Matt Fraction

Matt Fraction
Fraction at the Midtown Comics booth at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
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, 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.

Early life

Matt Fraction was born Matt Fritchman on December 1, 1975 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Fraction developed an affinity for telling stories as a child, and enjoyed reading both comic books and comic strips. The first comic he remembers buying was Batman #316. Comic strips he enjoyed included Peanuts and Doonesbury. He became a regular, weekly comic reader around the time that the 1985-86 DC Comics storyline Crisis on Infinite Earths ended, though he found that storyline too bizarre and impenetrable to a new reader, and as a result, gravitated toward Marvel Comics, finding Spider-Man to be his favorite, along with other books such as Star Wars and G.I. Joe.

Career

Fraction wrote two columns for Comic Book Resources: "Poplife" and "The Basement Tapes", 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. He wrote 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. He also wrote the Iron Man 2 video game that tied into that film sequel.

In 2011 Fraction wrote the event limited series Fear Itself, which was the central book of the crossover storyline of the same name. In December 2011 he launched a new Defenders series with artist Terry Dodson. In August 2012 he launched a new Hawkeye series with David Aja.

Personal life

Fraction is married to Kelly Sue DeConnick, a comics writer and adapter of manga into English. They have two children, Henry and Tallulah.

Awards

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

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)

Bibliography

Early work

• AiT/Planet Lar:
  • Double Take #6-8 (with Andy Kuhn, 2001-2002) collected as The Annotated Mantooth! (tpb, 96 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-932051-05-8)
  • Last of the Independents (with Kieron Dwyer, graphic novel, tpb, 104 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-932051-14-7)
• 30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales #1-8: "Juarez or Lex Nova & the Case of the 400 Dead Mexican Girls" (with Ben Templesmith, IDW Publishing, 2004-2005) collected in 30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales (hc, 200 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-933239-11-5; tpb, 2005, ISBN 1-932382-78-X)

Image Comics

• Four Letter Worlds: "Fate" (with Kieron Dwyer, graphic novel, tpb, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-58240-439-9)
• 24Seven Volume 1: "Static" (with Frazer Irving, graphic novel, tpb, 224 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-636-7)
• The Five Fists of Science (with Steven Sanders, graphic novel, tpb, 112 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-605-7)
• Casanova #1-14 (with Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, 2006-2008)
  • Issues #1-7 were collected as Album 1: Luxuria (hc, 144 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-58240-689-8; tpb, 2008, ISBN 1-58240-897-1).
  • The series was later recolored, relettered and compressed into two four-issue mini-series released under Marvel's Icon imprint.
• Satellite Sam #1-ongoing (with Howard Chaykin, 2013-...)
• Sex Criminals #1-ongoing (with Chip Zdarsky, 2013-...)

