• Cover: The book cover "Dead City", drawn with choppy black line art and coloured with greens, blacks and yellows. In the middle are two characters: Mikael, a thin white man in his early 20s with red hair, freckles, wearing a a ball cap, a brown leather jacket and dark jeans with a nervous expression. JP is a fat man of colour with shaggy black hair and a beard, he's wearing a blue varsity jacket and light jeans, he looks scared. They're both kneeling next to one another holding their own backpack straps wit
  • Page 1: A Dead City comic page, done in black and white with some hatching. A large establishing shot of Bloor street in Toronto, Ontario. There's pylons strewn about, a car crashed against a street lamp next to a fence with grafitti on it that reads "Zombies, Z-day" we can see a silhouetted figure walking on the sidewalk leaving a questionable trail behind them. From an alleyway we see this figure, a zombie businessman, limp from the left to the right as a man in the shadows watches. The zombie makes an un
  • Page 2: A Dead City comic page, done in black, white and 50% grey with some hatching. We see our man from the shadows clearly now. He's a heavy-set man of colour with shaggy short black hair wearing a black jacket and backpack. He waits until the zombie is out of earshot before moving further down the alleyway. Coming into the sunlight, a voice off-screen yells "HOLD IT!" and the man is taken aback.
  • Page 3: A Dead City comic page, done in black, white and 50% grey with some hatching. Our man is out in the open now and met with another man who's pointing a gun at him while yelling "You bitten?!" This second man is thin, white, with medium toned hair, freckles and wearing a dirty ball cap, a stained leather jacket and jeans. He looks desperate. Our first man, nervously responds "N-no! I'm clean! And I- I have food." which intrigues the other man who parrots "Food?"
  • Page 4: A Dead City comic page, done in black, white and 50% grey with some hatching. The thin man thinks it over before demanding "Alright, but first you gotta strip." He's saying this not for pleasure, but out of caution. The first man looks offended and responds with a prompt "No." The thinner man points the gun again and yells "Just do it!!" and our man has no other option.
  • Page 5: A Dead City comic page, done in black, white and 50% grey with some hatching. Our man takes off his clothes, unzipping his jacket and undoing his pants and holding his arms out while standing in just his boxers. He says "This good enough?" as we see him on display while the skinny man states "Kay, you're clean." He changes his tune a bit and looks apologetic while saying "Sorry about that but you can't be too careful." As the other man puts his clothes back on and says "I guess." in a quiet grumpy v
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Jey Pawlik, Max Parker

Dead City

Dead City

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A slice-of-life zombie-apocalypse romance set in Toronto about two men surviving together and falling for one another.

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.

“Jey and Michelle have taken an otherwise bleak apocalyptic setting and injected it with all the love and heard you’ve come to expect from their brilliant work under Topaz Comics. Dead City feels like a warm hug on a cold day, and its upbeat spirit will keep you coming back to read again and again.” – Lacey Brannen, Lies Within

“Dead City revitalizes the zombie-apocalypse story by choosing the most zoomed-in view: the bond between two ordinary people, how it’s formed and tested, when surrounded by a world in chaos.” – EK Weaver, Shot & Chaser, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal

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Jey Pawlik

Jey Pawlik (they/them) is a nonbinary comic artist whose goal is to make unapologetically queer comics. They have been working in comics since 2013 as the artist for Topaz Comics with two completed webcomics “Dead City” and “Gender Slices” under their belt. Their specialty is autobio and character-focused short stories.

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Max Parker

Max Parker is the writer for Topaz Comics, xer work focuses on queer characters and the small moments of joy and heartbreak.

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