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Mail Doodles

Two traditionally drawn illustrations on one image, both with black ink. A bust of Lupin the Third smiling and looking to the left. Jigen grinning while smoking and looking to the right.

Back when CanadaPost went on strike I had two shop orders in limbo the whole time and as thanks for their patience (I did offer a refund but they both wanted to wait) I doodled them each a drawing. I always forget to take photos of the doodles I do for Patrons in shop orders but I remembered these ones!

*Ohyeah patrons get a doodle in any book they order btw~

**But Canada Post might go on strike again today so we’ll see if I’ll be able to send out orders at all

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Webcomic Day

Promo image, with the Topaz Comics logo at the top in browns and warm gold tones. Under it reads "Queer comics by a queer duo" and the link topazcomics.com below that are four floating heads with comic titles logos above them. The first is Mikael and JP from Dead City, the second is Jey from Gender Slices, the third is Darumaka from Alola Darumaka, and the last is Jigen from our one-shots.

Happy Webcomic Day!

I’ll be posting throughout the day on social media, but for you here’s the big full post.

Want to read some queer comics written and drawn by some queer folks for free?! I’m Jey Pawlik, and with my spouse Max Parker, we’ve got hundreds of pages in our archive, like the post-apocalyptic gay romance Dead City, the nonbinary autobio series Gender Slices, a 4-koma comedy comic about Darumaka and Lupin III fancomics.

Start reading on Topaz Comics

Or see sketches, thumbnails, and pages 2 months early on Patreon

The Alola Darumaka Process

Comic page split into four quadrants showing the sketch, inks, colours, and halftone effects on an Alola Darumaka page. The comic itself is four panels done in black line art with four shades of dusty pink. Panel one shows Darumaka sitting and doodling on a piece of paper with an Alolan Meowth napping behind her, Darumaka is humming with a little music note beside her. Panel two, Darumaka is still drawing and another Meowth has appeared behind her and is napping. Panel three, Darumaka has her hands up saying "Hey!" as a Meowth lays down in front of her and on her drawing. Panel four, Darumaka still with her hands up looks angrier saying "Gah!" as she is now surrounded by Meowths napping around her, heat lines coming off her body which just gathers more Meowths to her.

Here’s my process for Alola Darumaka using the ScreentonesCast template showing my traditional sketch, digital inks, colours, and halftone effects.

 

Dead City

The book cover "Dead City", drawn with choppy black line art and coloured with greens, blacks and yellows, showing Mikael and JP kneeling next to one another holding their own backpack straps with a dark Toronto skyline behind them as the sun sets. The bottom reads "Michelle Parker and Jey Pawlik"Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, Mikael is walking over to the couch and JP asks "Are you okay?" and Mikael responds "Yeah?". Panel two, Mikael has sat down on the couch, wine glass in hand. JP asks "Are you drunk?", and Mikael replies "YESS!" Panel three shows a medium close up of JP saying "Isn't that a bad idea with all the zombies around?" Panel four is a close up of Mikael's drunk but smiling face, he says "You didn't mind last time" a bit seductively. Panel five is a similar shot but a close up of JP's face saying "But-- we should still be careful." Panel six pulls out and shows both boys on the couch together. Mikael saying "It's been ages since we saw one and they're all slow and clumsy now." JP says "Now?" Panel seven shows just Mikael from the waist up holding his wine glass saying "Right, you weren't out at the beginning."

Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, a flashback to Mikael hunkered down in his dark messy apartment as the TV is the only source of light and narration reads “There used to be a lot and they were fast and violent.” Panel two, present day Mikael and he’s happily saying “But since they’re dead they rot, right?”. Panel three, flashback again to Mikael out in a dark warehouse where he’s searching through boxes. Narration reads “One time I was out looking for food” the sentence is left hanging over panel four, which shows a scared Mikael looking over his shoulder and the sound effect “Wok!” above his head.Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, a continuation of the previous page’s flashback where Mikael is face to face with a zombie who’s decomposing and slowly meanering passed him, not noticing him at all. The narration reads “and one walked right past me! It didn’t have any eyes.” Panel two, back to the present showing Mikael lounging on the couch with JP next to him. JP asks “So the ones now are all rotted?” and Mikael smiles saying “Right!” Panel three, a close up of JP pouring himself a glass of wine on the coffee table in front of the couch while he says “Alright.”

Dead City is a completed post-apocalypse gay romance comic that focuses more on survival and human connection than the zombie aspect of the genre. Written by Max, this was our first comic project that we started in 2013 and finished in 2020! It’s still available to read online, but a newer fancy version was made into a book last year.

https://topazcomics.com/deadcity/welcome

https://topazcomics.com/shop

 

The Curtain Falls Process

My Patreon exclusive comic “The Curtain Falls”, a 50 page Lupin III comic about Lupin in his 60s and coming to terms that nothing lasts forever. The comic is wrapping up THIS WEEK with printing and a digital PDF on the horizon, so I wanted to promo that today as well! Sign up on Patreon to read the whole comic!

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Sketchbook Shoutouts 59 & 60

Four black and white illustrations on one image. "Shoutout for Amiel" showing Lupin blocking his face from Jigen taking a photo of him, Lupin says "Hey! Stop." and Jigen replies with a smile "I model for you though!" there's a little 'clk' sound effect from the shutter. "Shoutout for Khiari" of Taichi and Izzy from Digimon Adventure, the two are blushing and sitting shoulder to shoulder. "Shoutout for Peggy" Varian from the Tangled tv series giving Rayla from The Dragon Prince a kiss on her hand as she blushes. "Shoutout 'to my Ari'" of two original characters belonging to the request asker, a boy with short cropped light hair gives a kiss to another boy, whom is wearing big circular glasses and has short dark hair. There's hearts coming from above their heads.

Four black and white illustrations on one image. "Shoutout for TLC" shows Zenigata with his arm around Jigen's shoulder and giving him a kiss on the cheek, Jigen is blushing and smiling. "Shoutout for Rett" showing Jigen and Zenigata at a movie theatre, Jigen is grinning while his hand is in the popcorn bucket, and Zenigata is tearing up while clutching his hat. "Shoutout for Max" of our OCs Tan and Bronze dancing together, both men are in their 50s, Tan is shorter and has short hair with rectangular glasses while Bronze is tall and built with short wavy hair and a trim beard. "Shoutout for Jonnie" of Kent and Dean from the Iron Giant, Kent is blushing and smiling while Dean leans over Kent's shoulder from behind while grabbing his tie and grinning.

Some shoutout requests from my Private Collectors on https://patreon.com/jpawlik and https://jpawlik.com/vipblog with some real fun ones, lots of Jigen/Zeni which I am not complaining about!

Hey and it’s the beginning of the month, now’s the best time to sign up and get these requests every month plus a huge archive of art and comics, there’s a SFW tier and a NSFW tier~

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