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When Chip Zdarsky won a Harvey Award at Baltimore Comic-Con, the Harvey Special Award for Humor for his work on Sex Criminals, he turned it down because it didn't recognise the work of the book's writer, Matt Fraction. Tomorrow's issue of Sex Criminals celebrates this award, and act, by taking Matt Fraction's name off the cover entirely. Don't[...]

Image Comics have announced the winners of the #BrimperSketch contest, taking the second printing of Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's Sex Criminals #11 and transforming it…. "Rainbow Faces" took first place in the contest with "Buscemi Faces" in second place and "Brimpception Redux" in third. "RAINBOW FACES is the winner!" Zdarsky declared "It subverts your expectations around 'faces'[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Milkfed is the company founded by Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick that publishes comics through Image, and now makes TV shoes through Universal And prides itself on having the coolset people as part of their operation. The Milkfed panel was always going to be wild But it began with a birthday cake from Brian Bendis[...]

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[...]

Which suggests that Southern Bastards does better for him than Spider-Gwen… Some have asked why Matt Fraction isn't doing any more Marvel comics Well with ODY-C, Satellite Sam and especially Sex Criminals at Image – why would he take a pay cut? These are common comic book work-for-hire industry rates, compiled by Alex De Campi, and[...]

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 and Kelly Sue DeConnick's deal with Universal Studios to create television series, will include a show based on The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson, currently published by Image Comics.One of Bleeding Cool's favourite current comics, the series about returning gods possessing the bodies of the young,[...]

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[...]

It's currently scheduled for July. But the very late Hawkeye #22 has, it seems, been ready for a while. Really, again, no idea about Hawkeye #22 schedule

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

LATE: An occasional feature dedicated to comic books taking wee longer time to make it to the shelves than otherwise expected. We begin with Hawkguy.

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 –[...]

"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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: Thanks for pressing play! Another awesome week of comics that will take us right into the Thanksgiving holiday here in the USA! There still is soooo much going on this week as we get even more Godhead storyline in Red Lanterns, Time is still running out for the Avengers, Nova and[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And while Matt Fraction may have no work at Marvel Comics after Hawkeye right now, that still doesn't mean he can't get involved in their[...]

But how does FRANKLIN RICHARDS factor in? And how does this all lead to…The END?! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #642-644 and the Triple Sized Final Issue 645! Fantastic Four Vol 3 ended with legacy numbering of #611, Matt Fraction's run went to #16, which would add up to #627 December's 2014's solicited issue for the current volume[...]

Seriously, it's by far the best way to do this. This November, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, creators of the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning bestselling Image Comics series SEX CRIMINALS, will share some of the sexual wisdom that only a year spent creating a comic book about a couple who stop time when they climax can[...]

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 —[...]

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[...]