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Max (xey/xem) is the writer for Topaz Comics, Dead City, Alola Darumaka and many anthology stories.
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"

Dead City Omnibus Book is HERE!

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Dead City books are HERE and up in the Topaz Comics shop!

The complete story of Dead City is here in a big and beautiful omnibus. The book is a remastered version of the finished webcomic with new lettering and bigger pages. Now with 19 extra pages of concept art, short comics, sketches and extra art.

Trapped in a hostile city full of danger, can two men overcome their differences and stay alive? How will their feelings develop when all they can rely on is each other?

A zombie apocalypse has hit Toronto and Mikael and JP are alone in the city and struggling to survive. While they’re searching for food and shelter they fine something else as well.

A heartwarming romance about two very different men learning to work together. As their time together grows so do their feelings in this slow-burn, slice-of-life comic that flips the common apocalypse story on its head.

Special thanks to @byelacey & @bigbigtruck for their wonderful quotes on the back of the book!

Lupin’s Gourmet World: Eggnog

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Michelle and I did a comic for the Lupin’s Gourmet World zine. How it worked was chef’s submitted recipes and an artist got paired up to each recipe to illustrate it. We got Sel’s eggnog recipe, which I did actually make myself successfully! Michelle also had some pickle recipes in the zine and will be making those into a mini recipe-zine later on so be on the look out!

 

 

Business Maka Part 3

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We conclude the Business saga… for now. I’m still so tickled by Michelle’s “raises” joke.
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Business Maka Part 2

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A bit late in the day but I did manage to get this DONE!

Enjoy part 2 of Business Maka, because Michelle and I love her.

Her phone is absolutely this:

For just $1/month you can see these pages 1 month before they’re posted here (including sketches and thumbnails) on Patreon and Kofi

A comic redraw from the third page of Alola Darumaka, but this time Galar Darumaka stands on a pier waving her hands saying "hello!" as her partner Darla stands next to her with a suitcase saying "Hello, you must be Leif. I'm Darla." It's an April Fools joke that the comic is about Galar Darumaka instead of Unova Darumaka.

Alola Darumaka Reboot – 2

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Part 2/2 of today’s update; be sure to check the previous page if you haven’t! Alola Darumaka Reboot: A 4-koma slice-of-life comic about Darla and her rambunctious partner Pokemon, Darumaka! Darla and Darumaka move to Alola for school. Is Alola ready for Darumaka?
We are super excited to continue sharing this comic with you for this month, we hope you like what we have so far!

Happy April Fools, thanks for playing along and we hope everyone has a fun April 1st!

A redraw of the original cover page for Alola Darumaka but now Galar Darumaka is standing on a sandy beach with the comic title above her.

Alola Darumaka Reboot – 1

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Update 1/2 for today, be sure to click ahead for the next page. Hello everyone, big news today: we’ve rebranded Alola Darumaka! Going forward you’ll be seeing the adventures of Darumaka from the Galar region on adventures in Alola!

Happy April Fools, thanks for playing along and we hope everyone has a fun April 1st!

Dream Life

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In which we learn that Daven is like that one friend who’s really into dolphins and their house is just dolphin paraphernalia. Except in Daven’s case it’s all Darumaka.

Because how can you not?!

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New Best Friend Part 6

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And that wraps up Maka’s chalk adventure. If you haven’t go check out the earlier pages in this mini saga
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Chalk Adventure Part 5

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Maka inspires her new best friends to express their feelings with chalk!
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New Best Friend Part 5

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A new best friends comic within our chalk adventures! We love Team Skull in this house! And a happy Valentine’s day everyone!
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In My Sights – 4

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Page 4/4 of the comic we did for the Lupin/Zenigata zine: Love & War. I’m so pleased with how this comic turned out, I don’t usually colour comics but this needed the pop of colour especially on this page. Thanks for reading. Alola, Darumaka will return next week!
Behind the scenes can be seen over on Patreon for $1

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