Marvel/Icon Comics

• X-Men:
  • X-Men Unlimited #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: (July 2008-March 2011)
    • Manifest Destiny (hc, 208 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3817-X; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2451-9) includes:
      • "SFX" (with Ed Brubaker, Terry Dodson and Greg Land, in #500-503, 2008)
    • Lovelorn (tpb, 136 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2999-5) collects:
      • "Lovelorn" (with Terry Dodson, in #504-507, 2009)
      • "White Queen, Dark Reign" (with Mitch Breitweiser and Daniel Acuña, in Annual #2, 2009)
    • Sisterhood (tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4105-7) collects:
      • "Sisterhood" (with Greg Land, in #508-511, 2009)
      • "The Origins of the Species" (with Yanick Paquette, in #512, 2009)
    • 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: "How I Survived Apocalyptic Fire" (with Daniel Acuña, one-shot, 2009)
      • Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia (with Marc Silvestri, one-shot, 2009)
      • "Utopia, Parts Two & Four" (with Terry Dodson, in #513-514, 2009)
      • "Utopia, Parts Three & Five" (with Luke Ross, in Dark Avengers #7-8, 2009)
      • Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus (with Terry Dodson and Mike Deodato, Jr., one-shot, 2009)
    • Nation X (hc, 360 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3873-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4103-0) collects:
      • Dark Reign: The List - X-Men (with Alan Davis, one-shot, 2009)
      • "Nation X" (with Greg Land and Terry Dodson, in #515-521, 2009-2010)
      • "Ghostly" (with Whilce Portacio, in #522, 2010)
      • "The End of the World and Everything After" (with Phil Jimenez, in #522, 2010)
    • Second Coming (hc, 392 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4678-4; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5705-0) includes:
      • "Parts Two, Six & Ten" (with Terry Dodson, in #523-525, 2010)
      • "Epilogue" (with Terry Dodson, in Second Coming #2, 2010)
    • The Birth of Generation Hope (tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4643-1) collects:
      • The Heroic Age (with Whilce Portacio, Steven Sanders and Jamie McKelvie, one-shot, 2010)
      • "The Five Lights" (with Whilce Portacio, in #526-529, 2010)
    • Quarantine (collects #530-534, tpb, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5225-3) collects:
      • "Quarantine" (with Kieron Gillen and Greg Land, in #530-534, 2011)
• The Immortal Iron Fist Omnibus (February 2007-Augest 2008) (hc, 560 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3819-6) collects:
  • "Prologue" (with Ed Brubaker and David Aja, in Civil War: Choosing Sides one-shot, 2006)
  • "The Last Iron Fist Story" (with David Aja, Travel Foreman, John Severin, Russ Heath, Jr. and Sal Buscema, in #1-6, 2007)
  • "The Pirate Queen of Pinghai Bay" (with Travel Foreman, Leandro Fernandez and Khari Evans, in #7, 2007)
  • "Men of a Certain Deadly Persuasion" (with Dan Brereton, Howard Chaykin and Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic, in Annual #1, 2007)
  • "The 7 Capital Cities of Heaven" (with David Aja, Roy Martinez, Scott Koblish, Kano, Javier Pulido, Tonci Zonjic and Clay Mann, in #8-14, 2007-2008)
  • Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death (with Mitch Breitweiser, Russ Heath, Jr., Nick Dragotta and Lewis LaRosa, one-shot, 2008)
  • "The Story of the Iron Fist Bei Bang-Wen (1827-1860)" (with Khari Evans, in #15, 2008)
  • "Happy Birthday Danny" (with David Aja, in #16, 2008)
• Punisher War Journal v2 (January, 2007-February, 2009):
  • Civil War (hc, 144 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2775-5; tpb, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2315-6) collects:
    • "How I Won the War" (with Ariel Olivetti, in #1-3, 2007)
    • "Small Wake for a Tall Man" (with Mike Deodato, Jr., in #4, 2007)
  • Goin' Out West (hc, 168 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2852-2; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2636-8) collects:
    • "Goin' Out West" (with Ariel Olivetti, in #5-10, 2007)
    • "Heroes and Villains" (with Leandro Fernandez, in #11, 2007)
  • Hunter/Hunted (hc, 152 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3021-7; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2664-3) collects:
    • "World War Frank" (with Ariel Olivetti, in #12, 2007)
    • "Hunter/Hunted" (with Cory Walker and Scott Wegener, in #13-15, 2008)
    • "The Survivor's Guild" (with Howard Chaykin, in #16, 2008)
    • "How I Survived the Good Ol' Days" (with Howard Chaykin, in #17, 2008)
  • Jigsaw (hc, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3022-5; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2964-2) collects:
    • "Jigsaw" (with Rick Remender and Howard Chaykin, in #18-23, 2008)
  • Secret Invasion (collects #24-26, hc, 120 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3148-5; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3170-1) collects:
    • "Secret Invasion" (with Howard Chaykin, in #24-25, 2008-2009)
    • "Finale" (with Andy MacDonald, in #26, 2009)
• 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 (September 2007- June 2008)(with Barry Kitson, 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)
• The Invincible Iron Man (May 2008-October 2012) (with Salvador Larroca, 2008-2012) 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 0-7851-4555-9; 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 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 '10: Iron Man/Thor one-shot, hc, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5322-5; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5323-3)
  • Fear Itself (collects Fear Itself #7.3 and #504-509, hc, 168 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5773-5; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5774-3)
  • Demon (collects #510-515, hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6046-9; tpb, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6047-7)
  • Long Way Down (collects #516-520, hc, 112 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6048-5; tpb, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6049-3)
