{"id":9211,"date":"2023-04-28T18:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2023-04-28T18:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:12:28","slug":"april-2023-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/04\/28\/9211\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2023 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey it’s nearing the end of the month so here’s April’s newsletter!
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If you wanna get these newsletters in your RSS feed add this link to your feed reader<\/a>. If you’re more of an email person, hey, I’ve got a mailing list now<\/a>! Or if you don’t like either, you can follow me for free on Patreon<\/a> and get my newsletter there.<\/p>\n

April’s Oh Joy Sex Toy Comic “Sex Toy Care”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Read it here!<\/span><\/a> Coming at you hot with a review this time, if you want to get into strap-ons and don’t know where to start – this might be the comic for you! <\/span><\/p>\n

OH! AND Oh Joy Sex Toy is running a pledge drive that ends April 30th <\/strong>which will include an interview with me and the wonderful Lucy Bellwood, Hien Pham, Erika & Matthew. My 5 page extra comic is about my love of TTRPGs and I’m so incredibly proud of it! Go check out the OJST Patreon for all the deets.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

For $10 patrons,<\/a> I posted a behind the scenes about my OJST comic “A Day in the Life of an Erotic Artist”<\/a>. This includes sketches, thumbnails, my script and an indepth look at how I went about doing a commissioned hourly comics day comic.<\/p>\n

Alola Darumaka
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Read the latest pages starting here!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> Our April fools jokes and some business is to be had this month! If you’re new you can start reading here: <\/span>A<\/span>l<\/span>o<\/span>l<\/span>a<\/span> D<\/span>a<\/span>r<\/span>u<\/span>m<\/span>a<\/span>k<\/span>a<\/span><\/a> it’s a free to read 4-koma comedy comic about Darumaka and her partner Daven who’ve moved to Alola from Unova. Hijinks happen but it’s all in good fun!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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P<\/span>a<\/span>t<\/span>r<\/span>o<\/span>n<\/span>s<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>K<\/span>o<\/span>f<\/span>i<\/span> s<\/span>u<\/span>b<\/span>s<\/span>c<\/span>r<\/span>i<\/span>b<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span>s<\/span><\/a> get early access to pages 1 month before they’re posted publicly on <\/span>Topaz Comics <\/span><\/a>every Tuesday at 12pm EST<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Shop Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n

No new updates this month on the shop, but next month keep an eye out for the Dead City omnibus book! It’s big at 8.5″x11 and 194 pages!<\/p>\n

April’s Sketchbook<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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This month’s sketchbook is HERE for $5 members on Patreon<\/a> & Kofi<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s some really fun concepts in here; finished my Lord of the Makas drawings so I’ll put those all together at some point, more Mixed Drinks AU sketches – be on the lookout for the finished versions, Swim On thumbnails, cover sketch and inner pattern for 2023, a boudoir zine brainstorming session with Michelle and our good friend @thesandlord, some vintage photo sketches, and maybe the most shoutout sketches I’ve done since I started offering them! So exciting!<\/p>\n

The Curtain Falls<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Page 23 and 24 of my Lupin III fancomic \u201cThe Curtain Falls\u201d are up.<\/strong><\/a> The story follows Lupin in his 60s, dealing with the fact that nothing lasts forever and we’re nearing the end of Act 1!<\/p>\n

Commissions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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I’ve got 2 commission slots open per month<\/a>, only 2 because that might be all I can handle right now. Patrons get first dibs.<\/strong> I set up a trello board<\/a> for it too, I’m a big fan of trello boards <\/em><\/p>\n

NSFW Art<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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For my $10 Private Collector patron tier<\/a>, I posted up the first illustration in a set of 6 about Lupin and the gang’s tits. Then I posted the first page of the last chapter of “After All These Years” the Jigen\/Zenigata comic Michelle and I have been working on together. My $10 tier has a huge backlog of lewd art spanning a few years now, but if you can’t make it onto Patreon you can grab the PDF versions on my itchio<\/strong><\/a> after I collect enough pieces to make a PDF. Patreon and Itchio are the only places I’ll be posting 18+ work.<\/em><\/p>\n

TCAF
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Dead City books are HERE and they look GREAT! Join me & Michelle at TCAF (April 29-30th, 2023)<\/strong><\/a> on the second floor, booth #2083 in the Appel Salon. I’ll be bringing lots of books, stickers, prints and more!<\/p>\n

Other things<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I made a new goal on my Kofi account,<\/a> I’d like to try doing more talks for free online about how to freelance, make zines, set up a Patreon, etc. The talk I have in mind right now is about how to moderate a fandom zine or comic anthology, setting up applications, making a PDF, and sending books to print! It’ll be available on my twitch channel and then I’ll upload the VOD to youtube, and write a written format for it as well. It’s a lot of work to set things like this up so I thought putting up a Kofi goal would be the best way to crowd-source this.<\/p>\n

If you’re a Lupin fan, go check out the Lupin III forum<\/a> that I’m apart of. I’m posting art over there, and I made the jacket badges for it.<\/p>\n

I’m officially apart of the Cartoonist Cooperative<\/a>, which is a really cool community for comic artists to work on things together and share resources!<\/p>\n

On June 4th I’m getting married?!!!! So posts might be a bit slower but I’m doing my best to get a buffer going~<\/p>\n

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Another really busy month, but we made it through!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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