Matt Fraction's Blog, page 132

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Starbucks finally got my name right.

Hey kids comics

Hey kids comics

furtho:Renzo Picasso’s architectural sketch of Piccadilly...

furtho:

Renzo Picasso’s architectural sketch of Piccadilly Circus, London, 1929

Will there be a hardcover of Casanova Acedia to match the others? My passion for matching volumes and premium sized Ba and Moon art hopes the answer is yes.

yeah. one day.

Hey Matt huge fan here! I'm curious about something after having a discussion I had with my girlfriend. Would you consider comic books/ graphic novels literature? As in teachable in schools and whatnot. Or more of a sub category of its own design?

no; i’d consider comic books and graphic novels comic books and graphic novels, and very MUCH teachable in schools and whatnot. a vital artform with its own history language idiom craft and culture. i think a lot of bad thinking happens when someone applies the critical frameworks of one artform to another and takes the result as a given. comics shares a lot with the written word. it shares a lot with the drawn image. it shares a lot with film. but there are things unique to comics and only c...

Prince was the Eternal Champion, his weapon was the guitar.

john has a long mustache

Hey Mr. Fraction, Odd question for you. My wife just informed me that for my 40th birthday (December 1st), her and a few of my friends organized a trip to Portland for us so I can go to the Micheal Chabon reading. Are you going to this reading? I only ask

oh shit! well, first off, happy birthday. second, i’m gonna be in Eugene that weekend, and miss MC and the whole thing, which super-sucks. Also MOONGLOW is really fucking wonderful.

you could just send it to our PO Box:

PO Box 25662
Portland, OR 97298

and i’ll send it back signed, how‘bout that?

Matt. I'm a Dodgers fan. In my life time I have yet to see them win a World Series. In case we lose tonight let me just say I'm rooting for the Cubs.

I gotta say I was sorry Vin didn’t come back for one last game in the post-season.

I can't decide whether it's more embarrassing that Blofeld is the driver of the drive-by at the end of OHMSS, or if it'd be more awkward were he the trigger man?

ooh. ooh, wow, that’s good. i’d never thought of that. Blofeld: Alpha Cuck.

Forgive me if this has been asked before, but how did you get involved with writing Da Vinci's Demons?

wholly through david goyer, who created the show. tv staffs have to hire freelance writers twice per every 13 episodes – or at least DvD did – and david more than most gets the frustrating paradox of needing work to get experience but needing experience to get work. being a comic guy as both a writer and a reader he knew my stuff (hickman’s, too – he did an ep. a few down the road from me) and thought he saw someone that could write for TV. he literally cold-called out of the blue and asked,...