I have noted that a ‘publisher’ who has failed to deliver published books & has disappeared with over £30K of charity donations plus is banned from creating Kickstarter campaigns is on here claiming to be a publisher. Pls do not give them any of your money or supply free work as so many of us did. - ThreadSky

lucysullivan.bsky.social • 619 days ago

I have noted that a ‘publisher’ who has failed to deliver published books & has disappeared with over £30K of charity donations plus is banned from creating Kickstarter campaigns is on here claiming to be a publisher.
Pls do not give them any of your money or supply free work as so many of us did.

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jayjustice.net•539 days ago

@alt-text.bsky.social

alt-text.bsky.social•539 days ago

Alt text retrieved

adlaim.bsky.social•619 days ago

Lol of course he is

electricmaenad.bsky.social•539 days ago

Noted and blocked - thanks for the heads-up.

tagart.bsky.social•613 days ago

Thanks I’ve blocked them.

lucysullivan.bsky.social•613 days ago

Well worth doing Al.

wandaopalinska.bsky.social•539 days ago

That’s terrible. Thanks so much for letting us know. So sorry that happened to you.

vince.vinceunderwood.com•619 days ago

Why can we never be free of this crook?

lucysullivan.bsky.social•619 days ago

Persistently grifting

anasabdulhak.bsky.social•619 days ago

Ugh I see that grifter is still at it

lucysullivan.bsky.social•619 days ago

Looks like it. I’m unable to allow a repeat without trying to prevent it. I hope folks will heed the many warnings as it’s…
‼️🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩‼️

illaurastrates.bsky.social•619 days ago

Ughhhhhhhh

danwhitehead.net•619 days ago

Doesn't look like he's used the account for at least a month, which is very on-brand. Very weird follower list for a "publisher" as well - almost no creatives, lots of tech, crypto, AI and NFT accounts.

alisonsampson.bsky.social•619 days ago

those have got to have been bought.

scarygorgon.bsky.social•619 days ago

Nah, looking at the ratio I suspect he's follow-churning. Kind of shitty.

barrynorton.bsky.social•619 days ago

Yeah, follows me and I’ve nothing to do with comics.

danwhitehead.net•618 days ago

I was thinking more of the accounts that follow them. It's super weird for a comic publisher - even a small one - not to have loads of comic creators following them, like gulls after a trawler. I scrolled through over 700 and found almost none.

alisonsampson.bsky.social•618 days ago

probably a good thing, i guess.

scarygorgon.bsky.social•618 days ago

Aha! This makes a lot of sense.

danwhitehead.net•619 days ago

Maybe. Or it could just be the launch of a new social network so you get an early doors influx of those type of accounts following anyone and everyone to build up their numbers.

notanotheralex.bsky.social•619 days ago

oh man- i was just to say WHAT IS THAT FOLLOWER COUNT!?!

comicprintinguk.bsky.social•619 days ago

He does the same thing on every social media - follows a billion accounts knowing a proportion will follow back.

danwhitehead.net•619 days ago

"So you're a comic publisher?"
"Yes! The first one on Bluesky, in fact! I'm quite a big deal."
"So are you going to mention the comics you publish at all?"
"Oh...no, I don't think so. I'll just repost the same Star Wars meme multiple times instead."

nat.gertler.com•538 days ago

Even had I known zilch about this "publisher" (close to true), the invocation of "No-prize", which is both specific to a publisher and is for specific ranges of things which this isn't, sets off "posing as comics-knowledgable" alarms.

lucysullivan.bsky.social•538 days ago

Good instincts! Sadly he duped many comics folk. He had a number of high profile names involved & a lot of good will from us. He will no doubt move to another industry.

lucysullivan.bsky.social•611 days ago

To clarify from the ‘Tales From The Quarantine’ aka TFTQ Kickstarter comments. Enlightening reading.
(I was a contributing who, like everyone else, donated my time & skills for free in the promise of charity fundraising)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thefrazerbrown/tales-from-the-quarantine

tmarloweauthor.bsky.social•539 days ago

Appreciate the evidence. So often people make baseless claims then disappear. This really helps to reinforce the facts.

Thanks.

imlgoulden.bsky.social•539 days ago

There's a tonne over on Twitter, the community has been trying to get this person to respond or provide proof the books exist but it's radio silence. @comicprintinguk.bsky.social

lucysullivan.bsky.social•539 days ago

Yep & CPUK has organised a legal letter to revoke copyright usage for creators. I’ve signed it as have many others. It’ll soon be a very complicated issue if Frazer decides to actually print any books.

imlgoulden.bsky.social•539 days ago

Deservedly so, I hope he's been reported for fraud - it's absolutely disgusting what he's done.

intelectconfig.wtf•539 days ago

Oh shit, goona quarantine myself away from that with a block. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

lucysullivan.bsky.social•539 days ago

Wise choice

zincstoat.uk•539 days ago

Signal boosted and pre-emptively blocked, thanks.

byrononeal.com•613 days ago

My first block here then. Thanks for the heads up.

lucysullivan.bsky.social•613 days ago

You’re most welcome. Forewarned & all that.

davis.social•619 days ago

Thank you for sharing Lucy! I had quote posted the Star Wars joke weeks ago and now deleted it. I didn’t know they were bad news. 🫣

lucysullivan.bsky.social•619 days ago

No worries Davis. If you’ve not come across Frazer you wouldn’t know. Glad you do though. Very bad news.

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