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Jason Franks

@jasonfranks.com
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Author: Bloody Waters | Faerie Apocalypse | Shadowmancy | X-Dimensional Assassin Zai Comics writer: The Sixsmiths | Frankenstein Monstrance | The Phantom linktr.ee/jasonfrankenstein

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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 06/09/2026
Horror fiends, please check out this excellent feminist cannibal-slasher comic. The complete first arc is now up on Kickstarter and I hope you'll check it out. IT has been my immense pleasure to edit writers @davidbowles.us and Drew Edwards on this: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ipi...
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THE MATRON Volumes 1, 2 & 3 - Slavic folk slasher in Texas
Volume 3 is the epic conclusion to the Matron's icy rampage!
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 23/08/2026
Blueskyfriends, the next Matron instalment is now available for your support and I hope you'll check it out. Feminist cannibal slasher with real heart. An all star creative team: @davidbowles.us, Drew Edwards, Monica Gallagher and Harry Saxon. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ipi...
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
National Australian Horror Convention Guests of Honour announced. Guess who!
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Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Grab Constantine's lighter and pack some snacky-snacks. Time to start prepping for the National Australian Horror Convention in 2027. Myself & the excellent @alan_weird_baxter are the Guests of Horror: we pledge to be amusing and downright terrifying. Details are here www.natozhorrorcon.com.
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Amanda Bridgeman @amandabridgeman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Latest reads courtesy of @jasonfranks.com. I enjoyed these short reads featuring superhero villains and the Yakuza. Go check them out!
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 16/04/2026
Hey killers. I will be a guest at Supanova this coming weekend. 10am-6pm Saturday and Sunday at the Melbourne Showgrounds. Table 28 in the Artist's Alley, also known as Hall 7, the Grand Pavilion. Come say hello. I double dog dare yez.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 06/03/2026
Thanks, killers. All wrapped up.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 04/03/2026
12 hours to go! At 111% funded we're about four pledges away from the stretch goal. Get it while it's hot! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 04/03/2026
Final 24 hours to back Smiling Damned: Yakuza before it's done, done, done like a dinner. Please and thank you. JAA! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 03/03/2026
About 48 hours remaining. 109% funded. Japanese noir just the way you like it. Get on board before it's too late.
Comicbook panels of a gangster in a suit holding an AR15 rifle, facing an elevator door that is splattered with blood. "Going up," he says. "109% and climbing."
Text beside the image says SMILING DAMNED 48h remaining".
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 02/03/2026
Last 3 days to get in on Smiling Damned Yakuza Stories. We are 104% funded and going strong. The first stretch goal--an additional story--is less that $400 away. Join us. It will blow your mind. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas... #Kickstarter #indiecomics #noir #action
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 24/02/2026
Aaaand we're fully funded! Thank you to all the backers. Backslaps and vodka to the art team. We've hit the target. Now it's time to dismember the corpse and bury it.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 17/02/2026
Smiling Damned: Yakuza is 80% funded and going strong. Hopefully I don't have to anything illegal to make the last 20%. kickstarter.com/projects/jas... #indiecomics #crime #noir #yakuza #kickstarter
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 15/02/2026
A new Smiling Damned video, courtesy of the family of artist Harry Purnell. Japanese noir, just the way you* like it. *Just the way I like it. Essay coming, if you're good. #indiecomics #crimenoir #yakuza #crowdfunding
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 14/02/2026
Hello again, friends. My Smiling Damned Kickstarter is live and I would love it if you'd check it out. Four Japanese noir stories spread over 3 centuries. I'm super proud of this and I am sure you'll dig it. Help me get this off the ground! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...
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Smiling Damned: Yakuza Stories
Stories of the Yakuza set in three different eras. Prison breaks, gang war, and bloody revenge in the Japanese noir tradition.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 12/02/2026
Smiling Damned is now live on Kickstarter! Yakuza stories in comic form, in the Japanese noir tradition. Please check it out. Support us if it looks good to you. Tell your friends, tell your enemies. Snatch up a copy right here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...
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Smiling Damned: Yakuza Stories
Stories of the Yakuza set in three different eras. Prison breaks, gang war, and bloody revenge in the Japanese noir tradition.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 10/02/2026
Launching tonight! Japanese noir, just the way you like it.
Two yakuza conversing in a karaoke bar, with a third singing in the background. 
Singer: "Tomorrow, baaaaabyyy!"  
Speaker: "Only one day til we're live on Kickstarter."
