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Webcomic Day

Promo image, with the Topaz Comics logo at the top in browns and warm gold tones. Under it reads "Queer comics by a queer duo" and the link topazcomics.com below that are four floating heads with comic titles logos above them. The first is Mikael and JP from Dead City, the second is Jey from Gender Slices, the third is Darumaka from Alola Darumaka, and the last is Jigen from our one-shots.

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.

Start reading on Topaz Comics

Or see sketches, thumbnails, and pages 2 months early on Patreon

The Alola Darumaka Process

Comic page split into four quadrants showing the sketch, inks, colours, and halftone effects on an Alola Darumaka page. The comic itself is four panels done in black line art with four shades of dusty pink. Panel one shows Darumaka sitting and doodling on a piece of paper with an Alolan Meowth napping behind her, Darumaka is humming with a little music note beside her. Panel two, Darumaka is still drawing and another Meowth has appeared behind her and is napping. Panel three, Darumaka has her hands up saying "Hey!" as a Meowth lays down in front of her and on her drawing. Panel four, Darumaka still with her hands up looks angrier saying "Gah!" as she is now surrounded by Meowths napping around her, heat lines coming off her body which just gathers more Meowths to her.

Here’s my process for Alola Darumaka using the ScreentonesCast template showing my traditional sketch, digital inks, colours, and halftone effects.

 

Dead City

The book cover "Dead City", drawn with choppy black line art and coloured with greens, blacks and yellows, showing Mikael and JP kneeling next to one another holding their own backpack straps with a dark Toronto skyline behind them as the sun sets. The bottom reads "Michelle Parker and Jey Pawlik"Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, Mikael is walking over to the couch and JP asks "Are you okay?" and Mikael responds "Yeah?". Panel two, Mikael has sat down on the couch, wine glass in hand. JP asks "Are you drunk?", and Mikael replies "YESS!" Panel three shows a medium close up of JP saying "Isn't that a bad idea with all the zombies around?" Panel four is a close up of Mikael's drunk but smiling face, he says "You didn't mind last time" a bit seductively. Panel five is a similar shot but a close up of JP's face saying "But-- we should still be careful." Panel six pulls out and shows both boys on the couch together. Mikael saying "It's been ages since we saw one and they're all slow and clumsy now." JP says "Now?" Panel seven shows just Mikael from the waist up holding his wine glass saying "Right, you weren't out at the beginning."

Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, a flashback to Mikael hunkered down in his dark messy apartment as the TV is the only source of light and narration reads “There used to be a lot and they were fast and violent.” Panel two, present day Mikael and he’s happily saying “But since they’re dead they rot, right?”. Panel three, flashback again to Mikael out in a dark warehouse where he’s searching through boxes. Narration reads “One time I was out looking for food” the sentence is left hanging over panel four, which shows a scared Mikael looking over his shoulder and the sound effect “Wok!” above his head.Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, a continuation of the previous page’s flashback where Mikael is face to face with a zombie who’s decomposing and slowly meanering passed him, not noticing him at all. The narration reads “and one walked right past me! It didn’t have any eyes.” Panel two, back to the present showing Mikael lounging on the couch with JP next to him. JP asks “So the ones now are all rotted?” and Mikael smiles saying “Right!” Panel three, a close up of JP pouring himself a glass of wine on the coffee table in front of the couch while he says “Alright.”

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

https://topazcomics.com/shop

 

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!

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TRANS COMICS

Cover of "Gender Slices". A drawing of myself is split into three panels. The first being my forehead in blue. The second is my eyes in purple. The third is my mouth and chin in pink. The title "Gender Slices" is at the top The background is a wave of white, blue and pink, being the trans colours. My name "Jey Pawlik" is at the bottom.

Let me thread you up some TRANS COMICS I’ve worked on over the years!

Gender Slices is my autobio comic that I started in 2016 which became a graphic novel upon it’s completion. I’m currently doing a small HRT Diary follow up!

Pages are up for free at: topazcomics.com/genderslices/vol1  Comic page done in black and white with a simple style. Panel one, a coworker stands next to Jey and says “It’s just hard to get used to calling you Jey.” Panel two, Jey puts a hand out like they’re introducing themself for the first time while saying “What if I reintroduce myself? Hi, my name is Jey and I use they/them pronouns? Nice to meet you!” Panel three, we zoom out to show the coworker and Jey, while Jey asks “Did that help?” and the coworker replies “yeah actually.” Black and white comic with three panels. Panel one, narration reads “Lately,” as a friend tells Jey that “Your voice is deeper!” while Jey smiles. Panel two, a family member looking at Jey says “Your moustache is really coming in!” while Jey smiles, narration over the bottom of the panel reads “Friends and family have been pointing out my changes”. Panel three, a close up of Jey happily holding their face with their hands as we see more moustache hairs on their face. Narration reads “It’s nice to know someone other than myself sees them. It makes it feel more real!”  

I have oh so many comics about trans joy over on ohjoysextoy.com/category/jeypawlik and I am so grateful to Oh Joy Sex Toy for giving me so much space to autobio about being trans! Promo image of multiple thumbnails from my Oh Joy Sex Toy Comics. Life drawing class, Gee Whizzard, Navigating Menstruation while Trans, Reminiscing with the WeVive Tango, What If I Said I Liked You?, Shirtless At Last, What’s In a Name?, Growing Up Without Sex-Ed, A Day In The Life of An Erotic Artist, Packer Gear TPR Packer Review, Make Your Own Food, and Headcanons.

