get Patreon posts on Tuesdays and Fridays
$5 members get Patreon posts on Wednesdays and my Sketchbook PDF at the end of the month
$10 members get Patreon posts every other Thursday (or so)
Free comics are posted every Tuesday on Topaz Comics
Free illustrations are posted every Friday on my art blog and most social media sites
Topaz Comics Shop
*NEW*
Mystery of Mamo Fujiko sticker
Porco Rosso Hot Girl Summer sticker
Transfixed Anthology
An update on tariffs: as of August 29th, the US is requiring a 30% tariff fee on ALL items of $800 or less from Canada. In the meantime I’m closing any shipments to the USA until I can figure out how this works with my site or if the US rescinds this decision. I am deeply upset by this because 90% of my sales come from American folks. It’s been a terrible ride lately for selling online and I’m so very tired.
For y’all newsletter readers, feel free to use the coupon code SayNoToTariffs20 for 20% off any digital item – limit to 1 coupon per customer, expires September 30th 2025
Itch.io & NSFW media under attack
As of writing this on August 31st:
Itch.io has reinstated all my works but Stripe is no longer an option for payment and I feel uneasy with Paypal being the only option there. Itch.io has said they’re looking in to new payment processors but nothing new has developed yet.
I hold strong in my support of NSFW content and I highly recommend you contact Mastercard, Visa, Paypal and Stripe to tell them your displeasure in the situation. There’s lots of resources out there right now on how to fight back and I highly recommend you do, even if NSFW media isn’t your jam censorship helps no one. Please check out https://yellat.money/ for a list of phone numbers, petitions, and other ways to help.
As a NSFW artist myself I’m currently looking into other options for where to host my work or how to accept payment for those works. I have made a SubscribeStar and am just waiting to be approved for that and I’ll see if I can use that as an option.
If anyone has any other options that are viable to try, please let me know!
Cool Comic Recommendation
Oh Joy Sex Toy by Erika Moen, Matthew Nolan, Hien Pham, and many more!
I assume most folks know about Oh Joy Sex Toy, but in case you don’t: Oh Joy Sex Toy is a sexy and sex-ed comics site which has a huge archive of reviews, sex-ed, fictional and autobio comics. It’s just over 12 years old now and helped me when I was finally just learning about sex-ed in my early 20s.
I’ve also done quite a lot of comics for them, with one-offs and regular monthly comics from 2021 to 2023 and… oh! You should be sure to read the comic coming out on September 19th 👀 👀 👀
For the last two years I’ve also been doing social media posting for them on Mastodon and Pillowfort, so that’s me if you ever get a reply on either of those.
Other Things
I’m back from vacation and had a great, relaxing time! Max and I had three weeks away from the internet and news and social media. We went swimming, I took lots of photos, and we worked on comics outside while listening to birds and looking out at the lake.
Commissions will be closed for now, my workload got a lot heavier after of coming back from vacation.
I was offered a teaching job at a local private college!!! School hasn’t started yet and I’m nervous and excited about this all at once!
Also to my knowledge, you ARE able to reply to this newsletter in your email if you ever want to leave a comment/feedback/fun fact for me and I’ll get an email reply.
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I hope y’all had a good summer and I’ll chat with y’all again at the end of September!
