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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 23/09/2026

Sold. You had me at UKL but that is a hell of a ToC.

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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 21/09/2026

Thank you so much, John! I know you're gonna love it. :)

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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

It has been an absolute pleasure to edit this book and I assure you it is a distinctive and superior specimen. Please do check it out.

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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 · 26/02/2026

I admit I have felt like blocking our brobot from my main feed on an almost daily basis. I think it's time to update the dataset...

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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 24/02/2026

We have not quite half the campaign still to go. Now is the perfect time to get in n the action. hit is right here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...

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Smiling Damned: Yakuza Stories

Stories of the Yakuza set in four different eras. Prison breaks, gang war, and bloody revenge in the Japanese noir tradition.

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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 · 12/02/2026

Well, running a day late due to the fact I am WEAK but this will go live tonight at 9pm. Stay tuned! I will be sure to notify y'all.

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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

There are two more stories still being coloured. I'll post some more art once they're wrapped.

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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 · 16/03/2025

I can't wait. Much as I loved the books as a teen, there is so much more to appreciate these decades later.

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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 14/03/2025

I read the Riddlemaster trilogy in high school and I always loved it. I haven't read much of her other work--I just couldn't find it anywhere at the time. Just started a re-read and I'm looking forward o working through her back catalogue now that it's readily available, in ebook form at least.

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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

My piece, the Voyage of the Enbarr, is about an Irish boy who is pressganged into the Royal Navy. It's set in my Faerie Apocalypse universe so you know it gets a bit... unhinged. This one is already live and I encourage you lubbers to snag a copy.

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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

I'm editing this for @ipicomics.bsky.social and I promise you it is sensational. Prelaunch is up now and it'll probably be live in about a week's time.

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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

That's not the Halloween I want.

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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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