Happy Pride month everyone!! What a busy month June ended up being. OH and a special welcome to the folks who signed up for my newsletter during TCAF and CitrusCon. Enjoy your stay~
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Latest Public Arts
I post public art every Friday! Everything is also 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
The Curse Eater pilot chapter has officially wrapped up! Thanks so much for reading, Max and I are hoping to either pitch it around but if that doesn’t happen we’ll post it as a webcomic. Wherever it ends up, newsletter readers will be sure to get updates about it.
Read the latest pages | Read from the beginning
THE CURTAIN FALLS HAS ARRIVED!
I’m so so proud of this book and how it turned out. And that it’s done. This was my first big fictional project by myself. I wanted to keep it fairly short and manageable lest I be overwhelmed but it went really well. Hey and did you know the PDF and book come with extras? Like TEN pages of extras and a post card? I really went all out on this one and I hope you enjoy it. If you did, @ me on most socials about it, or shoot me an email!
Grab it at the Topaz Comics Shop! | The PDF is also available on itch.io for PayPal users
Grab Bag folks are getting a slew of HRT Diary comics right now because I was really feelin’ it! Those will be going out every Tuesday for $1+ members for a bit before being available publicly at the end of July on Topaz Comics.
Read on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog
Some new NSFW pinups went up for the Private Collector Tier – hey did you know the $10 tier also includes my entire nsfw archive as well?
See ’em on Patreon | Or on my VIP Blog
June’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon and my VIP Blog
It’s another month of lots of concept art! June was so busy with conventions and events but I somehow managed to get a bunch of sketching in. There’s a few pages of notes when I went to a day long seminar on comic making, maybe you’ll find it helpful — I know I did! And as always some great shoutout requests from the Private Collector crew, it’s always fun drawing so many JigZeni pieces and brand new things I’d never heard of before.
Wrapping up June’s Convention Events!
TCAF and CitrusCon were both so wonderful! I met so many great folks at both.
TCAF was in a different location this year and while it was extremely crowded, I did enjoy the new setup. TCAF is my favourite show of the year whether I’m boothing or attending. I also think having it be during Pride Month really helped. We got so many tourists coming through and were excited to see all the queer comics on our table! Thank you to everyone who came by!
This was also my first time boothing at CitrusCon and it was really delightful! I would absolutely sign-up for it again. If you like MLM works I highly recommend it.
🌈The cons may be over for me for the summer but I wanted to give y’all newsletter peeps an exclusive sale. If you buy something physical from the Topaz Shop, you can add any 1 sticker to your cart and get that sticker for free! Use code SummerNews25 – expires July 31st🌈
Cartoonist Coop Summer Camp
Now that NIF has wrapped, do you want even more events from the Cartoonist Coop? Join up now to take part in this year’s Summer Camp, July-August 2025. I’ve got a talk on halftones and other forms of toning your comics on July 6th!
July Schedule
Here’s July’s schedule! Though things may move around I try my darndest not to move them too much. Comic and art titles are also subject to change.
- Tuesday is webcomics day, $1+ patrons get early access 2 months before pages go up on Topaz Comics for free
- Wednesday is Grab Bag day, $5+ patrons
- Every other Thursday are Private Collector NSFW posts, $10 patrons
- Friday is for fun illustrations, $1+ patrons also get early access before a month before I post them free online
Cool Comic Recommendation
Exorcism Academy by Asmo (18+)
This comic is for an 18+ adult audience only and features explicit sexual content, violence, and other mature themes.
“Ethan, a cadet exorcist, finds himself being seduced by his demon partner Al, but their unexpected romance is destined for darkness when human and demon worlds collide!”
Exorcism Academy is fun, sexy, and dramatic in all the right parts! If you’re a fan of beautiful beefy boys and demons then this is the comic for you.
Other Things
Some other autobio comics are on the horizon! Excited to share that news with y’all soon~
Commissions are still open for the foreseeable future!I want to draw things for you!
I’m also looking for some freelance work, if you or anyone you know is the market for a comic or character artist hit me up.
I’ve been really enjoying photography as a hobby so be sure to check out my Photography Corner posts as I very slowly get all those film photos up! Debating on making a tumblr for them as well.
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Hope y’all are having a good start to the summer, I’ll talk to you again at the end of July!
Another Legend of Zelda comic to test out halftones, I do love drawing beautiful vistas!
Hey did you know it’s Make A Terrible Comic Day? Here’s a fumble that happened to me this morning. It was so hard going straight to inks, I need an undersketch!!! I also didn’t do any edits to the page, this is how it looks straight from my scanner.
The very first sketches I did for The Curtain Falls vs. panels from this year! Seeing them side by side feels so good in how much I’ve progressed.
I promise I do draw Goemon from time to time. Here’s some jokes and redraws!
Max and I will be boothing as Topaz Comics at the online 18+ convention CITRUS CON! We’ll be doing some shop sales, commissions and some freebies so drop by and say hi in our artist alley thread~
Also a hello to everyone who signed up for my newsletter at TCAF, thank you so much! I wanted to make sure folks got an update about CitrusCon, which is this weekend, so I’ll be going over my 1 email a month this time. I’ll be sending out the proper newsletter on June 30th.
Sometimes I just have the incredible urge to put Maka in costumes!
The final designs I went with for The Curse Eater pilot chapter. These boys have been through a lot of changes over the last few years and I’m really happy with where they’ve ended up so far.
Wanted to post this in place of a comic after the pilot chapter finished up, because I wanted folks to see them in colour and their full outfits.
Go read the whole pilot chapter that’s available for FREE right now!
Eight shoutout requests from my Private Collectors on https://patreon.com/jpawlik and https://jpawlik.com/vipblog which were a lot of fun to do! I love Delicious in Dungeon with ALL MY HEART but I don’t do any fanart for it, so this was nice.
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~
I also have these shoutouts available as a one-time purchase over on Ko-Fi if that’s more your jam!
