{"id":15677,"date":"2015-02-25T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T23:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=15677"},"modified":"2015-02-26T09:16:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T17:16:48","slug":"matt-fraction-and-kelly-sue-deconnick-comic-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/matt-fraction-and-kelly-sue-deconnick-comic-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Writing Duo Takes Their Stories to the Small Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/matt-fraction-and-kelly-sue-deconnick1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/matt-fraction-and-kelly-sue-deconnick1.jpg\" alt=\"matt fraction and kelly sue deconnick\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15705\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2014\/12\/29\/2014-in-review-comics\/\" target=\"_blank\">fans of comic writing couple Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick<\/a> around here. Which is why we&#8217;re so excited that they&#8217;re going to be taking their comics to television!<\/p>\n<p>They are a powerhouse duo at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?company=Marvel&#038;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marvel<\/strong><\/a>, writing runs for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?searchfield=hawkeye&#038;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Hawkeye<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Avengers&#038;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Avengers Assemble<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, and <em><strong>Captain Marvel<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While we doubt that their work at Marvel will make it to television (due to adaptation rights most likely), they also write independent comics which are equally as awesome and <em>will<\/em> be making it to the small screen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sex-criminals-05.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 15px 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sex-criminals-05-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"sex criminals\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sex-criminals-05-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sex-criminals-05.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> They have a two-year contract with Universal TV and one of their first projects is adapting Fraction&#8217;s comic <em>Sex Criminals<\/em>, which won both Eisner and Harvey Awards. It was also named best comic of the year in 2013 by <em>Time<\/em> magazine. The comic is about a female librarian and male actor who discover they can freeze time when they orgasm. Of course they put this power to good use &#8211; like robbing banks.<\/p>\n<p>Other original comics by Fraction and DeConnick that we could see being adapted include <em>Pretty Deadly<\/em> (DeConnick), <em>ODY-C<\/em> (Fraction), <em>Bitch Planet<\/em> (DeConnick), and <em>Satellite Sam<\/em> (Fraction).<\/p>\n<p>The duo&#8217;s production company, Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, could also be used as a launchpad for other comic creators\u2019 IP or non-comic related original content for TV.<\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t be more excited. <em>Sex Criminals<\/em> is a great comic and Fraction and DeConnick have proved themselves as some of the best, funniest, most original and approachable comic writers out there. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested to see what their level of involvement will be. I imagine a great deal, which is promising. I honestly can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this news? What series would you like to see adapted and are you excited for <em>Sex Criminals<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that we&#8217;re fans of comic writing couple Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick around here. Which is why we&#8217;re so excited that they&#8217;re going to be taking their comics to television! They are a powerhouse duo at Marvel, writing runs for Hawkeye, Avengers Assemble, and Captain Marvel. While we doubt that their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126,11,109],"tags":[2178,3145,112,2175,1590,2176,2180,2177,2179,1592],"yst_prominent_words":[17528,6720,5968,17527,17525,9169,17524,17523,6073,6383,10682,6116,17526,17522,8121,5825,8079,9000,12121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15706,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15677\/revisions\/15706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15677"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}