My take on The Fault in our Stars

So I'm not one to go to the Young Adult section of the bookstore, but I had to check out this title and the hype it was getting especially since I saw the movie poster at the local Cinemark. I entered the Books-A-Million store and walked to the Best Seller section to get myself a copy of this title.


To be honest, I didn't know what to make of the book cover. If this wasn't a best seller I would've just overlooked it and just get a copy of one of The Walking Dead novels instead. The handwritten font just basically screamed out "Hipster exclusive". Anyways, I bought and went home pondering how I was going to approach the first chapter. I dived into it like a blindfolded Spider-Man about to win a bet from Daredevil.






I'm not going to try to be too detailed to give away any spoilers, but if I do I am very sorry.






The novel introduces to the character Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl suffering from thyroid cancer, who according to her love interest slash homeboy, Augustus Waters, a victim of osteosarcoma, looks like Natalie Portman from V from Vendetta. That is one of coolest references I've ever read in my life! The author, John Green, does his coolest by making the novel easy to read and follow without a lot of plot turns. I personally found the book totally remarkable and really allows us to understand that life is always going to be full of surprises good or bad. The one problem is that it's a real page turner, so I tried my best to not be gut-wrenched when things don't go their way.




John Green, you are a magnificent SOB, and this book truly is one of the coolest fiction stories I read.


If you want to read what I read then click on the image or link below to get yourself a copy today!






  The Fault in Our Stars

A web serial?!

Yes, yes, yes!

While I'm still working on my novel at this moment. I thought to myself, how can I bring you some wonderful stories at the meantime? 

Web novels, duh! 

I already began the planning phase of the story along with an update schedule. Unlike my old webcomics, these are easier to update. Plus it'll allow a lot of flexibility in my schedule that web comics couldn't. 

Expect the first chapter out, sometime late March - early April!

Work work work!

I'm sorry once again for the lack of delays in this thingy-thing.


I've been working in my isolation chamber on my newest novel, but I won't share the title or other things yet! The word count process has driven me up the wall, so instead I'll be taking a per chapter approach to it. Unfortunately, I haven't been working on it as often as I want to. I've been doing a day on, day off pattern so to speak. I have a wall of post-its and a notebook full of research, so I'm not slacking on the details hopefully. I somehow created something that can be told in various mediums, but I want to express it as literary as possible before I move on to visual renditions of it. The first draft looks to be finished maybe by Summer if I can keep grinding these chapters out.


My screenplays have been scarce as well. I still some lingering in studios somewhere as I type this. I've been getting more requests from other studios, but my novel has been my main priority for now. I would love to go back on comics or even webcomics, but for now no lettering, design, comic, or co-writing jobs.

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)

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.