Fraction

February 8, 2002

Matt Fraction started his new column at Comic Book Resources today. If you don’t know who Matt Fraction is, that’s totally OK, because right now, not many people do. Poplife is his weekly work journal, a peek into the mind of someone crazy enough to try and break into the comic book industry. I normally wouldn’t pimp something as distasteful as a comic book column, but Fraction is an immense talent worth looking into. Besides, the column bounces about all sorts of topics, from his impending wedding to his life as a world traveler and gives a little something for everyone.

They’ve been hiding him away in Kansas City, but they couldn’t really hold him back. He’s got stuff published and his company (the ridiculously brilliant MK12) gets work from both coasts. One of MK12′s animated shorts won some awards, got on Sci-Fi and Fraction did EVERY SINGLE VOICE for that piece of madness. It’s almost unfair how small slivers of genius keep falling out of his head. An excerpt from his first column:

In LA, I was so full of contempt and cynicism that I made sure in every meeting I took (with another cat from my company MK12) I looked as if I’d just come from sleeping under a pier. As a result people treated me very well. They were all dressed to impress; I looked like I needed spare change and some tough love. Best I could figure was if I looked like shit, then I must not CARE how I look and therefore must be SOMEONE (Bellboy in elevator: “So, are you a director or a producer?”). And client meetings were great to take, too, because we were treated like eccentric boy wonders. “Funky,” as one middle aged producer-type described us as. Whatever. It was fun.

If you listen to me on my more bitter days, every now and then you might catch me muttering under my breath about how much I hate Fraction. I mean that in the best possible way.

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