Rodney Goes on a Date, published in Robots Are Peope, Too! #3. Available now!
Thanks to J. Marc Schmidt for the art assist.
– JF
Rodney Goes on a Date, published in Robots Are Peope, Too! #3. Available now!
Thanks to J. Marc Schmidt for the art assist.
– JF
I will have all kinds of cool stuff for sale: Blackglass Press comics, including KAGEMONO, some of JMarc’s 3RD BLADE minicomics, SIXSMITHS ashcans containing a chapter fop the GN that will not be published on the website. I’ll also have a big pile of MCBLACK pages for all you eager motherfuckers to look at.
I’m sharing the space with the incorrigible Matt “Guzumo“ Emery and the even-less-corrigible Brendan “Black Heart” Halyday.
If you’re in town come by and say hello! Look for me under the Blackglass banner.
– JF
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to introduce my new webcomic/graphic novel project with my esteemed colleague, J. Marc Schmidt:
THE SIXSMITHS is a comedy/drama about a family of ordinary Satanists who have fallen on hard times. Thursday of every week, 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time.
JMarc and I are about halfway through the accompanying graphic novel as I write this; stay tuned for more info!
Hail Satan!
– JF
Free Comic Book Day is coming up Saturday, the 2nd of May.
On that day you can find me at Kinokuniya, Sydney’s book/comic/foreign language emporium.
Level 2, The Galeries Victoria,
500 George Street,
Sydney
NSW 2000
Australia
02-9262-7996
In addition to the usual Blackglass books I will be promoting THE SIXSMITHS, a new graphic novel and webcomic that I have been working on with frequent collaborator J.Marc Schmidt, with a 16 page minicomic. If you’re in Sydney that weekend please stop by and say hello!
The webcomic will most likely launch a couple of days prior. I’ll post a link right here.
Cheers,
– JF
Thanks to Steve Mangold for co-wriitng ‘Shadowcutting’ with me; it was a pleasure to work with you, Steve. Big thanks to the judges, the other contributors, and of course the editors (Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Lee C. Hillman, and Jeffrey Lyman) for putting it all together.
Remember, this (ahem) award winning book is easily available Amazon, eReadable and a variety of other places.
– JF
Big plans for 2009:
From Blackglass, another 2 KAGEMONO volumes–or perhaps one big one.
UNGENRED, a trade collection of ‘literary’ stories (by which I mean the stories that don’t have monsters, gunfights and exploding vehicles)
Finally, my graphic novel MCBLACK (which is exclusively about monsters, gunfights and exploding vehicles)
THE SIXSMITHS, a graphic novel/webcomic with J. Marc Schmidt.
DEUCE, a miniseries with Nic Hunter.
I’ll also be aiming to finish up my novel FAERIE APOCALYPSE pretty soon, and I’m still looking for a home for BLOODY WATERS.
– JF
John Retallick, host of The Comic Spot radio show on 3CR, has podcast an interview that I sat with him at Doujicon last year.
Click here to listen:
http://thecomicspot.podomatic.com/player/web/2008-12-02T00_08_44-08_00
– JF
Senior editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail
and Marietta Publishing would like to announce that Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad has been selected as a Finalist for the 2009 EPPIE Award in the Anthology - Complete Category. The winners in all EPPIE Categories will be announced at EPICon, March 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
For those who came in late, Steven Mangold and I have a story called “Shadowcutting” in this book. It’s available on Amazon, eReadable and a variety of other places and I encourage everybody to check it out.
– JF
The eight volume of Bernard Caleo’s romance comics anthology, TANGO, is launching next month.
Over the last 11 years TANGO has become an institution in the Australian comics scene. This year’s book is bigger and better than ever, thanks to a grant from Arts Victoria: 70 stories for a total of 242 pages.
I have a six page story, illustrated by frequent collaborator J. Marc Schmidt, in the book. I believe that that there are stories by Bruce Mutard, Bobby N, Paul Bedford and Matt Emery, Andrew Fulton, Nicky Greenberg, Jo Waite,Daniel Reed, Mandy Ord ,Tolley, Bernard himself, and no doubt a host of others–there are a total of 70 creators involved.
The launch will be at
Mr Wilkinson, a ‘lovely new bar’ located at
295 Lygon Street,
East Brunswick
Victoria
For more information, click across to http://www.cardigancomics.com
on Wednesday 17 December 2008 from 7pm. I’ll be there and I’m sure most of the others I’ve listed will be, too. Stop by and say hi… and, of course, buy yourself a copy. The book goes for a trifling $20 AUD. I you can’t make it, the book should be available in independent bookstores around Melbourne–Readings, Brunswick Bound, Polyester, etc or from the Cardigan Comics website.
– JF
Hey everyone,
Welcome to the new version of www.jasonfranks.com.
I’ve streamlined the site down a bit, as you can see. The journals have gone, I’m afraid–perhaps I’ll start converting some of the travel-related stories into wordpress blog entries, but most of them are gone, now. I know that will disappoint some of you, but the purpose of this site has changed now and I’m drawing a lot more hits now–I’m just not comfortable showing so much personal information to so much wider an audience.
The sketchbook section is gone, too. I’m a writer, you don’t need to see me scribbling. Any sketches, cartoons or scribbles I think are worth your time will be posted here in the blog.
As for the blog, I will most likely be syndicating some of the entries from my livejournal here–I’m not sure how much of it, but I am currently intending this site as more of a news feed than a journal. We’ll see how it goes, eh?
Anyway, welcome to the new site.
Cheers,
– Jason Franks
Melbourne, in the rain, 2008.
New wordpress-based site in development under http://www.jasonfranks.com/blog/.