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 08/02/2026
Yakuza noir as you like it.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 06/02/2026
Smiling Damned: Yakuza is ready to rock. Launching next week. Four stories about the yakuza set in four different eras. Four brutal stories in the Japanese noir tradition. Count your fingers. Count the days. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 26/01/2026
Count your fingers. Count the days. SMILING DAMNED YAKUZA is launching soon on Kickstarter and I know you don't want to miss out. Sign up to be notified at www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 21/01/2026
My Smiling Damned: Yakuza Kickstarter is almost ready to launch. Book's all done and it should be live early February. Four Japanese noir stories about the yakuza in four different eras. Check out some art in the pre-launch page and give us a follow? www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...
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Coming soon: Smiling Damned: Yakuza Stories
Stories of the Japanese mafia set in three different eras. Prison breaks, gang war, and bloody revenge in the Japanese noir tradition.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 17/10/2025
Some art from my upcoming Smiling Damned: Yakuza comic. These pages are by Henry Pop and Cristian Roux, coloured by Graeme Jackson. The cover is Cristian Roux. Stories about the Japanese mob set in the 1890s, the 1990s, the 2010s, & a gonzo SF noir fantasy future. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is mine and @jasonfranks.com’s creation, @techbrobot.bsky.social. Using a dataset of authentic garbage spewed out by techlords, he’s programmed to spit out his nonsense in response to what trends on Bluesky. Like Elon, but he won’t fire your brother or deny your community life-saving aid.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 01/03/2025
Avast, ye lubbers: I have a story in this pirate anthology, set in my Faerie Apocalypse universe--so you know it's unhinged. Plenty of amazing work by a killer crew of bloodthirsty knaves. If that sounds cool to you, please click on through. Screw the oligarchs--support indie books!
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 14/02/2025
This was a fantastic indie horror book full of heart and beautiful, rendered in Hayden's beautiful and mad ink-wash style. You should order one.
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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 11/02/2025
The right slasher for our times. THE MATRON, a new horror comic created and written by Drew Edward and me, illustrated by @monicacomics.bsky.social, and published by @ipicomics.bsky.social. Special pre-order campaign begins this Saturday!
An image of a woman walking through the snow, wearing a hooded cloak covered in blood and a white wooden mask with red lines, carrying a bloody ax. Above her head are these words: "Gentrification took her town. Eminent domain took her home. Now Zina Krenek is out for vengeance. And she is going to eat the rich. Quite literally. THE MATRON."
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 14/02/2025
Also, um, another Kickstarter for you consideration. This one is an anthology of Pirate stories from Outland Entertainment. Edited by Scott Colby and Alana Abbott, with stories by me, my pard Jason Fischer, Allison Pang, Chris Roberson, and heaps more. www.kickstarter.com/projects/133...
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Rising Tides: A Pirate Anthology!
My crew an’ I bring ye tales of daring! Of makin’ a difference in the face of oppressive guv’mints and fearsome beasties!
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 14/02/2025
Hello Bluesky. I have a Kickstarter for your kind attention. The first is for The Matron, an LGBTQI+ generational slasher epic which brings Slavic myth to central Texas. Written by @davidbowles.us & Drew Edwards, art by Monica Gallagher. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ipi...
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Coming soon: THE MATRON 1: Slasher meets Slavic myth in Central Texas
During a winter storm, the Matron returns, bringing death to her small Texas town. Only her own family can stop the devastation.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 10/02/2025
Their mission: to seek out new life--and eat it.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 07/02/2025
How long until Halloween again? Cause I'm fucking ready for Halloween.
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Elon Musk is about as punk as a pocket protector: my latest in the @theguardian.com comes from such a sincere place of loathing that they even let me keep the swears in. theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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They say Musk has turned the GOP into the new punk rock but I say never mind the bollocks | Van Badham
If there’s an escape from the omnipresence of Elon Musk it’s this: throw your phone in the sea, sing and dance, and stay out all night
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 28/12/2024
I lived in the US on an H1B visa for five years. I remember vividly a coworker complaining to me about foreign workers taking American jobs. When I identified myself as one such he said "You don't count. You're Australian." Which of course meant that he thought of me as being white.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 28/12/2024
Well, looks like there's still time to squeeze in one more funeral before New Year's. This is the fourth death of a friend or relative this year.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 22/12/2024
Santa came early this year and he brought me... the flu. Yeah.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 15/12/2024
Late in the year contributor's copies of these two fine anthologies. These two horror short stories, the Gourmand go graphic novella, and my non fiction piece for the Jewish Independent are the entirety of my published output for this year.
