Matt Fraction

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December 12, 1975 in Chicago, The United States

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http://mattfraction.com/

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Comics & Graphic Novels

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"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.

Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.

"My mother was not happy about that," he said.

But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the openin...more

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Matt Fraction's Blog

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EMERALD CITY COMIC-CON 2012

KELLY SUE and I are at TABLE M-06

Come in and go STRAIGHT BACK.

(I'm between Brubaker and Mack. FINALLY!)

We've got lots of stuff with us. CASANOVA, FIVE FISTS, OSBORN, CASTLE, IRON MAN omnibii and the IRON FIST omnibus and THOR books so on and so forth. Even a couple Spanish edition CASANOVA: LUXURIA volumes for any Cass superfans that might show up.

I didn't get my copies of AVARITIA #3 bef...

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Books by Matt Fraction

Average rating: 3.77 · 9,672 ratings · 847 reviews · 67 distinct works

	The Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 1: The Five Nightmares by Matt Fraction, Salvador Larroca 3.95 avg rating — 765 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Casanova: Luxuria (Casanova, #1) by Matt Fraction, Gabriel Bá (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia by Matt Fraction, Marc Silvestri (Illustrator), Terry Dodson (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Civil War: Punisher War Journal by Matt Fraction, Mike Deodato (Illustrator), Ariel Olivetti (Artist) 3.71 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 2: World's Most Wanted, Book 1 by Matt Fraction, Salvador Larroca (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Five Fists Of Science by Matt Fraction, Steven Sanders (illustrator) 3.51 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Invincible Iron Man - Volume 1 by Matt Fraction, Salvador Larroca (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 3: World's Most Wanted, Book 2 by Matt Fraction, Salvador Larroca 4.02 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Uncanny X-Men: Nation X by Matt Fraction, Greg Land (Illustrator), Mike Allred (Illustrations) 3.56 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fear Itself by Matt Fraction, Stuart Immonen (Illustrator) 3.10 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Matt Fraction

The Invincible Iron Man (9 books)
by Matt Fraction, Salvador Larroca, Kano, Howard Chaykin, Carmine Di Giandomenico

3.90 avg rating — 2,220 ratings

Casanova (3 books)
by Matt Fraction, Gabriel Bá (Illustrator), Fábio Moon (Illustrator)

4.06 avg rating — 596 ratings

Punisher War Journal (5 books)
by Matt Fraction, Rick Remender, Simon Spurrier, Howard Chaykin (Illustrations), Werther Dell'Edera (Illustrations)

3.43 avg rating — 654 ratings

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Quotes by Matt Fraction

“I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you�re dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.”
― Matt Fraction

tags: interview

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“Nay, father.
Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party.
- Thor, God of Thunder”
― Matt Fraction, Thor: Ages of Thunder

tags: comic-books , gods , mythology

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“Heil Hitler, Y'all”
― Matt Fraction, Punisher War Journal - Volume 2: Goin' Out West

tags: redneck-racist

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