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!
For the last two years I’ve been drawing Darumaka in little Halloween costumes (here’s 2021 and 2022’s) so I hope you enjoy this year’s crop of Darumakas!
Hey also go read the Darumaka Halloween comic I drew in 2019, it’s free to read and it’s super cute!
Hey I did some Ghost Files skeptic fanart and it appeared on the show!
We Investigated The Haunted Home of the Duyck Family • Ghost Files Debrief
This was really fun to work on and, as a skeptic myself, I wanted to do up a piece for our side of the show with a bunch of reasons for noises, shapes and glowing eyes. The raccoon is 100% a reference to S2 ep1.
Also check out my Patreon for the sketch & thumbnail of this piece for free
A little gift I did for EK Weaver in thanks for doing a quote for the back of the Dead City Omnibus! If you haven’t read Shot & Chaser, you should absolutely go do that (read it here!)
I’ve had some extra time to get some old art cleaned up for postin’ so here’s a few for you on this fine Friday! And hey, if you haven’t read my webcomic “Alola Darumaka” that I do with my partner, stop and go read it!!
Illustration of a blocky tiger done in dark blue lines with trans flag coloured stripes and an orange body with a cream underbelly. It’s laying on it’s shoulders with it’s feet curled in and it’s tail up in the air. It’s body is following the rectangular shape of the canvas.
An idea I’ve had for a while, even before Zero, but after Zero came out I thought that’d be the perfect way to present the idea.
This page in particular, the dialogue has been floating around in my head for probably well over a year now.
Also testing out TrueGrit’s halftone machine on this comic and… I gotta say y’all, I kinda love it! I’ve been wanting to do more halftone work but haven’t been able to find a look I like or a method that fits well with my workflow.
