Need a new short story?

You can get a copy of "The Recruit" for FREE! Just till Tuesday, so act fast! You can get it anywhere that eBooks are sold like Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Apple iBooks, Sony, Kobo, and more!


Yours truly designed the eBook cover and will be designing some prints and stickers for the launch of the first JumpStart! book. I'm hoping to get enough of a sensation to turn one of my designs into a viny toy, but I'm getting a little ahead of myself. I'm still a few thousand words away from finishing the first draft plus I'm searching for an illustrator to help with the eBook cover design to make it look scrumptious.


For now, you can check out the prequel to JumpStart! on your computer, tablet, or phone device thingy. Happy Reading!

More Than Comics Plus!

A small business named, More Than Comics Plus, is aiming to transition their store from eBay to their website domain for an eShop/Blog. They need to cover the costs of the servers, web developers, graphic artists, and new inventory hence the crowd funding campaign. They offer some awesome incentives like rare mangas and a laser cel of the Tekken series. I say this has potential to become a juggernaut of rare items.

Click here to share/back this campaign!

Busy months are just getting busier!

Sorry for the lack of updates my fellow gamers, readers, and anime watchers. I've been working on overhauling my entire line of work. I just wanted to let you guys know that I will be putting Sato on an hiatus. Now that doesn't mean I'm not working on anything else!

I've been working on a buttload of scripts for the origin story of my newest hero whose name will be not stated until I complete it and get it ready for pre-order aka crowdfunding such as kickstarter and indiegogo. On top of that I'm working on 2 graphic novels. One for mature readers and another for teens and up, which will be my first priority of the graphic novels. I also will be compiling the scripts for a script book, so you new writers and/or artists can get a glimpse at how I work. The webcomics obviously have not been updated for a long while. I'm sorry but the demanding workload for my writing and lettering has been hectic. I'm hoping to begin AOAT once again when I have a chance to breathe.

I'm also STILL working on my novel/novella/novellete I have no idea how long it's gonna be so why not put all the formats.

So I've been busy so I'm sorry again for the lack of updates. I'll be trying to deliver some good reviews, videos, and trailers soon.



P.S. I also began opening a Yu-Gi-Oh! card shop via eBay, so any of you duelists in need of cards visit my card shop.

Need lettering?

As of today, I will be accepting new lettering projects for print or webcomics. For indie publishers, I am offering a discounted rate starting at $5 per page.

For kickstarter, projects I will accept backend if you are close to your goal.

Contact me at djcire956@gmail.com to get started.

January is finally coming to an end

Yes, finally the first month of the new year is almost finished. New year means new slate as I slowly drift away from hip-hop past and transition to comics. The change has been unique for me since I never thought that I would see my name on a comic book. Yet, there it is DeadWatch. My own parents were in awe at the fact that they see one of their sons actually releasing a comic...in print. I mean my parents always told me that they were "proud" of me, but never proud of me. My wife thinks I'm a damn celebrity since I spent all that time telling her that I'm gonna publish my comic and now here I am reading to my kids the useless adventures of DeathWatch.

I have been super busy this month, which is pretty good considering it's the first month of the year. I opened the publishing doors for other creators to come in and get their comics exposed. I am in the process of finishing up the Sato mini-series. Issue 1 should be out soon. I am planning on doing a KickStarter campaign to help us get the pre-orders for Sato #1 started as well as fund the artwork and printing for the rest of the series.

I even started on a graphic novel, but I'm keeping the details on the down low until I finish it. I don't really want to take the food from my kids' mouth for this project. So I will be running a pre-order campaign for this book through KickStarter as well.

The reason why I'm going through KickStarter is because I want to actually send the books to people who actually will read and enjoy the stories.

Unfortunately, my day job will be running it's course sometime this year, so I'm really debating whether I should put my webcomics on hold, so I can focus on getting some lettering projects and on my writing. It really sucks since this day job was the only way we were able to eat and support my comics. Now I'm gonna be twice as aggressive with my projects. I hope this works out for the best.

I turn to you, my supporters, to help me out even more in this year.

Thank you all,

Eric (Cire Designz)

Quick Heads Up

I recently got more clients coming to me for quotes and questions about lettering and other design services. Although I don't mind the ones who were professional about the whole experience, but I ran to a couple who above the level of rude. Ok, so I decided to put this article here so any of you clients who are the ones who really need to voice their opinions about how a business works can understand fully about our intents on our services, prices specifically. Sorry for the language.

1. I don't charge quotes to be an asshole. When I send you a quote, it's because you asked for a price and I'm giving it to you. I don't expect you to like it, but it beats paying me by the hour. I give you 2 days to at least respond to the quote. Once the 48 hours are up, our conversation is over.

2. My prices are not what they are because I don't like you. Let me put it this way, if you paid $2 for a Gucci shirt knock-off, do you expect it to be top of the line material. Same way when you pay some designer $5 to do your project. You get what you paid for.

3. I have a watermark on all unfinalized work because I have to play it safe. You'll be surprised how many of my clients in my early days run off with unfinished work and no payment. Who's going to use a design with a huge black Cire Designz stamp on it?

4. I ask for a 20% deposit because if you, the client, asked me to work on a design (that I work tirelessly and endlessly on) and then you back off the project for whatever reason small or big. I will at least have some kind of income to keep. In other words, if I don't get paid then my family and I don't eat.

New page option coming!

I am really behind on 3 of personal projects, but I know some comic creators who are in need of a quick one-shot, graphic novel, or series, but don't really know where to start. This is where this new page comes in. I will have scripts available for purchase ranging from one-shot comics to limited edition series (ready for TPB as well) to Graphic Novels. They all will be in PDF format unless stated otherwise. Publishers and/or artists can get them at a first come, first serve basis.

Also all writing and co-creator credits should go to Eric Gutierrez Jr.