My one page comic for the “When I Was Me” anthology. A moment between myself and one of my niblings at the cottage. He was quite pleased when I’d told him I did a comic about us! www.quindriepress.com/books/p/wiwm Up on a lake I'm sitting on a paddle board with my six year old nephew. As he's staring off into the distance, thinking deeply about something he asks me "Jey, you're not a girl like mommy are you?" I'm clearly excited to be having this conversation with him and respond "No, I'm not a girl but I'm also not a boy like you or your dad." My nephew thinks about this and says "Okay! And you can still be my first-mate right?". I tell him "Of course, Captain!" where I'm beaming with excitement over his response as we paddle on wards!

My first big anthology was “We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology” (that won a 2019 Ignatz) I’d written this during the limbo period between names and waiting for my new birth certificate. Comic page, a transmasc individual walks through an LCBO (Canada's government owned liquor store). They walk through the aisles lined with wine bottles. Their phone begins to vibrate and we see it's "Theo" with a photo that shows these two are twins. Our protagonist picks up the phone: Hey bro. Yeah, they have it. Anything else? They pause and we do not hear what Theo is saying but it takes our protagonist off guard. They respond: Uh! No, I haven't seen it. They're now very nervous and sweaty but walk up to the cash. Still on the phone they say: When I get home I'll help you look for it. Yeah. Okay. Bye. The cashier deadpan asks: You got ID? Our protagonist looks nervously away and then back to the cashier with a fake smile. They say: Y-yeah! One sec! In their wallet, they have their Ontario Driver's License which shows an old photo that no longer looks like our short haired, sideburned protagonist. The name reads "Diana Jolie Archer" and the sex is "F". However, they pull out a second ID from behind it that looks more like our protagonist and reads "Theodore Joel Archer" with the sex being "M", the implied missing object from the phone conversation. The cashier holds the ID up to our protagonist and okay's it. Our main character sighs with relief as they leave the store with a paper bag. They say: It's only for one more week. As they anticipate their new ID to come in.

Given & Taken is a short fancomic written by @octokracken and might still be one of my favourite comics we’ve done together.

It’s “Jigen is trans and Lupin finds out” the comic.

It’s for sale as a PDF or physical copy https://topazcomics.com/shop/product-tag/given-taken/ Cover of "Given and Taken" with the title at the top of the image. The background is black, there's a rectangle in the middle with an illustration of Lupin holding up a bikini magazine over Jigen's torso, Lupin is confused and Jigen is annoyed. Below the illustration reads "Michelle Parker and Jey Pawlik"

Trans media is important and if you can’t find them from the big corps, remember there’s always indie folks who’re doing the good work! Representation is out there!

I’m cookin’ up some stuff over on Patreon, and my work is ALWAYS going to be queer!

Updates

Top surgery is HAPPENING!

I applied for top surgery in late 2017 and after three frustrating years I’m finally getting it done on November 20th!

I’ve been holding off on going public about it because I was worried something would cancel or postpone it – but no, it’s happening and it’s a week away!

While I’m recovering I won’t be able to work/draw as much so I’m putting freelancing on hold for now and I’m doing my best to get a Patreon buffer so I won’t have to put that on pause.

If you want to send some support Patreon is the best way to do it (and you get cool rewards) but I also have a kofi and commissio!

Wish me luck y’all!

 

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Happy Pride Month: Intro to my work & support




Happy PRIDE ya’ll! I wanted to make a sort of intro comic about myself and what I’m all about. I draw queer comics and I want to continue to do so for as long as I can!

All the places you can follow and support my work, or contact me:

Email Email me about work or questions
Topaz Comics Website for Dead City & Gender Slices
Shop Online store for books, stickers, and more!
Art Blog professional art blog where every piece is posted
Patreon Pledge to support my work and get rewards
Ko-Fi Tip Jar
Twitter Professional Twitter
Gumroad Charity Zines edited by myself
Commiss.io Commission information
Instagram Sketches and WIPs
Youtube Animations
Tapas.io Mirror site for my comics

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Dead City & Gender Slices books are HERE!

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Happy 5th Anniversary Dead City!

To celebrate we’ve launched the Topaz Comics Shop where you can pre-order the Dead City and Gender Slices books!

Pre-orders will be open until November 16th.

Books will be sent to print on November 19th.

Pre-orders will be mailed out December 10th.

Visit the store here!

If you’re from Toronto be sure to hit up the Glad Day Book Store where copies of Dead City and Gender Slices are now available!

Apologies for the delay in comics, we were working hard to get our shop front up (as well as getting over a cold).

Comic updates will resume on Tuesday!

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Gender Slices: A comic about Dean

A while back I did a mini Gender Slices comic: “Dean”. The story of how I got my first taste into defying gender stereotypes. I was about 8 and it was 1998 so things were pretty different. I still have Dean and he’ll remind me of all I’ve been through and how far I’ve come!

A few people asked for it to be posted as a whole so here it is!

Gender Slices can be read on Topaz Comics & Tumblr, as well as early access pages on Patreon!

Gender Slices: is an autobio comic about my own thoughts an experiences with gender and identity. I am nonbinary and use they/them pronouns.

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