{"product_id":"sex-criminals-the-complete-edition-paperback","title":"Sex Criminals: The Complete Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatt Fraction\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChip Zdarsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll 31 award-winning, headline-grabbing, head-spinning, genre-defying issues of SEX CRIMINALS collected in one soft unthreatening volume celebrating its tenth-ish anniversary.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBonnie \u0026amp; Clyde\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe 40-Year-Old Virgin\u003c\/i\u003e by way of \u003ci\u003eWhen Harry Met Sally\u003c\/i\u003e--only none of these orgasms are fake! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Suzie and Jon have sex, time stops. Literally. So they have lots of sex, fall in love, and eventually start robbing banks. Until they find out they're not alone... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Collects \u003ci\u003eSex Criminals\u003c\/i\u003e issues # 1- #30 \u0026amp; the one-shot special issue #69. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Select praise \u0026amp; accolades for the \u003ci\u003eSex Criminals\u003c\/i\u003e series: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Eisner Award winning Best New Series *\u003cbr\u003e * Harvey Award winning Best New Series *\u003cbr\u003e * #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller *\u003cbr\u003e * #1 Amazon Bestseller: Literary Graphic Novels *\u003cbr\u003e *\u003ci\u003e Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Must List *\u003cbr\u003e * \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller * \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Fraction's best work yet. It's a precision-tuned screwball comedy on its surface, and that surface is gorgeous, thanks to Zdarsky's ace sense of design and inventive color technique.\" --\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An honest, heartfelt story about relationships that was more John Hughes than John Holmes.\" --\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Sex comedies usually focus on the pursuit of orgasm; the writer Matt Fraction and the artist Chip Zdarsky have devised an ingenious one about the stillness that follows it. Zdarsky's fluid, brightly hued artwork is dense with smutty gags, but this is a deeper, more understated comedy than it initially seems.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Wildly imaginative, randy and true with characters whose sexual satisfaction freezes time and facilitates crime. Artist Zdarsky's staging, storytelling and character designs make this even crazier. Great fun!\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A sex comedy with a splash of crime thriller, the title is a fascinating examination of the pleasures and pitfalls of intimate relationships, using the central fantastic conceit as a metaphor for the way sex distances people but also, under the right circumstances, brings them together.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I wouldn't trust most comic creators to turn a sexual awakening into compelling pulp fiction, but Fraction and Zdarsky pull it off masterfully.\" --\u003ci\u003ePASTE\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSex Criminals\u003c\/i\u003e is just amazing. If this isn't on your pull list you have to get it.\" --\u003ci\u003eio9\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSex Criminals\u003c\/i\u003e is not just one of the best comics I've ever read, it's one of the best things I've ever read, period.\" --Wil Wheaton, actor \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The best debut of 2013\" --\u003ci\u003eRollingStone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Fraction writes comic books out in the woods and lives with his wife, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, his two children, two dogs, a cat, a bearded dragon, and a yard full of coyotes and crows. Surely there's a metaphor there. He's a New York Times-best-selling donkus of comics like Sex Criminals (winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best New Series and named TIME Magazine's Best Comic of 2013), ODY-C, and Casanova. Under their company Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, Inc., Fraction and DeConnick are currently developing television for NBC\/Universal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChip Zdarsky is the current writer of \u003ci\u003eBatman\u003c\/i\u003e for DC Comics (somehow). For Image Comics he's the writer of \u003ci\u003eNewburn\u003c\/i\u003e and the writer\/illustrator of the award-winning \u003ci\u003ePublic Domain\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis previous work includes an acclaimed run on \u003ci\u003eDaredevil \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSpider-Man: Life Story\u003c\/i\u003e for Marvel, and he's the illustrator of Image Comics' \u003ci\u003eSex Criminals--\u003c\/i\u003ean Eisner Award winning series and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller (despite all the penis jokes).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 824\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 10.16 x 6.61 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753012724000,"sku":"9781534327412","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f01c155aeb69130342aaa70b67b74e23.webp?v=1780010049","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sex-criminals-the-complete-edition-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}