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The Very Rude Sex Criminals #11 Sketch Variants Sell For Over $90
Both bagged, one hid a 1:35 sketch by the creators, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, the other, a secret cover by Bryan O'Malley. This Sex Criminals #11 sketch cover by Fraction, has sold for $150 NSFW obviously. Another equally NSFW sketch from Matt has sold for $145. While this more tasteful smooth bum by Zdarsky sold for $140[...]
SDCC '15: Chip Zdarsky – A Life
The anarchism of Chip Zdarsky is alive and well in this panel. Chip starts at the beginning, talking how he liked comics and he liked to draw, but school ruined any hopes of making money doing it after getting a C- in art….he has since been back to that school to lecture about art. He joked about[...]
Satellite Sam Will Return From Fraction And Chaykin As A TV Western
One of the comic books I enjoyed the most the past year was Satellite Sam by Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin, a procedural television show from the fifties embroiled in organised crime, murder and sexual depravity… At Heroes Con, it was announced that after the final issue, out soon, the series will continue in 2016 or[...]
Sealed Sketches And Nail Art For Sex Criminals
There may be no more exclusive retailer variant covers for Sex Criminals, by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky But there are plenty of other imaginative promotional options available to the pair. Such as printing 1,000 copies of the 35,000 print run of Sex Criminals #11 as blankish sketch covers and spending the day drawing genitalia and[...]
Matt Fraction To Guest On Late Night With Seth Meyers
Matt Fraction has told the world in his and Kelly Sue DeConnick's newsletter, that he will be appearing in Late Night With Seth Meyer as a guest in a week-and-a-bit on Thursday, May 21st, He tells his audience, I have a really cool treat cooked up for the show, so — so yeah Tune in! DVR that[...]
Don't Bank With Axel Alonso For Secret Wars?
And that's the word. No, wait, that was Colbert. Anyway. Oh , and in related news, Hawkeye #22 by Matt Fraction and David Aja is now scheduled for the 15th of July 2015, the fourth trade paperback collection from January this year to 29th July, the second hardcover collection from February to September and  the hardcover Omnibus from this[...]
Matt Fraction On *That* Deal, And Appointment Of Lauren Sankovitch And Kit Cox
On his and Kelly Sue McConnick's mailing list, Matt Fraction wrote about the news that they have entered into a two year deal with Universal regarding their work for television. I was reminded of Kelly Sue DeConnick's comment that she took the Prometheus gig at Dark Horse, so she could be part of a writers room-style environment/summit, something that[...]
Sex Criminals A Steal On eBay
The news that Sex Criminals is being developed by Universal Studios on a TV deal with Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick has led to a massive increase in interest in back issues of the comic. A few days ago, an unslabbed copy of the standard cover for Sex Criminals #1 sold for $16, while the Ghost[...]
Fraction And DeConnick Sign With UniversalTV To Adapt Sex Criminals
Matt Fraction And Kelly Sue DeConnick have signed a two-year deal with Universal TV to adapt some of their comic properties for television as well as some original TV series concepts Their Milkfed Criminal Masterminds production company will also be used to as a launch pad for other comic creator's IPs They have hired Lauren Sankovitch[...]
From Strip To Script – Casanova #1
How's that working out for him? (Poorly)"; that thing of spy/thief/whatever fiction I dig as work fiction… Okay. Casanova is a blatantly personal work that also means a lot to me personally, and doing my thing on it feels a little hinky, so I've been putting it off. But I've also got a job to do, so. This is[...]
More Satellite Sam For Your $2.99, From Fraction And Chaykin
Matt Fraction has the end of his and Howard Chaykin's period masterpiece Satellite Sam in sight The home stretch of SATELLITE SAM lies under my shoes; with luck, I will finish this week Most of the issues of "volume three" (subtitled something like 'Satellite Sam and the Limestone Caves of Fire') span more than twenty pages; I[...]
Prettier Deadlier For 2015…
We have also mentioned that new-to-Image writer Marjorie Liu will be bringing a Marvel artist with her…. Well, yesterday Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction sent out their upcoming schedule on their rather wonderful newsletter (sign up here). December 20 – KS & MF Signing at Cosmic Monkey, Portand, OR January 7 – ODY-C #2 in stores January 8 –[...]
From Strip To Script – Hawkeye #6
"Plot-first" means that the artist provides a summary of the issue's plot, either broadly or on a page-by-page basis, and then fills in the dialogue based on how the artist has depicted that loose outline. Some writers (and this is how I originally started scripting, believe it or not) do a kind of mix between full[...]
The Lick-Ed And The Divine, From Today's Sex Criminals
But special mention must be made of the porn-shoot-within-a-comic-book, as one adult actress discovers that which was taken from her, and gives her access to sex-time as well. And the shoot in question? Because that's the world from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky that the Sex Criminals live in Where there are porn parodies of Image comics[...]
Hawkeye Misses Another Target…
Mister Ferro on the Bleeding Cool message board points out the latest schedule for the increasingly delayed final issues of Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye. Hawkeye #21 was originally solicited to be published in June this year But then schedules started to… miss their target. On 11th November Hawkeye #21 moved to 12/24/14. Yesterday Hawkeye #21 moved to 1/14/15[...]
The Iron Man That Dared Not Speak Its Name At Disney's Avengers Half Marathon (UPDATE)
Regular readers of Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick's newsletter know that today Fraction was running, and DeConnick was walking, an Avengers half marathon at Disneyland But someone was missing.. A reader writes, My wife and I are at Disneyland this weekend as she is running in the Disney Avengers Superhero Half Marathon on Sunday (dressing as[...]
Shield And Angela Top Advance Reorder Charts, With Sex Tips Inappropriately Close Behind
But joining the party is Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's Just The Tips sex guide book cobbled together from the letters pages of Sex Criminals Clearly a lot of interest in this book… TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs (RETAIL) Product Price Publisher SHIELD #1 $4.99 MAR DEATH OF WOLVERINE #2 (OF 4) 3RD PTG MCNIVEN VAR $4.99 MAR ANGELA ASGARDS ASSASSIN #1 $3.99 MAR SHIELD #1 YOUNG VAR $4.99 MAR THANOS[...]
Fraction, Ba And Moon's Casanova Collected In 3 Deluxe Hardcover Editions
Matt Fraction (Hawkeye), Gabriel Ba (The Umbrella Academy) and Fabio Moon (B.P.R.D.) are getting their Image Comic series Casanova collected into three deluxe hardcover Complete Editions coming out once a month starting in October. Casanova "Cass" Quinn was born into a life of privilege but turned his back on it to pursue his own interests —[...]
Satellite Sam And The Limestone Caves Of Fire In 2015
Back in January, Matt Fraction talked about the scope and future of Satellite Sam, his Image comic with Howard Chaykin.  "The Death of Satellite Sam," "Satellite Sam and the Snuff-Fuck Kinescope," and "Satellite Sam and the Limestone Caves of Fire." All together, those'll tell the story of Michael and Carlyle and the Le Monde Network and[...]
An Inhuman Number Of Variants On Their Way…
The future of comics starring Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's The Inhumans character at Marvel are very important to the publisher, which is why the big names of Matt Fraction and Joe Madueira were originally put on the Inhuman series But that pressure may have contributed to what saw Fraction to walk off the book,[...]