Matt Fraction

Matt Fraction
Fraction at Midtown Comics Times Square in Manhattan, November 15, 2008.
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	The Invincible Iron Man The Immortal Iron Fist Casanova Uncanny X-Men
Awards	"Favourite Newcomer Writer" Eagle Award (2007) "Best New Series" Eisner Award (2009)
Official website

Matt Fritchman, better known by the pen name Matt Fraction,^[1] is an Eisner Award-winning American comic book writer, known for his work as the writer of The Invincible Iron Man, The Immortal Iron Fist and Uncanny X-Men for Marvel Comics and Casanova for Image Comics.

Career

Fraction wrote two columns for Comic Book Resources: "Poplife"^[2] and "The Basement Tapes",^[3] the latter with Joe Casey.

Fraction started creating comics with smaller publishers including AiT/Planet Lar and IDW Publishing. He became known early in his career for his creator-owned work on The Five Fists of Science and Casanova, before taking on a number of increasingly high-profile assignments for Marvel Comics.

Fraction teamed with Ed Brubaker for an acclaimed run on Marvel's The Immortal Iron Fist. The pair re-teamed on Uncanny X-Men for a short time, after which Fraction wrote the series solo until leaving it in 2011^[4]. He is currently writing The Mighty Thor and The Invincible Iron Man, the latter of which led to his consulting work on the set of the film Iron Man 2.^[5] He also wrote the Iron Man 2 video game that tied into that film sequel.^[6]

In 2011 Fraction wrote the event limited series Fear Itself, which was the central book of the crossover storyline of the same name.^[7][8] His next project is a late 2011 relaunch of Defenders with artist Terry Dodson^[9]

Personal life

Fraction is married to Kelly Sue DeConnick, a comics writer and adapter of manga into English.^[10] They have two children.^[11]

Awards

• 2007: "Favourite Newcomer Writer" Eagle Award
• 2009: Eisner Award for "Best New Series" for The Invincible Iron Man (shared with Salvador Larroca)^[12]
• 2010: Pen Center Literary Award for "Outstanding Body of Work"^[13]

Nominations

• 2008 Eisner Award for "Best Single Issue" (or One-Shot) for The Sensational Spider-Man Annual (shared with Salvador Larroca).
• 2008 Eisner Award for "Best New Series" for The Immortal Iron Fist (shared with Ed Brubaker, David Aja and others)^[14]

Bibliography

Early work

Titles published by various American publishers include:

• AiT/Planet Lar:
  • Double Take #6-8 (with Andy Kuhn, 2001-2002) collected as The Annotated Mantooth! (tpb, 96 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-9320-5105-8)
  • Last of the Independents (with Kieron Dwyer, graphic novel, tpb, 104 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-9320-5114-7)
• 30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales #1-8: "Juarez or Lex Nova & The Case of the 400 Dead Mexican Girls" (with Ben Templesmith, IDW, 2004-2005)
  collected as 30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales (hc, 200 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-9332-3911-5; tpb, 2005, ISBN 1-9323-8278-X)
• Image:
  • Four Letter Worlds: "Fate" (with Kieron Dwyer, graphic novel, tpb, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-5824-0439-9)
  • 24Seven vol.1: "Static" (with Frazer Irving, graphic novel, tpb, 224 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-5824-0636-7)
  • The Five Fists of Science (with Steven Sanders, graphic novel, tpb, 112 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-5824-0605-7)
  • Casanova (with Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, 2006-2008) collected as:
    • Luxuria (collects #1-7, hc, 144 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-5824-0689-8; tpb, 2008, ISBN 1-5824-0897-1)
    • Gula (collects #8-14, hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-5824-0866-1)
• Casanova: Avaritia #1-4 (with Gabriel Bá, Icon, 2011) collected as Casanova: Avaritia (tpb, 152 pges, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4864-7)

Marvel Comics

Titles published by Marvel include:

