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Sex Criminals: The Complete Edition
- GenresGraphic NovelsComics
824 pages, Paperback
Published March 26, 2024
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About the author
Matt Fraction
1,221 books1,864 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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July 23, 2025
Okay, hear me out, this series is hilarious, emotional, and extremely well thought out. It’s also deviant, sarcastic, meta, and truly weird. I really really loved it.
“Sex Criminals” follows a couple who figure out that they can stop time when they orgasm, and decide to use this ability to rob banks. The adventure that follows is a wild time full of surprisingly thoughtful reflection on sexual awakenings, relationships, love, purpose, childhood trauma, and ultimately finding meaning. And tbh, I love finding that in a comic series with dildos on every other page.
“Sex Criminals” follows a couple who figure out that they can stop time when they orgasm, and decide to use this ability to rob banks. The adventure that follows is a wild time full of surprisingly thoughtful reflection on sexual awakenings, relationships, love, purpose, childhood trauma, and ultimately finding meaning. And tbh, I love finding that in a comic series with dildos on every other page.
July 16, 2025
Come for the salacious full-frontal audacity of a couple who stop time with their orgasms and use that to rob banks, stay for the meticulous visual jokes on every page and the amazing ear for dialogue and pacing in the writing, and cry at the end when they teach you something about love. Perfect work.
June 23, 2025
My only issue is that way too many characters had bangs, it’s just got that realistic for that many women to get bangs!
Seriously though this was a fun read. I enjoyed it. It is graphic though so definitely not for the modest.
Seriously though this was a fun read. I enjoyed it. It is graphic though so definitely not for the modest.
July 18, 2024
Just a darned hoot albeit with a rushed and somewhat unsatisfying ending.
June 12, 2025
I can’t explain how amazingly written and executed this comic is. It’s not just about sex, it’s about the human experience. Time and how it changes us. Honestly one of my favorites
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