About

Novelist | Comics Writer | Father of Dinosaurs

Jason Franks is a novelist and comics writer. He is the author of the occult rock’n’roll novel BLOODY WATERS, the literary fantasy novel FAERIE APOCALYPSE, and the genre-hopping epic X-DIMENSIONAL ASSASSIN ZAI.

Franks is the writer of the THE SIXSMITHS graphic novel series as well as numerous short stories in prose and comics. His forthcoming projects include FRANKENSTEIN MONSTRANCE, a four issue science fiction/horror miniseries with artist Tam Nation.

Franks has also written work-for-hire stories featuring The Phantom, and The Human Fly, as well other IP characters like Sherlock Holmes and Dracula.

Although his writing is often humorous, Jason is most comfortable at in the darker reaches of speculative fiction. although his writing is often humorous. His protagonists are likely to be villains or anti-heroes and the Devil is a recurring figure in his work.

Franks has lived in South Africa, the USA and Japan, but he’s spent most of his life in Melbourne, Australia.