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Satellite Sam Compendium
416 pages, Paperback
Published September 3, 2024
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Matt Fraction
1,228 books1,876 followers"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 opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: 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: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," 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.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
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 opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: 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: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," 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.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
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February 22, 2026
Satellite Sam Compendium by Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin.
The thinnest Compendium i own but still this took me some time to finish. Very unlikable people, but i guess that's the point. The story is set in the 50s the golden age of television, surrouding a tv network and its show Satellite Sam, all these guys are misogynistic pigs, drinking vile creatures who take advantage of woman, its kinda noir, a murder mystery, as secret life, murder, sex, obssesion, the story gets better and Better nearing the end, and this was a good read, it just took me some time to apreciate it.
7/10
The thinnest Compendium i own but still this took me some time to finish. Very unlikable people, but i guess that's the point. The story is set in the 50s the golden age of television, surrouding a tv network and its show Satellite Sam, all these guys are misogynistic pigs, drinking vile creatures who take advantage of woman, its kinda noir, a murder mystery, as secret life, murder, sex, obssesion, the story gets better and Better nearing the end, and this was a good read, it just took me some time to apreciate it.
7/10
September 28, 2024
Matt Fraction’s love letter to Howard Chaykin. Meticulous and authentic. Brilliant.
November 15, 2025
Fraction and Chaykin are two of my very favorite creators, and this is one of the best things that either of them have done.
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