Gender Slices has made it to 200 pages!
I never thought I’d do this. I didn’t think this little comic about scenes from my life would become anything, but it did! It got bigger than I thought, bigger than I could handle at times.
Thank you for sticking with me this long and reading about my life and experiences with gender, being trans/nonbinary, changing pronouns, all of it. It’s been such a great experience for me. I officially finished the art for Gender Slices in March 2019, so about a year ago now. I needed it all done by TCAF 2019 so I could sell the big Gender Slices book. I worked so hard to get all 200 pages done. I worked Monday-Friday for about three months, drawing these pages in my sketchbooks to have the book done in time. I’ve chosen to end it here.
I picked page 200 because it would be a nice clean end. It’s bittersweet and I wish I could keep it going forever, but it had to end. It just became bigger than I thought, and while I’ve read every single comment – it just got to be a bit too much after a while. I got so many great comments, stories, congratulations, but also a lot of hate and anger towards my comics too. It wore me down for a while. So I decided it was time to say goodbye.
I’m so excited to work on new and better projects, and I hope I can come back to autobio stuff; whether it be as a zine, or a large format book. I hope y’all will stick by me and see what’s coming up next! I think you’ll like it!
Also join me on April 22, 2020 at 6pm EST/3pm PST on twitch.tv/jeypawlik for a special Gender Slices livestream! Check out the news section here on Topaz, or on my twitter for updates on that. Hope to see you there!
So thank you so much, every one of you! You’re all valid and good luck on your own gender adventure ❤
Your friend,
Jey