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The days are getting shorter with each beautiful sunset now as we approach the Autumn.  To celebrate this very special time of year Jetzin Brothers Studios is doing a 7 Day only (9/16-9/23) 50% off the EBOOKS versions of the Tales Of Orlen Series Book I – Long Live the Emperor and Book II Mercenary and the Crystal Eye!

Just use the Coupon Code JETZIN30A7

We added wonderful “Look Inside” features on both books so you can browse the first 13 pages of Long Live The Emperor and the first 40 pages of The Mercenary And The Crystal Eye.

We wish you all a beautiful Autumn and appreciate all of you!

The long awaited sequel to “Long Live The Emperor” is finally here!  With over 400 illustrated pages The Mercenary And The Crystal Eye is now available in hard copy editions and e-book instant download.

Jetzin Brothers Studios was featured in the #1 issue of the X exclusive magazine the Gargoyle Seal just 10 days after the studios official launch!  

“The Gargoyle Seal is a creative haven for visual storytelling where comics, illustrative narratives, and concept art converge to speak louder than words.  At its core the magazine is a showcase of voices that deserved to be heard, especially those often overlooked or working outside of the mainstream.   We spotlight side arcs, experimental strips, and lore rich fragments that challenge convention and expand the boundaries of what storytelling can be.”  ~ Jonas S. Fernandez Founder of Gargoyle Seal Magazine

Jetzin Brothers Studios deeply appreciates their work being featured and receiving the Gargoyle Seal during this epic launch of the studio. 

Follow Jetzin Brothers Studios on X and Gargoyle Seal Community for more graphic novel news, development art, and great articles!  

…….Coming August 22nd 2025……

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Mercenary And The Crystal Eye!

A fully illustrated graphic novel of over *400* pages!!   Book II Tales Of Orlen Series.

It’s been a very long road to completion for this book. It began when I, Jaron, was twelve years old and my brother Jade and I were given a Lego pirate ship and a set of goblins and orcs for our birthdays.

These were our favorite toys and eventually I became inspired to make a stop-motion movie combining my love of fantasy and pirates.

I became proficient in the medium of stop motion and I even got a bit of the story completely filmed by 2018. But the story I wanted to tell kept getting bigger and more elaborate and I could feel the restraints of my animation medium. It was around this time when my brother and founder of our studio, Jade, suggested that we instead pivot to graphic novels for my fantasy story.

We had already been exploring the potential of graphic novels with our other projects so it seemed foolish not to apply them to mine.  So I started working in 2019 on the first book in the series, Long Live The Emperor, and completed it by 2020.

Then it was time to work on its sequel The Mercenary And The Crystal Eye, who’s rough story concept I had come up with in 2015.  I first began illustration in the late summer of 2021 and continued through two moves and many ups and downs.

Through it all, work on The Mercenary And The Crystal Eye was a constant companion and comfort. Both my writing and illustration skills improved massively during this time period and I also hired my background artist Alice after illustrating over fifty pages by myself and realizing that, unless I wanted the book to take ten years to complete, I would need someone to finish and paint the backgrounds I was sketching. The publishing of this book is a major victory for our studio as we now have two titles available to our name with many more to come in the future. I can’t wait to share The Mercenary And The Crystal Eye with everyone on the 22nd of August. It’ll be a day to remember….

Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are the brothers Jade and Jaron Jetzin and we are the founders of Jetzin Brothers Studios where we write and illustrate our own graphic novels. We are excited to share our books with you but first let us tell you a little about ourselves and how we got here………

Growing up we were home-schooled and educated with a blend of Waldorf/Unschooling/Child-led learning. This alternate schooling system and our mother as well as our eldest brother’s, Element, support is the reason we were able to pursue the path that we are on.

From a young age we were both always enthralled by the works of Walt Disney and other such animated corner stones of art and story telling.  When we were only 8yrs [Jade] and 5 years [Jaron] we decided that when we grew up we wanted to make animated movies. An ambitious dream but one that we had faith we could accomplish.  As the years went on we studied film and writing vigorously.  We listened deeply to every word spoken on special feature commentaries of our favorite films from the likes of Brad Bird and Walt Disney and other greats like them. During these young years we also developed a passion for drawing that we cultivated and developed with the supportive ‘follow your dreams’ motto that we were raised with.

Eventually we discovered the medium of graphic novels through such great works as TinTin, Asterix And Obelix, Bone, and Amulet. It was then when we realized that just the two of us could be our own studio. We both are proficient in writing, illustration, character design, concept art, and background painting. We wouldn’t have to struggle to procure the funding and giant team required for feature length animated films, we could begin with just the two of us being a two man army.

After years and years of experimentation in the realms of writing and illustrating Jaron completed the first literary graphic novel “Long Live The Emperor – Book I of the Tales Of Orlen Series” At the age 19.  The work was first published by our mother’s digital publishing company and we officially established Summer Time Studios.  We launched into the world mainly via YouTube promotions in 2020.  The graphic novel was greeted warmly by readers and we got great reviews from our niche audience.  We also learned a great deal about the world of publishing and distribution for our work.

The next few years were turbulent ones as our family navigated the chaotic events that I’m sure most are very familiar with [2020-2023], during which we had to move our family ranch three times. But through it all our work continued. I worked on finalizing the script and illustrations for Book II of the Tales Of Orlen Series and even was able to hire a background painter named Alice to aid in it’s production.

Jade Jetzin had been busy with his own graphic novel project titled The Moscow Mongrel, inspired by the stories of the roving stray packs of the city and by the famous Russian stray Malchik.  We both spent years helping each other with world building, plots, and scripting our stories.

As we approached the final phases of Book II of Tales Of Orlen Series, The Mercenary And The Crystal Eye, we decided to rebrand Summer Time Studios to Jetzin Brothers Studios. Summer Time would take over as the publishing company for all of our works.  We also dropped our pen name of Green in the process and I made some revisions to Long Live The Emperor along with a new cover and published it under Summer Time Publishing.   We are both excited to be taking the first public steps to achieving our life long ambitions and we can’t wait to share the journey with you our dear readers.

Today is our official Jetzin Brothers Studios Launch that is being celebrated with the release of the 2025 Revised Edition of Long Live The Emperor – Tales of Orlen Book I.

This first book is available for the first time in print which many readers had eagerly hoped would be made available when the first release happened.

Jaron has revised several pages and plot points of the novel in preparation for the release of Book II of the Tales of Orlen Series – The Mercenary And The Crystal Eye! 

We have joined the social media platform X to be able to grow our Jetzin Brothers Community and share our literary graphic novels with a wider audience.  Please follow us here to be able to access special news and offers and don’t forget to sign up for our official community newsletter!

AS PART OF OUR LAUNCH CELEBRATION we are offering a limited time FREE E-Book download of “Long Live The Emperor” for new community members who sign up for the Jetzin Brothers Newsletter!  The Offer expires August 11, 2025 so to claim your free revised Long Live The Emperor eBook enter the coupon code sent with the newsletter confirmation email.”

Onward and Upwards… Jetzin Brothers Studios – our mission is to set new heights for literary graphic novels and bring happiness to our readers!

We are excited to launch our new company website and welcome you to the Jetzin Brothers world of literary graphic novels!  Summer Time Studios is now Summer Time Publishing and will be the exclusive publisher of all of the works by Jade A. Jetzin and Jaron P. Jetzin.  We want to express our deepest appreciation to all of our community members who have supported our work and we look forward to deepening our connections with our readers and supporters in the coming seasons ahead.