  • The Future (collects #521-527, hc, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6521-5; tpb, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6522-3)
• 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 Patrick Zircher, one-shot, 2008)
    • Reign of Blood (with Patrick Zircher, one-shot, 2008)
    • Man of War (with Patrick Zircher and Clay Mann, one-shot, 2009)
    • God-Sized Special (with Daniel Brereton, Doug Braithwaite, Mike Allred and Miguel Sepulveda, one-shot, 2009)
  • Secret Invasion: Thor #1-3 (with Doug Braithwaite, 2008) collected as Secret Invasion: Thor (tpb, 96 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3426-3)
  • Thor #615-621 (September 2010- March 2011) (with Pasqual Ferry, 2010-2011) collected as Thor: The World Eaters (hc, 216 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4838-8; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4839-6)
  • Fear Itself #1-7 (with Stuart Immonen, 2011) collected as Fear Itself (hc, 240 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5662-3; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5663-1)
  • The Mighty Thor (April 2011- October 2012):
    • Volume 1 (hc, 144 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5691-7; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5624-0) collects:
      • "The Galactuts Seed" (with Olivier Coipel, in #1-6, 2011)
    • Volume 2 (hc, 168 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6243-7; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5625-9) collects:
      • "Fear Itself: In the Beginning..." (with Pasqual Ferry, in #7, 2011)
      • Fear Itself #7.2 (with Adam Kubert, 2012)
      • "The Mighty Tanarus" (with Pasqual Ferry and Pepe Larraz, in #8-12, 2012)
    • Volume 3 (hc, 136 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6166-X; tpb, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6167-8) collects:
      • "Battles Past" (with Barry Kitson, in #12.1, 2012)
      • "The Neverending Nightmare" (with Pepe Larraz, in #13-17, 2012)
    • Everything Burns (hc, 216 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6168-6; tpb, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6169-4) collects:
      • "Prologue" (with Kieron Gillen and Alan Davis, in #18, 2012)
      • "Parts the Second, the Fourth and the Sixth" (with Kieron Gillen and Carmine Di Giandomenico, in #19-21, 2012)
      • "Finale" (with Barry Kitson, in #22, 2012)
• The Amazing Spider-Man: Presidents' Day Celebration: "Gettysburg Distress!" (with Andy MacDonald, one-shot, 2009)
• 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)
• Casanova (with Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, 2010-2012) collected as:
  • Luxuria (collects v1 #1-4, tpb, 160 pges, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4862-0)
  • Gula (collects v2 #1-4, tpb, 136 pges, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4863-9)
  • Avaritia (collects v3 #1-4, tpb, 152 pges, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4864-7)
• Shattered Heroes (with Chris Yost and Cullen Bunn):
  • Fear Itself: The Fearless #1-12 (with Mark Bagley and Paul Pelletier, 2011-2012)
  • Battle Scars #1-6 (with Scot Eaton, 2011-2012)
• Defenders (December 2011-November 201)2:
  • Volume 1 (tpb, 136 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5851-0) collects:
    • "The Shaman of Greenwich Village" (with Terry Dodson, in Marvel: Point One, 2011)
    • "Breaker of Worlds" (with Terry Dodson, in #1-3, 2012)
    • "Strange: The French Drop" (with Michael Lark, in #4, 2012)
    • "Namor: The 99 Daughters of Pontus" (with Mitch Breiweiser, in #5, 2012)
    • "Iron Fist: The Confederates of the Curious" (with Víctor Ibáñez, in #6, 2012)
  • Volume 2 (tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-5853-7) collects:
    • "Shut the Engines Down" (with Jamie McKelvie and Mirco Pierfederici, in #7-12, 2012)
• Avengers vs. X-Men (hc, 568 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6317-4) includes:
  • "Round Five" (with John Romita, Jr., in #5, 2012)
  • "Round Seven" (with Olivier Coipel, in #7, 2012)
  • "Hawkeye vs. Angel" (with Leinil Francis Yu, in AvX: VS #5, 2012)
• Hawkeye (August 2012-Present):
  • My Life as a Weapon (tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6562-2) collects:
    • "Lucky" (with David Aja, in #1, 2012)
    • "Vagabond Code" (with David Aja, in #2, 2012)
    • "Cherry" (with David Aja, in #3, 2012)
    • "The Tape" (with Javier Pulido, in #4-5, 2013)
    • Young Avengers Presents #6 (with Alan Davis, 2008)
  • Little Hits (tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6563-0) collects:
    • "Six Days in the Life of" (with David Aja, in #6, 2013)
    • "Untitled" (with Steve Lieber and Jesse Hamm, in #7, 2013)
    • "My Bad Penny" (with David Aja and Annie Wu, in #8, 2013)
    • "Enter: The Clown" (with David Aja, in #9, 2013)
    • "Who Pulled the Trigger" (with Francesco Francavilla, in #10, 2013)
    • "Pizza is My Business" (with David Aja, in #11, 2013)
• Fantastic Four v4 #1-ongoing (November 2012-Present) (with Mark Bagley, 2013-...)
• FF v2 #1-ongoing (November 2012-Present) (with Mike Allred, 2013-...)

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". Marvel.com
• "Interviews > Matt Fraction". SuicideGirls
• "What If James Bond Dug the Wu-Tang Clan". GQ,
• Tramountanas, George A. "X-POSITION: Matt Fraction". Comic Book Resources. September 3, 2008
• "A comic book writer's secret identity revealed". The Los Angeles Times. September 6, 2009
• "Satellite Sam. Sex Criminals. Hawkeye.". GeeksUnleashed.Me. January 29, 2013

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
• The Cort and Fatboy Show with Matt Fraction September 18, 2012

Preceded by Ed Brubaker	Uncanny X-Men writer 2008-2011	Succeeded by Kieron Gillen
Preceded by Daniel & Charles Knauf	Iron Man writer 2008-2012	Succeeded by Kieron Gillen
Preceded by Kieron Gillen	Thor writer 2010-2012	Succeeded by Jason Aaron
Preceded by Jonathan Hickman	Fantastic Four writer 2012-Present	Succeeded by Current Writer
Preceded by Jonathan Hickman	FF writer 2012-Present	Succeeded by Current Writer