• X-Men:
  • X-Men Unlimited v2 #9: "Dead Man Walking" (with Sam Kieth, 2005)
  • X-Men: Divided We Stand #1: "Migas" (with Jamie McKelvie, 2008) collected in X-Men: Divided We Stand (tpb, 136 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3265-1)
  • Uncanny X-Men (with Ed Brubaker, Greg Land, Terry Dodson, Mitch Breitweiser, Daniel Acuña, Yanick Paquette, Alan Davis, Whilce Portacio, Phil Jimenez, Leonard Kirk, Harvey Tolibao, Steven Sanders, Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen and Paul Renaud, 2008-2011) collected as:
    • Manifest Destiny (includes #500-503, hc, 208 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3817-X; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2451-9)
    • Lovelorn (collects #504-507, and Annual #2, tpb, 136 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2999-5)
    • Sisterhood (collects #508-512, tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4105-7)
    • Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia (hc, 368 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4233-9; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4234-7) includes:
      • Dark Reign: The Cabal: "Emma Frost: How I Survived Apocalyptic Fire" (with Daniel Acuña, one-shot, 2009)
      • Utopia: "Part One" (with Marc Silvestri, Michael Broussard, Eric Basaldu, Tyler Kirkham, Sheldon Mitchell, one-shot, 2009)
      • Uncanny X-Men #513-514: "Parts Two & Four" (with Terry Dodson, 2009)
      • Dark Avengers #7-8: "Parts Three & Five" (with Luke Ross, 2009)
      • Exodus: "Conclusion" (with Terry Dodson and Mike Deodato, Jr., one-shot, 2009)
    • Nation X (includes #515-522 and Dark Reign: The List - X-Men one-shot, hc, 360 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3873-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4103-0)
    • Second Coming (includes #523-525 and Second Coming #2, hc, 392 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4678-4; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5705-0)
    • The Birth of Generation Hope (collects #526-529, and The Heroic Age one-shot, tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4643-1)
    • Quarantine (collects #530-534, tpb, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5225-3)
• The Immortal Iron Fist (with Ed Brubaker, David Aja, Travel Foreman, Russ Heath, Jr., Sal Buscema, Khari Evans, Leandro Fernandez, Roy Allan Martinez, Scott Koblish, Jose Angel Cano Lopez, Javier Pulido, Tonci Zonjic, Clay Mann, Daniel Brereton, Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic, Howard Chaykin, Mitch Breitweiser, Nick Dragotta and Lewis LaRosa, 2007-2008) collected as:
  • The Last Iron Fist Story (collects #1-6 and Civil War: Choosing Sides one-shot, hc, 160 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2854-9; tpb, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2489-6)
  • The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven (collects #8-14 and Annual #1, hc, 216 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2992-8; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2535-3)
  • The Book of the Iron Fist (collects #7, 15-16 and two one-shots, hc, 160 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2993-6; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2536-1)
  • The Immortal Iron Fist Omnibus (collects #1-16, Annual #1 and the one-shots, hc, 560 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3819-6)
• Punisher War Journal v2 (with Ariel Olivetti, Mike Deodato, Jr., Leandro Fernandez, Cory Walker, Scott Wegener, Howard Chaykin, Rick Remender and
  Andy MacDonald, 2007-2009) collected as:
  • Civil War (collects #1-4, hc, 144 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2775-5; tpb, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2315-6)
  • Goin' Out West (collects #5-11, hc, 168 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2852-2; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2636-8)
  • Hunter/Hunted (collects #12-17, hc, 152 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3021-7; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2664-3)
  • Jigsaw (collects #18-23, hc, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3022-5; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2964-2)
  • Secret Invasion (collects #24-26, hc, 120 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3148-5; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3170-1
• The Sensational Spider-Man Annual #1: "To Have and to Hold" (with Salvador Larocca, 2007) collected in Peter Parker, Spider-Man: Back in Black (hc, 336 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2920-0; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2997-9)
• The Order (with Barry Kitson, Khari Evans and Javier Saltares, 2007-2008) collected as:
  • The Next Right Thing (collects #1-5, tpb, 128 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2795-X)
  • California Dreaming (collects #6-10, tpb, 120 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2796-8)
• Thor:
  • Thor: Ages of Thunder (hc, 160 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3567-7; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3568-5) collects:
    • Ages of Thunder (with Khari Evans and Patrick Zircher, one-shot, 2008)
    • Reign of Blood (with Khari Evans and Patrick Zircher, one-shot, 2008)
    • Man of War (with Patrick Zircher and Clay Mann, one-shot, 2009)
    • God-Sized Special (with Mike Allred, Doug Braithwaite, Miguel Sepulveda and Daniel Brereton, one-shot, 2009)
  • Secret Invasion: Thor (with Doug Braithwaite, 2008) collected as Secret Invasion: Thor (tpb, 96 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3426-3)
  • Thor #615-621 (with Pasqual Ferry, 2010-2011) collected as The World Eaters (hc, 216 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4838-8; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4839-6)
  • The Mighty Thor (with Olivier Coipel, 2011-...) collected as:
    • Galactus Seed (collects #1-6, hc, 144 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5691-7)
• The Invincible Iron Man (with Salvador Larroca, 2008-...) collected as:
  • The Five Nightmares (collects #1-7, hc, 184 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3461-1; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3412-3)
  • World's Most Wanted, Book 1 (collects #8-13, hc, 152 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3828-5; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3413-1)
  • World's Most Wanted, Book 2 (collects #14-19, hc, 160 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3935-4; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3685-1)
  • Stark Disassembled (collects #20-24, hc, 136 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4554-0; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-3686-X)
  • Stark Resilient, Book 1 (collects #25-28, hc, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 0785145559; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4556-7)
  • Stark Resilient, Book 2 (collects #29-33, hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4834-5; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4835-3)
  • My Monsters (collects #500, 500.1, 503 and Annual #1, hc, 168 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4836-1; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4837-X)
  • The Unfixable (includes #501-503 and FCBD 2010: Iron Man/Thor, hc, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5322-5; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5323-3)
  • Fear Itself (collects #504-509 and Fear Itself #7.2, hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5773-5)
• Young Avengers Presents #6: "Hawkeye" (with Alan Davis, 2008) collected in Young Avengers Presents (tpb, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2975-8)
• Captain America: Who Won't Wield the Shield?: "The Incredibly Normal and Bourgeois Idea of Doctor America, Occult Operative of Liberty" (with Howard Hallis and Brendan McCarthy, one-shot, 2010)
• Fear Itself #1-7 (with Stuart Immonen, 2011) collected as Fear Itself (hc, 240 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5662-3)
• The Fearless #1-12 (with Cullen Bunn, Christopher Yost, Mark Bagley and Paul Pelletier, 2011-2012)
• Defenders #1-ongoing (with Terry Dodson, 2011-...)

