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!
Topaz Comics will be coming to TCAF this weekend, June 7th-8th. Join me, Max, and Amiel at booth #222 on the ice rink for books, zines, prints, stickers AND a Cartoonist Coop stamp rally! Come by and say hi this weekend!
I’ll be debuting The Curtain Falls, a 70 page comic about Lupin in his 60s! (it comes with a free postcard)
We will also have:
Dead City
Gender Slices
After All
On The Job
I Built You a Sex Machine
Things Exchanged
Given & Taken
and more!!!
We’ll have all our physical items from the Topaz Comics Shop
Very belated LupinIII.Club prompts from March! I post a new prompt every Monday, come and join us. March’s prompts were: hanging up art in the hideout, Zenigata goes to the spa (Zenispata), Fujiko cannot figure out what to pair with her new shoes, Zeni remembering one of his officer’s birthdays (he loves them all), Goemon secretly likes westerns.
Happy May everyone, maaaaay I interest you in a newsletter? My newsletters have all my comic, art, and Patreon updates from the last month!
My newsletters are always free and you can keep up with them here:
RSS | Mailing List | Patreon
Latest Public Arts
I post public art every Friday! Everything is also crossposted to tumblr, mastodon, pillowfort, bluesky 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.
I also made a SheezyArt and have been enjoying it so far, so my public art will also slowly accumulate there as well.
Webcomic Updates
The Curse Eater pilot chapter continues, we’re nearing the end of this test chapter so be sure to read it for free! The Curse Eater updates every Tuesday.
Read the latest pages | Read from the beginning | Read the whole chapter on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog
THE CURTAIN FALLS HAS WRAPPED UP!
I started outlining and thumbnailing Curtains in 2020, then started the art for it in 2022 and now it’s complete! I’m so very proud of it. It was very ambitious for me, because thumbnailing a car chase isn’t quite the same as DRAWING the car chase.
The books have been paid for and are currently in production to be (hopefully) done in time for TCAF on June 7th-8th. Afterwards the PDF and book will be up and available in the Topaz Shop!
Read on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog
For Grab Bag folks I got hit with a bout of inspiration for some HRT Diary comics, so those will be going out every Tuesday for $1+ members for a bit before being available publicly starting in July.
Read on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog
My short illustration series “Lupin & Tits” has wrapped up for Private Collectors AND they also got the latest volume in my Hot & Spicy collection – hey did you know the $10 tier also includes my entire nsfw archive as well?
Read it on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog
May’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon and my VIP Blog
May’s sketchbook is here! Lots and lots of concept art this month, I’ve got two new comics in the brainstorming stage right now — one that will be a long public webcomic written by me, the other will be a $10 Patreon exclusive nsfw comic written by Max so look out for that! And of course some great shoutouts this month, thank to you the Private Collectors for your support.
Cool Comic Recommendation
Pia & The Little Things by Clover
Pia & The Little Things is such a delightful webcomic with absolutely gorgeous artwork, beautiful illustrations in-between chapters of various bugs, moths, and other little critters, and I’m so excited to see what happens next! It’s very light and slice-of-life with a bits of drama and intrigue sprinkled in.
I had Pia on the mind this month because Clover let me use it as an example in my RSS talk so I just want to sing its praises a bit. Please go read it (and add it to your RSS reader of choice~)
TCAF 2025
Because it’s in a new location this year (just a block of College Station) we don’t have a map or booth numbers yet but we will be there selling everything we have available in the Topaz Shop AND MORE!
New things debuting at TCAF!! YEAH!!
– The Curtain Falls, my 70 page Lupin III fancomic about Lupin in his 60s. Every book comes with a free postcard!
– I Built You a Sex Machine, a 20 page NSFW comic written by Max about two older lesbians and a hand made sex machine!!
– Amiel’s Moka Pot zine, a mini zine about moka pots!!!
Hey and just for you newsletter readers, come by the booth for a small gift as thanks for following!
Nib & Ink Fest 2025
May 31st is the last day of the Cartoonist Coop’s big month long online event!
NIF has been so exciting and great to be a part of. I’m on the promo committee for it and spent a lot of this year writing up social media posts for the Coop’s socials to post.
The PDF copy of Dead City is available in the NIF shop plus so many other cool comics! AND you can still watch my talk “RSS & You” I hope I can convince some folks to give RSS a shot. All the talks are available even after NIF is over on the youtube channel.
June Schedule
Here’s June’s schedule as I try and keep it fairly consistent!
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
Other Things
Max and I will be ‘tabling’ at the online convention Citrus Con! I’ll update you with info as it comes out but we’ll have some sales going on for comics and commissions that weekend.
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.
Photography corner will return!
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Whoa, what a month! Onwards into June and THE SUMMER!
“August 1967, found Gramps’ camera”
Now that The Curtain Falls has wrapped up (please go read it) today starts a new Lupin project I’ve been working on for a while called “Treasures of Time” This will be a pretty large illustration set themed around square photos taken by Lupin and co.
I want to get better at illustrations so I thought this would be a fun way to think about interactions and stories within a single piece. They won’t be in any particular order and I don’t have a set number in mind to end at so I’ll draw them until I run out of ideas. They’ll go up every Wednesday for $5+ up folks and I may pick some to post publicly to promo it (like this one). All patreon posts will come with a sketch and thumbnail. So join me on this photo journey because I’m really proud of it so far~
Back when CanadaPost went on strike I had two shop orders in limbo the whole time and as thanks for their patience (I did offer a refund but they both wanted to wait) I doodled them each a drawing. I always forget to take photos of the doodles I do for Patrons in shop orders but I remembered these ones!
*Ohyeah patrons get a doodle in any book they order btw~
**But Canada Post might go on strike again today so we’ll see if I’ll be able to send out orders at all
A Lupin for my good pal Amiel for his birthday this year!
Some Darumaka doodles I decided to clean and colour!
Happy Webcomic Day!
I’ll be posting throughout the day on social media, but for you here’s the big full post.
Want to read some queer comics written and drawn by some queer folks for free?! I’m Jey Pawlik, and with my spouse Max Parker, we’ve got hundreds of pages in our archive, like the post-apocalyptic gay romance Dead City, the nonbinary autobio series Gender Slices, a 4-koma comedy comic about Darumaka and Lupin III fancomics.
Or see sketches, thumbnails, and pages 2 months early on Patreon
The Alola Darumaka Process
Here’s my process for Alola Darumaka using the ScreentonesCast template showing my traditional sketch, digital inks, colours, and halftone effects.
Dead City
Dead City is a completed post-apocalypse gay romance comic that focuses more on survival and human connection than the zombie aspect of the genre. Written by Max, this was our first comic project that we started in 2013 and finished in 2020! It’s still available to read online, but a newer fancy version was made into a book last year.
https://topazcomics.com/deadcity/welcome
The Curtain Falls Process
My Patreon exclusive comic “The Curtain Falls”, a 50 page Lupin III comic about Lupin in his 60s and coming to terms that nothing lasts forever. The comic is wrapping up THIS WEEK with printing and a digital PDF on the horizon, so I wanted to promo that today as well! Sign up on Patreon to read the whole comic!
More birds I saw last year! I was very close to that chickadee which was an absolute delight. It was right above my head.
