This year on Patreon I’ve been doing shoutout requests every month. How it works is every month a $10 patron can DM me with a small request, it can be Mikael and JP, the patron’s OC, fanart of other fictional characters, etc. Then I’ll draw it up and it’ll appear in my sketchbook pdf for them for that month. It’s been a lot of fun to see what people will ask me to draw and brings me out of my comfort zone a little.
There are a few things I’ll refuse. I won’t draw any gore, nsfw, homophobia, certain characters of mine that I’m more personal about (ask me if you’re unsure), and I will not draw myself.
Our first Dead City one shot for y’all! There’s a few little shorts like this that couldn’t make it in to the final comic so we thought we’d share and draw them for you anyway!
Hope you enjoy!
What other kinds of one-shots would you like seeing?
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Ending two long-standing webcomics in one year is a lot.
But I’m so happy with how Dead City turned out.
I love these boys so much and I never could have made it this far without my partner Michelle who stuck with me through the whole thing and wrote such a great wholesome comic.
I know a lot of people were expecting more from it. More zombies, more action, more drama, but that’s not really what Dead City was about. We knew from the start that it was going to be pretty zombie-free, we wanted to focus more on the characters and them growing closer than make it another “Walking Dead”. Mikael and JP would meet, grow closer, fall in love, journey through Toronto to JP’s fancy apartment and be safe together with a hint of hope at the end that everything’s going to work out.
This was a way for Michelle and I to learn how to create comics together and it was never going to be a 1000 page epic, we didn’t want that for our first story but even still it did manage to get pretty long at 330 pages.
I also think ending it during a world pandemic is pretty powerful. It’s hopeful. Everything’s going to be alright!
I hope everyone enjoyed our first comic and I’m really looking forward to what’s up and coming for us in the future! In the mean time you can check out all the Dead City art I’ve posted up here while we take a break before posting up some one-shot comics for y’all!
I can’t thank everyone enough for reading this and supporting us. Thank you!
I made a meme template for people to suggest styles for me to draw some OCs in just like my JP one. So here’s Mikael with suggestions from Twitter and Instagram!
I asked for clothing suggestions for my OCs over on Twitter and they did not disappoint! I’m just very slow at posting art memes.
A new AU idea Michelle and I came up with and I’m super into it!
I’ve had my new tablet for over a week now and I gotta say I love it way more than I thought I would! Here’s some tests using lbispaint, Artflow, Medibang, and Infinite Painter:
We said goodbye to Smackjeeves and want to thank everyone who followed us during our 6 years there. The new format will longer let us post pages at 750px so we’ve decided to cut our losses and just post on: topazcomics.com
tapas.io/series/deadcit
patreon.com/jpawlik/
Really fun sketches I did a while back while thinking of a vampire au for Mikael and JP!
I thought I posted this already but it seems I hadn’t. I must have put it off because I drew this before Mikael’s hairstyle changed in the comic.
I’ve drawn JP’s brother, Dimitri, before but I’ve known for a long time that he and Mikael would get along really well. But overall, Dimitri would just be happy for JP for finding someone.
I wish I could put more of JP and Demi’s relationship in the comic!
