ZX Nephilim

About

The creator of ZX

ZX Nephilim is written, designed and directed by Alex. Here’s who he is, and the twenty-year history of how the story got here.

Alex

Alex

I’m Alex, the creator and writer of ZX Nephilim. I’ve spent more than fifteen years in creative production: animation, motion graphics, 3D and art direction.

ZX is the project I’ve wanted to finish for most of that time. It’s been in my head since 2006, and now it finally has somewhere to live.

History

Twenty years of ZX

ZX Nephilim is a story I’ve carried for twenty years. It started as a comic between friends, split into a multiverse, changed shape more times than I can count, and never once left my head. This is how it got here.

  1. ORB

    Three friends, one comic

    It began with three of us: me, Prince Short and Louis D. Morgan, making a comic together called ORB. Three people, three sets of ideas, one book. After a while, it didn’t work out.

    ORB
  2. 2006

    ZX

    Prince and I decided to start something new, and we called it ZX. Prince created the earliest version of the character Zirous. Back then the characters were kids, fourteen and fifteen years old, with a wider cast around them.

    The first ZX pages
  3. The split

    A multiverse

    Prince and I had very different drawing styles, and on the same page they fought each other. So instead of forcing it, we each drew our own version of ZX and made it a multiverse.

    Prince kept his Zirous and Xel young, at fifteen and sixteen. Mine grew up: nineteen, twenty, twenty-one.

  4. 2006–2026

    The long carry

    For twenty years the story lived in my head. I worked out scenes, threw them away and wrote them again. ZX started out as a story about aliens. Over time it turned into something older: a biblical story of angels, demons and the Nephilim born between them.

    As I got older, so did the story. It became darker, heavier and more adult.

  5. Unpublished

    The pages took too long

    I hardly published any of it. A single page took me so long to finish, and there was always a job, a deadline, a life. The story kept growing faster than I could draw it.

  6. 2026

    Now

    AI changed that. I can finally put ZX out at something close to the speed it plays in my head. I write the story and the scripts, design the characters and direct every image, and AI helps me render the pages.

    This site is where the story lives now.

Thank you

ZX wouldn’t exist without the people who were there at the start.

The ZX Nephilim title page

Thank you

Prince Short

Prince was there at the very beginning, when ZX started in 2006. He created the earliest versions of two characters: Zirous and Cel.

When our drawing styles split ZX into a multiverse, he kept drawing his own version of it.

  • ZirousEarliest version by Prince
  • CelEarliest version by Prince

And thanks to Louis D. Morgan, part of the three-person team behind ORB, where it all began.