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November 2025 Newsletter & Glad Day Author’s Fair

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November has come and gone, but here’s some art and comic updates for y’all~

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ALSO Join us November 30th at 32 Lisgar, Toronto for the first ever Glad Day Local Author Book Fair from 12pm-6pm!

 

August 2025 Newsletter

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Rectangular image with the text “2025 Updates, August Edition” over top of a film photo showing a line of trees and a lake. The text “jpawlik.com/blog and patreon.com/jpawlik” is at the bottom of the image.

Hey hey I’m back and here’s August’s newsletter of updates! My August newsletter is up and it’s got all the comic updates I’ve been working on + some previews for stuff on my Patreon, comic recs, shop updates and more!

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July 2025 Newsletter

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Hey everyone, hope you had a good July and your summer isn’t too hot so far. My July Newsletter is up and it’s got all the comic updates I’ve been working on + some previews for stuff on my Patreon, comic recs, announcements, and more!!

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Topaz Comics @ TCAF 2025

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Topaz Comics will be coming to TCAF this weekend, June 7th-8th. Join Jey, Max, and Amiel at booth #222 on the ice rink for books, zines, prints, stickers AND a Cartoonist Coop stamp rally! Come by and say hi this weekend!

Jey will be debuting The Curtain Falls, a 70 page comic about Lupin in his 60s! (it comes with a free postcard)

We will also have:
Dead City
Gender Slices
After All
On The Job
I Built You a Sex Machine
Things Exchanged
Given & Taken
and more!!!

We’ll have all our physical items from the Topaz Comics Shop

Webcomic Day

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Promo image, with the Topaz Comics logo at the top in browns and warm gold tones. Under it reads
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!

Transfixed – Trans & Genderqueer Erotic FairyTales Anthology

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Preview of the front and back cover of Transfixed and an announcement that the campaign is LIVE! Text reads: Funding now on Kickstarter. Transfixed: trans & genderqueer erotic fairytales. 224 page softcover of 18+ erotic comics. 12 fairytale comics from predominantly Own Voices creators. Majority of artwork is finished and ready to print. Extra funding directly supports creators. Back this kickstarter. Support NSFW indie artists.

 

"Transfixed Anthology" panel, showing a modern day Paul Bunyan in a semi-realistic style. Paul, a handsome man with short black hair while wearing a toque and sporting a small moustache and beard, is smiling for a photo while holding a fish up for the camera. Text is overlayed over the photo reading "Paul Bunyan, transmasc he/him. Looking to get out and meet some more people in the city." Text below the panel reads "Now on Kickstarter" with a star emoji. "Transfixed Anthology" panel, showing Kaye, a fat and flirty transman with his hair pulled up into a curly bun and a tiny moustache, he's looking at the camera with a wink while wearing a sexy mesh shirt. Text is overlayed over the photo reading "Kaye 'heart emoji' TransMasc, he/they. A cutie looking 4 sum bootie" with three emoji following: sticking out tongue, wink with a heart, and a peach emoji." Text below the panel reads "Now on Kickstarter" with a star emoji.

TRANSFIXED is LIVE!

http://kck.st/3Fwd0e2

Something fabulous this ways comes! Get ready for monsters, gadgets, & gods. A NSFW Erotic Fairy Tales Anthology.

Max and I went all out on this comic about a modern, trans Paul Bunyan, you won’t want to miss this!

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