Mindless Ones

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As Chris points out, this is the work of the composer/musician Ron Geesin, and you can see Ron's son, Gary Lactus aka @frasergeesin.bsky.social, on stage arsing about with me and @danwhite.bsky.social in Harrogate at 1.45pm on 14 November at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social for SILENCE! To Astonish 2026

Another wee preview of my grief memoir in progress in this week's thrilling edition of Mindless Ones.

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Roddy McDowall gives a splendid performance in this adaptation of Richard Matheson's definitive haunted house novel, but Delia Derbyshire's sound design is the star here, updating a fustily traditional yarn with a teeth-grinding barrage of groans, clangs and shrieks ripped straight from hell itself.

Issue #81 of our newsletter is out now ft. China Mieville as Andy McNab, William Blake, Johnny Vaughn, Medea Sang Me a Corrido, Nautilus, Pet Shop Boys, Pricks, Semolina, Shin Kamen Rider, The Weight and more! “There was a voice in the back of my head that was almost exactly like mine but not”

🎃 It Is Said A Monster Came 🎃 New post about American interventionism, John McTiernan, Die Hard on an X, Bacarau, colonial invasion, big game hunters, Predators as seasoning, and Prey! grave-offerings.ghost.io/it-is-said-a...

Progress continues on my grief memoir - see every page as it's made on my Patreon, which is $1

New comic in production. Join my Patreon to help out.

Anyone who’s had this will tell you the same story and it is IMO important to understand the terror of transgender people as sex offenders is much the same thing as black-clad lads in the street shouting against migrants as sex offenders. They are different facets of the same reactionary project.

While we're all outraged at Art Spiegelman for using AI to create a meaningless sticker to promote a pointless reissue of his most vacuous book, let's not forget that his original concept behind the sticker was also dogshit.

Issue #81 of our newsletter is out now ft. China Mieville as Andy McNab, William Blake, Johnny Vaughn, Medea Sang Me a Corrido, Nautilus, Pet Shop Boys, Pricks, Semolina, Shin Kamen Rider, The Weight and more! “There was a voice in the back of my head that was almost exactly like mine but not”

I’m going to be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in Harrogate November 14th and 15th, tabling with @omipalonepress.bsky.social ! Here’s everything I’ll have with me:

🎃 Do You Hear His Voice? 🎃 New post about end times fascism, Godaganda, Roe v Wade, Ed and Lorraine Warren, Pauline Kael, creepy children, Arkasha Stevenson and The First Omen! grave-offerings.ghost.io/do-you-hear-...

Falling/Breaking is a new (small) collection of short comics; one side is falling for someone, the other is breaking up. Now in my shop.

Issue #80 of our newsletter is out now ft. Aslan, Bill Callahan, Daredevil: Born Again, the Frida Khalo Corporation, King Mob, the Symbolic Layer, War of the Worlds and more!

Mindless Ones in good form this year, with a bunch of short-sharp thought pieces, climaxing in the realisation of what is fundamentally amiss with the too-sexy-for-his-shirt King Mob.

Issue #80 of our newsletter is out now ft. Aslan, Bill Callahan, Daredevil: Born Again, the Frida Khalo Corporation, King Mob, the Symbolic Layer, War of the Worlds and more!

Issue #79 of our newsletter is full to burst! Ft. Buddy Baker, Buxom Witches, The Dead Parent Club, The Horned God, M. John Harrison, Mother Sausage, Peter Redgrove, Planks Constant and more!

Trying to get Pricks #6 done. Losing money drawing a comic instead of taking commissions. If you want to help me out, join my Patreon from just £1 a month or buy my stuff. This preview is in the @mindlessones.bsky.social newsletter. mindless-ones.ghost.io Patreon.com/frasergeesin Frasergeesin.com

Issue #79 of our newsletter is full to burst! Ft. Buddy Baker, Buxom Witches, The Dead Parent Club, The Horned God, M. John Harrison, Mother Sausage, Peter Redgrove, Planks Constant and more!

A few pages of my grief memoir are in the latest @mindlessones.bsky.social, a free top tier comics and culture newsletter

PCX is this Saturday! Blessed to be tabling next to the esteemed @newlevant.bsky.social and right by @planetx.bsky.social and @larsenproject.bsky.social I've got a new collection of short comics to debut - romance on one side, break-ups on the other!

Oh if I'd only seen, that the joke was on me…🤡 New bonus episode out now! We’re dead serious! Join Andrew as he delves right into "I Started a Joke" by the Bee Gees 🐝 🎶 Available exclusively on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey...

Issue #78 of our newsletter is out now, ft. A future assistant, Ghost Box, Grant Morrison’s best comic, Miyazaki angels, Resident Evil, Val Guest, “Who wants to play army?”, WTCHMN and more!

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Please hire me for your freelance comic editing needs so I never have to start marketing courses

Issue #78 of our newsletter is out now, ft. A future assistant, Ghost Box, Grant Morrison’s best comic, Miyazaki angels, Resident Evil, Val Guest, “Who wants to play army?”, WTCHMN and more!

Issue #77 of our newsletter is out now ft. Birds of Prey, John Ford, The Nukeface Papers, Planks Constant, Slaine, stunt evangelists, Suggested For Mature Readers and more!

Issue #77 of our newsletter is out now ft. Birds of Prey, John Ford, The Nukeface Papers, Planks Constant, Slaine, stunt evangelists, Suggested For Mature Readers and more!

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Golf Cart One (2026) - my new sculpture at the @lucasmuseum.bsky.social in LA. A life-sized, cast-aluminium, militarised presidential golf cart, commissioned for the museum by George Lucas and based on a 1:12 scale model version I made back in 2017.

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream.

The third film discussed on the latest, internet horror themed Savage Beast is Pascal Plante's 2023 thriller 'Red Rooms', a chilling study of obsession and serial killer fandom that raises uncomfortable questions about our proximity to online violence. thesavagebeast.podbean.com/e/s29-ghosts...

Bleakly, grimly hilarious that people my age have been hearing this exact same tune on repeat for very literally our entire voting lives now. I'm 40. My daughter starts seconday school next year.

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