Two books.
Left: Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, edited by Deborah Sheldon
Right: the Time Machine Australia Bound, edited by Steve Proposch and Christopher Sequeira.
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IFWG Publishing International @ifwgpublishing.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A gorgeous collection by the great Jim Krueger (and cover art by John K Snyder III): The Frankincense Monster and Other Creepy Horror Stories! Just released now! https: //ifwgpublishing.com/2024/12/06/new-release-the-frankincense-monster-and-other-creepy-christmas-stories-by-jim-krueger/
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 30/11/2024
Turned in the script for Frankenstein Monstrance #3 today--my SF horror book about surveillance capitalism, biotech and journalism. this script is four pages extra and about 10 months late. We have two issues in the can and one more to go after this one.
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T R Napper @trnapper.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Good news - it appears the audiobook for my latest novel, The Escher Man, is on sale in the US. Do yourself a favour: tinyurl.com/23bc58jj
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The Escher Man
Amazon.com: The Escher Man (Audible Audio Edition): T. R. Napper, Nick Atkinson, Dreamscape Lore: Books
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 29/11/2024
If you haven't read Ursula Le Guin you need this in your face. There's nobody better and never will be.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 29/11/2024
Happy thanksgiving, my American friends. If you ate the sweet potato thing with the marshmallows in it I am not going to ask why, but I am judging you.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 28/11/2024
This magnificent beast is just released. Horror stories about pregnancy, birth, and babies. I'm really pleased that my psychological horror story "Grizzle" is included. It's about a widower trying to white-knuckle care of his newborn son. ifwgpublishing.com/2024/11/25/n...
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New Release: Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies (ed Deborah Sheldon)
IFWG Publishing has been waiting a long time to have the pleasure of announcing the world release of Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, edited by the amazing Debora…
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
In politics clarity is its own opportunity. The storm of the 2024 election has created great clarity. The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, and 3rd richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, are currently asking a group of Trump judges to end the right to organize & join a union in the United States.
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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 25/11/2024
💙📚 In this four-part series exclusive to Ginger Nuts of Horror, the contributors have agreed to pull aside the curtain and reveal the inspiration behind their nightmarish tales. gnofhorror.com/spawn-2-behi... @carolryles.bsky.social @ifwgpublishing.bsky.social
The header image for our feature on the anthology Spawn Two featuring the book cover with a demonic baby and a spooky wood scene in the background
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 25/11/2024
I'm not a big account or a frequent poster but... my notifications today are an order if magnitude busier than they ever were on Hellsite Prime, except maybe for a single tweet that blew up a bit one time. I guess I'm in some starter packs a f the platform is seeing a huge influx. Cheers, legends.
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 25/11/2024
Kind words about my novel Faerie Apocalypse, which is... very dark portal fantasy about mortals traveling to the faerie realms, and the damage they wreak. I usually say Blood Meridian meets Stardust, which I hope sounds problematic, because that is the point of the book.
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
GenAI researchers may ignore abstract rule learning but smart cognitive neuroscientists like @desrocherslab.bsky.social and @earlkmiller.bsky.social know abstract rule learning is a key part of cognition. New study:
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 23/11/2024
Turned in a 25K manuscript today. It's still a bit rough an ready but it has taken me a long long time and I am feeling really good about it. It's a collaboration, but I am being paid to do the execution of it, which is a new experience. MG fiction--also something new for me. Now I'm gonna watch TV
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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 22/11/2024
I have a short story, "Grizzle", in this new anthology, Spawn 2. Horror stories about pregnancy, birth, and babies. @gnofhorror.com has been kind enough to host a series of short essays by the writers, and I'm in this one. Click through for some behind-the-scenes on these stories.
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ipicomics.bsky.social @ipicomics.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
IPI Comics has just announced it will augment some of its comics with Crowd-funding! Here's the first that will launch soon (if interested, please click the notify button): ow.ly/AtmH50Ubvpx
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Coming soon: THE MATRON: Slasher meets Slavic myth in Central Texas
During a winter storm, the Matron returns, bringing death to her small Texas town. Only her own family can stop the devastation.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 19/11/2024
I have other issues with shunning 'only' challenging opinions and information, but I agree it's not the job of a social network to force that on you. Just please stop giving dopamine hits and algorithmic boosts to the people who hate you it's fucking empty. It is the fuel they yearn to squeeze out.
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