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  <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;&quot;How he got started in comics:&lt;/b&gt; 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. &quot;I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words,&quot; he said.

&lt;b&gt;Education and first job:&lt;/b&gt; 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.

&quot;My mother was not happy about that,&quot; 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 opening credits for the James Bond film &quot;Quantum of Solace.&quot;

&lt;b&gt;Big break:&lt;/b&gt; While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: &quot;The Last of the Independents,&quot; published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and &quot;Casanova,&quot; published in 2006 by Image Comics.

Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.

&lt;b&gt;Say what?&lt;/b&gt; &quot;It was terrifying,&quot; said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. &quot;I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job.&quot;

Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. &quot;I got very lucky,&quot; he half-joked. &quot;If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;i&gt;- 2009. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-himi6-2009sep06,0,416021.story&gt;&quot;A comic book writer's secret identity revealed&quot;&lt;/a&gt; Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.&lt;/i&gt;]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Chicago</hometown>  <born_at>12/12/1975</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Casanova Vol. 1: Luxuria]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gabriel Bá]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.22</average_rating>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Five Fists Of Science]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Steven Sanders]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.62</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>122</ratings_count>
  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Invincible Iron Man Volume 1: The Five Nightmares Premiere HC]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Salvador Larroca]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.91</average_rating>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Punisher War Journal Volume 1: Civil War Premiere HC]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Order Vol. 1: The Next Right Thing]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barry Kitson]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mark Morales]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.62</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>52</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Casanova Vol. 2: Gula]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Gabriel Bá]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Fabio Moon]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.54</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>28</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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        <book id="773414">
  <title><![CDATA[Last Of The Independents]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Kieron Dwyer]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.77</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>31</ratings_count>
  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Punisher War Journal: Premiere v. 2]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ariel Olivetti]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Leandro Fernandez]]></name>
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        <book id="6225668">
  <title><![CDATA[Invincible Iron Man: World's Most Wanted 1]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Salvador Larroca]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.85</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>26</ratings_count>
  <published>2009</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Order Volume 2: California Dreaming TPB (Order 2)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matt Fraction]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barry Kitson]]></name>
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