Interviews

Me and James were just interviewed by Invest Comics about our upcoming Blue Water and Cosmic Times work, as well as our take on digital comics which you can read here and I'll be appearing on Sunday's episode of Nerd Nation for a round table discussion with Gene Hoyle, Martin Pierro, and James Whynot about our upcoming comic from Cosmic Times entitled "From Blood."

Lots of new comics coming soon!

Decisions ish 2, pg 4, 5 preview by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

No West to Cross Issue 1 out now by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Black Cobra redesign cover by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Souled 2 Preview Pages 2 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Souled 2 Preview Pages 3 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

From Blood 1 Preview Pages by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Decisions 2 Preview Pages 2 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART
These are preview pages for Souled #2, From Blood #1, and Decisions #2 from Cosmic Times Comics. Black Cobra #0 from Radioactive comics, and No West to Cross #1 that was put out by 215 ink, but will now be self published. I penciled all of the images and inked the pages from Decisions.

Lots of news

Cher will be coming out next month from Bluewater, which I penciled.
Posted a bunch of Steampunk pages for a project that didn't work out.

Tones Sample Page by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk pg 1-3, 5 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk pg 11, 13, 15, 16 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk pg 6, 7, 9, 10 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk pg 20-23 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk sample pg 24 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk sample dps by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk sample pg 17 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk sample pg 14 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk sample pg 12 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk sample pg 4 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Steampunk Trifold Cover Sample by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Cute Zombies designs 3 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Cute Zombies designs 2 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Cute Zombies designs 1 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/311/4/6/steampunnk_sample_pg_8_by_xaqbazit-d4ffeld.jpg

Dragonboat design

Dragonboat logo submission by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Adult skateboard design

Finally got a couple comic irons in the fire. Really loving some Chris Sprouse and Steve Skroce.


Adult Skateboard Design by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

Skateboards

I've recently got some local and national work doing some skateboard designs. Here's the sketch and finished project for the local one.

Kid's Custom Skateboard by ~xaqBazit on deviantART

"Real Books"

So I'm now noticing after basically only reading comics for a few years out of college I'm now having a hard time going back to novels. I championed comics as a gateway to literacy when you're young, but at my age it can almost be a crutch. And I do believe that there are different processes in your mind when combining pictures and text but now I've developed other problems. I have found reading books with larger font helps me but that might be just my eyes. Even my attention span has shortened, I don't know if it is conditioning from the fairly fast reads that today's comics are but I can't bring myself to be interested to read for a novel for more than 10pgs to a chapter or so in a novel before I get bored. I can't keep track of names or visualize characters or scenes that arent pictured somewhere. Am I just used to comics showing my exactly what's going on that I've lost the ability or become lazy to the point that I don't fill in the details with my mind? I have the same problems I had in high-school, I'll space out in the middle of a paragraph and have to reread. Part of it may be that I'm doing most my reading in my bed, which I've heard to never study in your bed, because your mind associates locations with actions, such as sleeping. Though I am able to make it through novels with terse fast paced short sentences like the Parker novels. Is everyone getting to be like this, and will we have to actively fight to not be like this or have I just overstimulated the visual part of my brain and, like a drug, am not getting the same high off of purley text reading material.
And on a last note, me and my little brother tried to read the Megamind comics, which are funny but aimed at an audience who can't read or understand the words megamind uses. Though I heard Stan Lee used to do that specifically to get kids to look them up and expand their vocabulary - but do kids really do that these days, or just put it down and move on?