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February 2026 Newsletter

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February 2026 Newsletter

WHOA! What happened to February? It happened so fast! Even still, I have some art and comic updates for y’all this month~

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Latest Public Arts

All Friday public art is crossposted to tumblr, mastodon, pillowfort, bluesky, and jpawlik.com/blog and TWO months early for all Patrons — which also include sketches and thumbs with almost every piece, if that’s something you may be interested in 👀

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Webcomic Updates

Selling Sexy Comics, an Hourly Comics Day Special by Jey Pawlik, done in cool minty green tones with heavy blacks and black linework, with some oranges and yellows just on books and the booth. Jey is a white nonbinary person with short black cropped hair and big rectangular glasses wearing various cozy sweaters and cardigans. Jey’s partner, Max, is a white agender person with short tidy hair and wearing a button-up with a sweater on top and jeans. Narration: 7pm – the night before the con Jey and Max are working at their table, printing, folding, stapling and cutting a huge pile of zines. Max says “I cannot wait to finally get this zine out there!” Jey replies “Me too, it was a lot of work but I think it’s our sexiest one yet.” Max says “And you drew Betty’s orgasm splash page so well, Jey!” Jey slips a belly band on the zine “I Built You A Sex Machine” with a blurb about the comic, the price and a big 18+ notice. Jey says “It’s too bad though.” Max asks “What is?” Jey replies “That we can only sell these in person and not in our own online shop that we own! UGH Payment processors shouldn’t be allowed to restrict our smut. Adults should be allowed to buy porn!” Max agrees and says “I know, but at least we still have in-person shows we can sell these at.” Narration: 10pm Two suitcases are ready to go with a handwritten ribbon above them “all packed”, while Max and Jey look exhausted. Max wearily says “Well, that’s the last of it, finally.” Jey is on the ground giving a thumbs up. The two get ready for bed, brushing their teeth and washing their faces. Jey says “Shows are a lot of work, huh? Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it.” Narration: 11pm, 12am, 1am Max and Jey are in bed and Max replies “Sure, but remember after every show we always say something like: That was fun, let’s do it again!” Jey says “That’s true! I hope the zine sells well.” Max says “Me too.”

February’s Oh Joy Sex Toy comic was an Hourly Comics Day Special all about what goes in to selling sexy comics at conventions!

Read them here for free!

 

Three more pages are up from my “Ins and Outs of Webcomics”! Learn what all you need to make and start your own webcomic.

Read from the beginning | Read the latest page | Buy the zine | Read ahead on Patreon

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Patreon Updates

This month’s sketchbook is up over on Patreon!

This month’s sketchbook is here!

Another busy month but I had a really great time drawing some silly doodles about my most recent Skyrim playthrough. I played Skyrim a LOT when it came out back in 2011 and during a heavy freelance month I felt the pull to start a new character.

Highlights this month: silly Lupin doodles, website design concepts and ideas, Darumaka, reaction to the Pokemon Direct, and as always some really great shoutouts from the Private Collector folks!

Did you know I do post a sketchbook PDF at the end of every month? AND you get access to the entire Sketchbook PDF collection archive if you’re a $5 and up member?!

More on Patreon this month:

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March Schedule

  • $1 members get Patreon early access 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 more) & a shoutout request every month
  • Free comics are posted every Tuesday on Topaz Comics
  • Free illustrations are posted every Friday on my art blog and most social media sites (links above in the “latest public art” section)

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Website Updates!

Topaz Comics has been needing an update for a looooong time and I’m just starting to work on it and think of new ideas to update the site with.

Things I want to do: make better use of the sidebar, make the front page library more mobile friendly, compile and make a nice archive page for each comic, finish up links and extra pages!

Something I’m also playing with is adding “Thanks to our Patrons” list to our About & Links page, where I’ll list $5 members by their usernames, but give $10 members the option for a personalized icon on the site that they can then also go use wherever they want (not commercially)

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Cool Comic Recommendation

Shaderunners by Lin Darrow & Alex Assan

Another friend’s comic that I love dearly. Shaderunners follows the story of a world where the colour has been pulled from it and are exclusively used by the elites of an alternate-reality’s 1920’s New York.

It’s got quite a backlog if you’re looking for something long to read and it’s still updating too~

Oh, did you know I did a guest comic for it too, back in the day?

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Other Things

I was working on some children’s book freelance work, which has been different but very rewarding to work on!

I’m working on a side-OJST comic for the upcoming pledge drive in June so be on the look out for that. I’m still trying to decide what it’ll be about.

Commissions are still up in the air, but I’ll let everyone know when they’re back up!

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Let’s make some more art in March!

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