Photo of an open sketchbook, two smaller closed handsewn sketchbooks, and two black and white traditional illustrations.

It’s my birthday AND I hit some big follower milestones on Bluesky, Tumblr AND Mastodon, so to celebrate I wanted to do a traditional art giveaway! This includes sketchbooks, sketch pages, comic pages and illustrations.

– 3 winners will be chosen and contacted on November 15th

– Winner’s will receive a traditional grab bag of their choosing

– You can only sign up once

– Winners will need to provide an address or P.O box to send the art to (I’ll do my best to ship outside Canada/USA)

 

Pop your name into the giveaway here!

Updates
Rectangular image with the text “2024 Updates, October Edition” over top of an illustration of Jey and Max as tiny wizards. The text “jpawlik.com/blog and patreon.com/jpawlik” is at the bottom of the image.

I’m back from my contract work AND my honeymoon to Japan!

Here’s how you can keep up on these newsletters (they’ll always be free)
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Public October Art

Public art goes up every Friday on tumblr, mastodon, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog with sketches and thumbnails up over a month early for Patrons and VIP members!

Webcomic Updates

Another page from the comic Max and I did for the anthology Queer Compassion in 15 Comics, we’ll be wrapping up the 8 page comic in November!

6 pages are up so far to read for free. If you want early access to pages, sketches and thumbs check out my Patreon or my VIP Blog.

Read from the beginning | Read the latest page

For Patrons and VIP members, two new pages from After Practice went up! This is a comic Max and I did for Filthy Figments a few years back that we’re allowed to post now!

A sexy 19-page story about two older lesbians, Jan and Isabelle, who come home to a relaxing bath after flag football practice!

Read it on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog

October’s Sketchbook 

This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon and my VIP Blog

A shorter sketchbook this time, and a bit late because I had so much jetlag from my honeymoon trip! Max and I went to Japan and it was so much fun – however I didn’t do any drawing while I was there like I thought! This month I’ve got some fun Halloween Makas for you, pen tests, new and old OC concept art and of course some great shoutouts from my Private Collector folks!

JAPAN!

Max and I just got back from our honeymoon in Japan and it was absolutely incredible! We went to Tokyo, Hakone and Kyoto, got to take the subway, bullet train and a really cute retro streetcar. Of course we bought a lot too!

I’m thinking about drawing a travelogue about our trip, since Max and I kept journals while we were there we have pretty detailed notes along with the 900ish photos we took between the two of us.

I may make a separate photo post once I organize all my photos and get my film photos back from my camera lab (I took a film camera with me as well).

We had an incredibly clear view of Mt. Fuji herself!

MCX 2024

Max and I will be boothing at the Mississauga Comics Expo again this year as Topaz Comics!

Hazel McCallion Central Library
301 Burnhamthorpe Rd W, Mississauga, ON
10 am to 4 pm
We’ll be selling Dead City, Gender Slices, Given & Taken books, stickers, prints, and more on the third floor! Maps of the layout have not been emailed out yet, but when they do I’ll put together a promo image for it.

Other things

My birthday’s tomorrow (November 5th) and I’m thinking of doing a giveaway for it, stay tuned!

For now, I’m done my big video game contract and I cannot wait to share this game with you all! I’m so proud of the work the team did on this.

I’m taking the rest of the year to focus on personal art, catch up on webcomic work, and post regularly to Patreon and my VIP Blog again! Things that’ll be starting up again in the next week: Alola Darumaka and The Curtain Falls!

Might make a photography portion on my blog to share some of the photography I’ve been doing as a hobby, it’s been a lot of fun!

If you’re a Lupin fan, also check out the Lupin Forum I’m back to hosting weekly prompts AND there’s sign-ups open now for our December Advent Calendar event!

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I’m so stoked to get back into personal art and comics. Join me again at the end of the month for November’s newsletter!

Updates
Illustration of Jey and Max as small wizards.

I drew Max and I as little wizards and I kinda love that for us? I made this my new DP on most other social medias.

I’m also still kind of recovering from jet lag so wasn’t able to get my October sketchbook or newsletter up yet, if you’re a $3 or more member on Patreon or my VIP Blog and you’re not continuing your pledge in November please email me so I can send you the sketchbook pdf and your shoutout request if you’re a $10 member.

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Cover image of Swim On, Blue Planet. A whale shark swims through the ocean being followed by a school of fish. The text "A shark zine for charity edited by Jey Pawlik" at the bottom.

Illustration of a necklace carpet shark seen from above, it's curled up in a circle sitting over a hoard of treasure like gems, coins, pearls, and a sword. Comic about Swell Sharks. Panel one, a sign that reads "Shark PCA" with two swell sharks next to it nuzzling each other. Narration reads "Looking for a new best friend? We have a great selection of Swell Sharks!" Panels three to five are all circular, in a row, and showing the Swell Shark glowing in the dark. Narration reads "They glow in the dark! Great for: Raves, Nightlights, The Abyssal Plane!" Panel six, narration reads "They inflate!" and we see the Swell shark sitting on top of the water all puffed up and smiling. Text reads "Have a pool party!" Panel seven, a Swell shark wearing a dog collar and barking. Text reads "Impress your friends with their ability to bark!" Panel eight, a Swell shark smiling against a retro styled background with 90s triangles around it. Narration reads "These sharks are swell!"

