There’s a holiday event going on over at lupiniii.club where each day a piece of fanart or fic is revealed, along with a prompt! Other folks can join in if they want and do a piece for the daily prompt, which is chosen by the artist of the day! It’s been real fun to sketch these in my sketchbook every day so far.
Day three was my day to post my big piece, and my prompt was “shopping”.
Four shoutouts for my Private Collector gang, it’s always really fun to draw folks’ ocs and some cute Lupin/Jigens!
Every month that someone pledges to the Private Collector tier on Patreon, they get an inked doodle shoutout that appears in my monthly sketchbook, usually waist up and a max of two characters. The request acts as mini commissions and folks can ask for their OCs, my OCs, or any kind of fanart.
November is always such a busy month with my birthday, my spouse’s birthday and our anniversary! This year we also tabled and had just a lot of work happening!
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Public November Art
I post something publicly every Friday (and sometimes extras) and these can be seen & shared on my various socials: tumblr, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog with sketches and thumbnails up early for patrons and then for free members 2 months later.
Webcomic Updates
All four pages of a short Lupin III comic that Michelle and I did for the fanzine “Between Heists” collection are up!
Now that “Between Heists” is complete, I’ve got two Lupin Zero pages to post. One of which is already up to read for free.
The Grab Bag tier on Patreon & Kofi got a new page of my Lupin III fancomic “The Curtain Falls”, a comic about Lupin in his 60s. Pages go up when I finish them but it’s usually every other Wednesday.
Read on Patreon | Read on Kofi
The Private Collector tier on Patreon also got another “After All” page, a NSFW Jigen/Zenigata comic written by Michelle. It’s heatin’ up in here!
Also posted up an OJST behind the scenes for Private Collectors. This month’s was for “Reminiscing with the WeVibe Tango” and talking about the tools and brushes I use for my comics.
Read the comic on OJST | Read the Behind the Scenes on Patreon
November’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon & Kofi
November’s sketchbook is done and here! 28 pages this month with some original comic concept art, life drawing, a bunch of cute Maka doodles, and thumbnails for some projects I’m working on! Plus, as always, very good shoutout requests from the Private Collector crew!
MCX 2023
Other things
– Michelle and I have a 5 page comic in the upcoming Mon Marie zine, sign up for updates on the preorder here (photo from Tsushi’s tumblr post)
– I’ve move to fulltime work on the big contract I’m working on!
– I’m now a part of the Adult Artists Webring. Check it out, there’s some real great artists there!
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I’ll be back with another newsletter at the end of December, so until then happy holidays everyone!
Got a bunch of Lupin sketches from my sketchbooks together to make some little art dumps so be on the lookout for more of these on here and early access on Patreon
Quick coloured doodle based on this post I saw on tumblr and it was too funny to pass up.
M. Parker and Jey Pawlik (Topaz Comics) will be at MCX this year at booth 103!
Living Arts Centre
4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
Sun Nov 19
10 am – 4 pm
Free Admission!
We’ll have merch from our shop for sale. A sketch challenge at 11am & an author talk at 1:30pm about running a comics anthology or fanzine!
Come see us!
I’ve been very very slowly playing through TOTK and having a really great time meandering about and also sitting at the couch while my spouse plays too (xey’re much farther than I am)
Hey it’s my birthday so I want to plug my comics!
Alola Darumaka: A 4-koma slice-of-life comic about Daven and his rambunctious partner Pokemon, Darumaka! Daven and Darumaka move to Alola for school. Is Alola ready for Darumaka?
One-shots: One-shot comics just for fun! Various 1-6 page stand alone stories. Includes: original, fanart (mostly Lupin III) and miscellaneous characters.
Dead City: A zombie apocalypse has hit Toronto and Mikael and JP are alone in the city and struggling to survive. While they’re searching for food and shelter they find something else as well.
Gender Slices: A collection of short autobiographical comics about being trans and nonbinary in a ciscentric world. Jey works through their own feelings in short, one page comics that depict their day to day experience.
These are all available to read for free over on https://topazcomics.com!
Oh Joy Sex Toy (NSFW): My autobio comics for the website ohjoysextoy.com where I discuss sex-ed, toy reviews, and navigating life as a trans/nonbinary person. Also available to read for free!
Patreon Exclusives @ https://patreon.com/jpawlik
$1: 2 month early access to my one-shot comics and Alola Darumaka including sketches and thumbnails (plus any illustrations that I’ll be posting on social media)
$5: The Curtain Falls, a Lupin III fancomic about Lupin in his 60s dealing with aging and changes. Pages are posted as I complete them (usually every other Wednesday). Plus my monthly sketchbook PDF.
$10: Any NSFW comics and illustrations. I’m currently working on a NSFW Jigen/Zenigata comic. Pages go up every other Thursday. This tier also gets a monthly art request!
Some very good shoutouts from the $10 gang on Patreon!
Happy Halloween everyone, enjoy this month’s newsletter!
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Public October Art
I post something publicly every Friday (and sometimes extras) and these can be seen & shared on my various socials: tumblr, twitter, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog with sketches and thumbnails up early for patrons and for free members 2 months later.
My Ghost Files piece appeared on the Ghost Files Debrief on October 27th and that was super cool!
Webcomic Updates
I finished posting my 7 page comic “Loom”. This is a silent comic written by Clark Moreau for the Twisting Time Anthology.
Now that Loom is complete, I’m posting a short Lupin III comic that Michelle and I did for the fanzine “Between Heists” collection. Two pages are up already and there’s two more to go, updates Tuesdays at 12pmEST
The Grab Bag tier on Patreon got a few more pages of my Lupin III fancomic “The Curtain Falls”, a comic about Lupin in his 60s. Pages go up when I finish them but it’s usually every other Wednesday.
The Private Collector tier on Patreon also got another “After All” page, a NSFW Jigen/Zenigata comic written by Michelle. It’s heatin’ up in here!
October’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is HERE for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon
October’s sketchbook is pretty big this month at a whopping 30 pages! I’m only now coming back up to my full art potential after hurting my wrist last year. This month’s PDF includes a work life drawing session, lots of Makas in Halloween costumes, and some item concepts for a new original comic Michelle and I have been brainstorming! Plus, of course, some very good shoutout requests from my Private Collector folks!
MCX 2023
The Mississauga Comic Expo is BACK and happening on November 19th this year at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga! It’s free to enter, and Michelle and I will be there as Topaz Comics with all our books and wares!
I’ll be doing a sketch challenge in the theatre at 11am, and then my newest talk “Creating Comic Anthologies and Fanzines” at 1:30pm in the same theatre! Come visit us (booth number TBA)
Other things
– November 5th is my birthday! 33 babeeeeey
– I started HRT after years of debating. Comics are in the works!
– I recovered from covid and it doesn’t look like there’s been any long term side effects for me. I was pretty worried and anxious about that.
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Talk to y’all again at the end of November!
