May 2026 Newsletter
May was such a month?! I had so many deadlines and projects and NIF and phew~ I’m glad it’s almost June!
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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 $1 and up 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
A very fun, very abstract OJST for you this month. This time, a SFW comic, about finding my own fashion!
Read Enemies to Lovers with Fashion here for free! 🔞
I finished up posting my mini autobio “Do You Have an Instagram?” with an added bonus page. Go check it out!
Read from the beginning | Read the newest pages
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Patreon Updates
This month’s sketchbook is up over on Patreon!
Despite the deadlines, I managed to get a sketchbook done! Phew
Highlights include: A bunch of concept art, both commissioned and my own, lots of birds I saw, some cursed Makas, and Tomodachi Life 3DS news~
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+ member?!
More on Patreon this month:
- Sketchbook Shoutouts – 78
- Forward to this Address – 6
- Treasures of Time – 45
- OJST Behind the Scenes: BJ Dildo 2.0
- Cursed Makas
- Forward to this Address – 7
- Gender Slices PDF
- NSFW Sex Machine Time
- Forward to this Address – 8 (Content Warning for off-screen abuse)
- Birds I Saw – 10
- Old Concept Art Book – 9
- Treasures of Time – 46
- OJST Behind the Scenes: I Got Married
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Announcement for August (IMPORTANT!!)
I wanted to give everyone a lot of notice but I’ll be taking August completely off this year!
I’ve been so darn busy with freelance work, which is great, but I haven’t had a break and have run out of my comics and personal art buffer. So I’ve decided to not post ANYTHING in August: no comics on Topaz, no OJST, no sketchbook, and no Friday public art. I’ll be putting my Patreon on break for August, so Patrons won’t be charged for that month. This’ll be the first time I’ve ever paused my Patreon since I opened it in 2017.
Then I plan to come back in September stronger than ever (hopefully!) I hope you’ll look forward to what I’ve got coming up~
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June Schedule
Working on getting back into the swing of things with my schedule now that I’ve reached all my deadlines. Bare with me if things are delayed!
- $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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NIB & INK FEST 2026
NIF 2026 comes to a close on May 31st at 5pm EDT
I’ll be one of the hosts for the closing ceremony tomorrow so come by and help us draw things to a close!
And don’t forget to check out NIF for one more day wooooo!!
I’ve got two comics in the marketplace: Gender Slices and Touchdown/After Practice Double Feature
Reclaim Your Right To Rest, a panel I did with Kelci D Crawford, is up to watch forever on Youtube if you missed us live
Reclaim Your Right To Rest on Youtube
Hope to see y’all there~
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Cool Comic Recommendation
Wychwood by Ally Rom Colthoff (varethane)
Do you like aliens? Do you like magic? Do you like semi-post apocalyptic stories set in Toronto (I know you do because you’ve read Dead City~). Then you’ll love Wychwood! Made by a friend and past coworker of mine, and another comic trying to move away from Hiveworks, go give Wychwood a read. The art is beautiful and the characters are so much fun!
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Other Things
I’ll be volunteering at the Cartoonists United booth at TCAF intermittently throughout June 6th and 7th. I’ll have just a handful of books on me. We’ll be at booth 139 on the hockey rink.
My websites have been having some server issues and I’m slooooowly working on transferring all my website stuff away from my current webhost Bluehost (they’re bad. don’t use them) to a Canadian webhost. So websites, emails, and RSS might go down when I do the big transfer. I’ll try and do it on a weekend so it doesn’t affect my Mon-Fri work email or comic updates.
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We made it through! See you next month and HAPPY PRIDE~!!!
