Four black and white illustrations on one image, all done traditionally. "Shoutout for TLC" of Cryptid from Jey and Max's forthcoming comic Cryptid Likes Beer, where he's sitting at a bar with some mozzarella sticks and a flight of four different beers excitedly. "Shoutout for Rett" where Jigen in a trench coat is writing something in a notebook and looking over his shoulder at Zenigata in the background who's chatting away. "Shoutout for Toby" Lupin and Zenigata on vacation together, wearing vacation outfits and sharing a fancy milkshake. "Shoutout for Peggy" Zenigata excitedly opening his wallet which has many photos of his daughter, who's also beside him and shocked by the baby photos.

Four black and white illustrations on one image, all done traditionally. "Shoutout for Jonnie" Jigen wearing a cowboy outfit and smoking, he's smiling and tipping his hat up with a finger. "Shoutout for Richard" where an older Lupin is getting a kiss on the cheek from Jigen, their designs are both from Jey's fancomic "The Curtain Falls". "Shoutout for Peggy" where Jigen is laying in the grass with his hands behind his head and smiling down at Goemon who's napping on Jigen's stomach. "Shoutout for TLC" of their original characters, both holding pride flags in their mouths and smiling at one another.

Eight shoutout requests from my Private Collectors on https://patreon.com/jpawlik and https://jpawlik.com/vipblog some real fun ones this time! Some very good Jigen ships this time. Did you know I like drawing Jigen???!

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!

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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!

Join the coop today!


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!

Updates
Character lineup for "Dead City". "JP Rybakov" is a fat man of colour with shaggy black hair and a thick beard, he's wearing a blue polo shirt and jeans with grey socks. The pride flag beside him is the progress flag. "Mikael Berg" is a thinner white man with red hair pulled back in a headband, he's wearing a big sweatshirt, pink sweatpants and thick tube socks. The pride flag beside him is the bi flag.
I wanted to post these throughout the month but was way too busy, so here’s a special Pride bundle of Pride characters from the webcomics I’ve worked on and am starting to work on!
Dead City – Mikael and JP, you know them, you love them, and if you don’t you can go read the finished webcomic about their zombie apocalypse meet-cute!
Alola Darumaka – Daven and Leif (and their partners) also available to read for free right now although it’s not complete yet, and while queerness isn’t part of the story, I still wanted to showcase their identities! A silly low-stakes 4-koma comic about Darumaka.
The Curse Eater – The pilot chapter just wrapped up which you can read for free here. Max and I are still building the world for this, so parts are still up in the air and nothing is really set in stone. HOWEVER, like all our other stories, it’ll be queer!
Clitrina Cosmos – A sexy webcomic coming to a Patreon (mine) near you by Max and I. It’s going to be silly, fun, sexy, and of course unapologetically gay! Private Collector members can already see some concept art for this~
In Search Of Analogue Days – I really wanted to announce my next big solo project during pride and here we are! ISO will be a public, free to read webcomic (with pages up early for Patrons) about an older trans woman who’s lost sight of her passion for photography and finds herself in film. Keep your eyes out, okay?
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Promo image showing Topaz Comics at Citrus Con 2025, June 20th to 22nd @ citruscon.com online and free to attend! Topaz Comics is booth AA41, with an itch.io sale as well as shop and commission freebies. The background looks like a Japanese festival stall with fireworks. To the right of the stall are three cropped images showing; a panel from Dead City where Mikael and JP kiss for the first time, a panel from After All where Zenigata is saying "I can't last any longer" and Jigen replying "Do it. I want to see you." and a third crop of an erotic commission where all the sexy bits are cropped out and we just see three men having a good time.

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.

Updates
Character sheet for Salvator Ozmen and Vasilios Rotulus from The Curse Eater. Salvator is a smarmy looking slender man with long black hair pulled back into a low pony tail, he's a person of colour with vitiligo which is more prominent on his left side. Salvator is wearing a headband and a bandana, a big gold necklace, a black high collared under shirt with a light coloured simple jacket on top. He's wearing a blue sash that goes over his jacket which holds a leather pouch, a short sword, and a large gold belt. He's got simple brown pants and high black boots. Vasilios is a dignified fat man of colour with straight grey hair that frames his face and ends around his chin. He's wearing a conical hat that has a symbol on the front that looks like a wizard hat logo. His outfit consists of a short fancy cape that wraps around his shoulders, a pink tunic that ends above his knees, gloves, a sash that goes around his waist, poofy purple pants and lighter purple tights underneath. His shoes are slip-ons that curl up at the toe.

Same art as the previous image but in halftones. Same art as the previous images but in solid greyscale.

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!

Want to see the sketches and thumbs for The Curse Eater? They’re up on Patreon for just a $1 a month!

 

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