Notes

1. ^ ""Conversations with GoD: Matt Fraction" Geeks of Doom; September 29, 2008". Geeksofdoom.com. 2008-09-29. http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/29/conversations-with-god-matt-fraction/. Retrieved 2010-12-26. 
2. ^ Archive of "Poplife" columns by Matt Fraction at Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
3. ^ "The Basement Tapes" columns by Matt Fraction and Joe Casey at Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
4. ^ "Gillen Prepares His “Uncanny” Solo", Comic Book Resources, January 18, 2011
5. ^ Vitka, William (February 5, 2010). "Matt Fraction talks Iron Man (and a bunch of other stuff)". New York Post. http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/gamereport/matt_fraction_talks_iron_man_and_i98Z0Os53T94CFRC6UL1tL. 
6. ^ Busch, Jenna. "Comics' Matt Fraction on how he wrote the Iron Man 2 game", Blastr, August 3, 2009
7. ^ Manning, Shaun. "Marvel Announces 'Fear Itself'", Comic Book Resources, December 21, 2010
8. ^ Truitt, Brian. "Be afraid: Marvel's heroes gear up for 'Fear Itself'". USA Today. December 21, 2010
9. ^ Richards, Dave.[1], Comic Book Resources, July 24, 2011.
10. ^ Richards, Dave (April 6, 2010). "DeConnick On "Sif," "Rescue" and "Girl Comics"". Comic Book Resources. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25531. Retrieved July 27, 2010. 
11. ^ "The Bendis-Fraction Conversation" Comic-Con Magazine (Winter 2010). Pages 24-28
12. ^ "The 2009 Eisner Nominations Spotlight Newcomers". http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_09nom.shtml. Retrieved 2009-05-13. 
13. ^ MacDonald, Heidi. "Matt Fraction wins 2010 Pen Literary Award". http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/09/20/matt-fraction-wins-2010-pen-center-literery-awards/. 
14. ^ "2008 Eisner Awards at". Comic-con.org. 2008-02-16. http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_08nom.shtml. Retrieved 2010-12-26. 

References

• Matt Fraction at the Grand Comics Database

External links

• Official website
• Matt Fraction at the Comic Book DB
• Flickr page
• Matt Fraction's Resources at Howtomakecomics.net

Interviews

• Half Man/Half Adequate: The Matt Fraction Q&A on Marvel.com
• Interviews > Matt Fraction on SuicideGirls
• What If James Bond Dug the Wu-Tang Clan, GQ
• X-POSITION: Matt Fraction, Comic Book Resources, September 3, 2008
• A comic book writer's secret identity revealed, LA Times, September 6, 2009
• Malcolm, Kevin. Emerald City ComiCon Part 1; Backroom Comics Podcast; Episode 5; April 2009

Audio interviews

• Around Comics Episode 96 May 2, 2007
• Comic Geek Speak Episode 256 with Geoff Klock speaking about Casanova May 24, 2007
• Dollar Bin interview at Heroes Con 2007 June 28, 2007
• Fanboy Radio Episode 392 with wife Kelly Sue DeConnick May 20, 2007

Preceded by Ed Brubaker	Uncanny X-Men writer 2008-2011	Succeeded by Kieron Gillen
Preceded by Daniel & Charles Knauf	Iron Man writer 2008-	Succeeded by Current Writer
Preceded by Kieron Gillen	Thor writer 2010-	Succeeded by Current Writer

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Name	Fraction, Matt
Alternative names	Fritchman, Matt
Short description	American comic book writer
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