The pieces I did for the last Swim On zine, which you can still support! It was such a tough decision to stop Swim On after this but it’s gotten so much bigger than I ever expected and I just don’t have enough time anymore to put into it. I may come back to it at some point, but for now 10 volumes was a good place to say goodbye!

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Image with four illustrations; Inked drawing of Jigen and Zenigata kissing passionately. text reads "shoutout for Peggy". Inked drawing of the main character from ReAnimator with a syringe in his hand looking nervous, text reads "Shoutout for Gray". Inked drawing of Jigen and Lupin smiling and wearing the suits with a note that reads "Based on the suits Michelle and I wore at our wedding" and the text "Shoutout for FRNZ". Inked drawing of Zenigata eating a really delicious sandwich, small text reads "yum!" and "shoutout for Willow."

Four more shoutout requests from last year, it was really fun to draw Lupin and Jigen in the suits Max and I wore to our wedding!

Shoutouts are for my Private Collector gang on Patreon & my VIP Blog! I draw them traditionally in my sketchbook and folks get one every month.

All Art (without update posts)CommissionsFanartLupin III
Rectangular image with the text “2024 Updates, August Edition” over top of comic panel layout practice. The text “jpawlik.com/blog and patreon.com/jpawlik” is at the bottom of the image.

What a hectic month, September went by so fast!! Here’s some things I did and posted~

Here’s how you can keep up on these newsletters (they’ll always be free)
RSSMailing List | Patreon

Public September Art

I try my darndest to post something fun for free every Friday on tumblr, mastodon, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog with sketches and thumbnails up early for Patrons and VIP members!

Webcomic Updates

Two more pages from the comic Max and I did for the anthology Queer Compassion in 15 Comics, it’s a bit heavy but I’m really happy with how it turned out!

5 pages are up so far to read for free! If you want early access to pages, sketches and thumbs check out my Patreon or my VIP Blog.

Read from the beginning | Read the latest pages

For Patrons and VIP members, I’m posting pages from After Practice – a comic Max and I did for Filthy Figments a few years back that we’re allowed to post now! This’ll give me a good backlog to get back into new comics after my contract ends.

A sexy 19-page story about two older lesbians, Jan and Isabelle, who come home to a relaxing bath after flag football practice!

Read it on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog

September’s Sketchbook

This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon and my VIP Blog

I bit off a bit more than I could chew with this sketchbook but managed to get a lot done regardless! There’s some very silly doodles, concept art, an attempt at Swordtember and some very good shoutouts from my Private Collector crew.

Swim On

Swim On donations have been DONATED and the zine is still for sale if you missed it! Donations are done annually every September 30th. All proceeds go towards finfree.org and I’m covering any and all Stripe fees myself.

We made a whopping $941.00!!! The most we’ve EVER made! Thank you all for your support in this last volume, what an incredible journey. I’ll keep annually donating whatever we get even if I don’t make another zine (but who knows, maybe I’ll come back to it if I have more time down the road).

Grab Swim On 10 and all the previous volumes here

The Trans Comics Bundle #1

Today’s also the last day to support this trans-only comics bundle by DCS on itch.io!

Max and I put Given & Taken forward and y’know I’m still real proud of that comic. We’re so close to our next goal so go grab some trans comics and help support trans creators!

Written by M. Parker | Art by Jey Pawlik

Early in their partnership, Jigen is shot and when Lupin tries to help he discovers something he didn’t know about his partner. Unsure of how to react Lupin falls into old habits and is surprised when it doesn’t work out as planned.

This zine does not contain sexual content but does contain nudity and realistic depictions of an external genitalia prosthetic. Viewer discretion recommended.

Content warnings: Misgendering, language, blood, nudity, packer/dildo

Extras include: – Thanks for reading page – 2 extra comics (ft. Fujiko and Zenigata) – Turbodick specs & features – Michelle’s scripts and thumbnails (ft. my cover thumbnails)

Grab the physical copy here!

Other things

Nearing the last ten tasks on my NDA game project with some on-call work for October/November and hopefully I’ll be able to share info about the game soon!! Stay tuned.

I’m taking most of October off to work on personal art and do some fun day trips with my spouse Max. We’ve been pretty non-stop since last January so it’ll be nice to have some time to do some fun things.

I’m trying to get into photography as a hobby that I WILL NOT monetize and that’s been real fun. I’ve got a 1994 Pentax film camera, an Instax Mini 11 and a small Panasonic Lumix DSLR that I’ve been playing around with. The tough part is I always want to bring all three camera with me every where I go. Maybe I’ll post photos somewhere online at some point after I recover from being real busy.

If you’re a Lupin fan, also check out the Lupin Forum I’m hosting weekly art prompts over there, so come draw with us!

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Join me again at the end of October for my next newsletter!

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