SMILING DAMNED: YAKUZA STORIES
(Comic anthology)
Illustrated by Cristian rough, Mike Athey and Henry Pop.
Three stories about the yakuza–the Japanese mob–set in four different eras. A prison break, a gang war, a quest for revenge, a rescue mission gone wrong. Stories in the Japanese noir tradition.
Smiling Damned is a 26 page full colour comic anthology. Put on your good suit and smile like I’m bleeding. Coming to Kickstarter September 2025. Sign up to be notified.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasonfranks/smiling-damned-yakuza
BLACKENED SKIES
The long awaited sequel to my occult rock’n’roll novel Bloody Waters is back from the editor and ready to go. Where do you go from the pinnacle of rock stardom? Well, my friends. It is time for the heavy metal apocalypse.
Coming in 2026
SHORT STORIES
“Swim, Walk, Jump”, a fiction story about a family of semi-amphibious people trying to survive day-to-day amidst airstrikes from an enemy and governance by a fanatical militia.
“Voyage of the Enbarr”, a pirate fantasy story about an Irish orphan who is press-ganged into the Royal Navy, and the strange allies who come to his rescue.
FRANKENSTEIN MONSTRANCE
(Comic miniseries)
Illustrated by Tam Nation
What if Victor Frankenstein was still secretly alive? A billionaire that nobody knows about with a 200 year head start in robotics, AI and biotechnology?
Read about it here: https://ipicomics.com/2022/12/20/frankenstein-returns-in-new-comic-book-series/
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