Hi there. I’m a writer. I write comic books mostly. I write a book called CASANOVA. It’s kind of a superspy/science fiction thing. Kind of. I write SATELLITE SAM. That’s about sex, death, and live television. I write SEX CRIMINALS. it’s about sex and crime. And the impermanence of the spacetime continuum. I’m writing FANTASTIC FOUR and its sister book FF at the moment for Marvel Comics. I also write a book called HAWKEYE, but I tend to call it HAWKGUY, because that’s what my kid calls it and it makes me laugh. I live in Portland. No, the other one.Tumblr (3.0; @mattfractionblog)http://mattfraction.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/82213ed6bf96402aaf77ec5253db3457/tumblr_mncfobdNdJ1rk5n91o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>don’t you dare kink-shame superman’s pal jimmy olsen</p>http://mattfraction.com/post/51287879843http://mattfraction.com/post/51287879843Sat, 25 May 2013 00:33:47 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6ca2fa3636cfe72ec201481a8a7ca897/tumblr_mnc7m2rf9e1qhb9cho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mingdoyle.tumblr.com/post/51280114489/jem-me-and-lieutenant-freddie-mercury-if" target="_blank">mingdoyle</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Jem, me, and Lieutenant Freddie Mercury if Starfleet!!</p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51283621224http://mattfraction.com/post/51283621224Fri, 24 May 2013 22:45:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/11fce5890a795c2744aad7e4b78b7255/tumblr_mmian49UeI1r8xssuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://worldofmythology.tumblr.com/post/49975480153/icelandic-magical-staves-source" target="_blank">worldofmythology</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><span>“Icelandic magical staves”</span></em></p> <p><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/201254677069641325/" target="_blank">(Source)</a></p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51253746670http://mattfraction.com/post/51253746670Fri, 24 May 2013 15:11:35 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e156dd7a8d0701e42f648459386735b5/tumblr_mmhl943LQg1r84v2no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://architectureofdoom.tumblr.com/post/49957639820/whoweretheqajars-historical-bazaar-in-arak" target="_blank">architectureofdoom</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://whoweretheqajars.tumblr.com/post/49938153495/historical-bazaar-in-arak-city-iran-modern-arak" target="_blank">whoweretheqajars</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Historical Bazaar in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak,_Iran" target="_blank">Arak City</a>, Iran. Modern Arak is built around the same location of a village called Daskerah, which was destroyed during the Mongol Invasion in the 13th century. The city<span> was reestablished ten years after the rise of the Qajars in 1795. Most of the foundational construction work was completed by 1852. </span></p> <p>Photographer: Sohrab Niazi</p> <p>Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/Farrah_Joon" target="_blank">Farrah joon</a> for this great find!!  </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://maps.google.nl/maps/ms?msid=217448598159407091482.0004db711524ddb43d3f9&msa=0&ll=34.091109,49.69201&spn=0.003687,0.004823" target="_blank">View this on the map</a></p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51250267937http://mattfraction.com/post/51250267937Fri, 24 May 2013 14:22:25 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/104e45452def3ffe3e8ea227da887d3f/tumblr_mmhzdlEt7X1qz6f9yo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9a98a7bd20f108632ce736281cefb078/tumblr_mmhzdlEt7X1qz6f9yo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f7de5d386c4fccf9405a31c4fd78f0a0/tumblr_mmhzdlEt7X1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/49956470802/houses-of-the-holy" target="_blank">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/antoni-gaudi-clement-celma-sagrada-familia" target="_blank">Houses of the Holy</a></p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51246817687http://mattfraction.com/post/51246817687Fri, 24 May 2013 13:33:25 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/709a135c345b5b9d3ce9cbeb900693c1/tumblr_mmfj43FHDY1qd7f7io1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/50d9b2a0c230030fd865513e6a037be5/tumblr_mmfj43FHDY1qd7f7io2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://mattfraction.com/post/51243426931http://mattfraction.com/post/51243426931Fri, 24 May 2013 12:44:19 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/84ebbaf5978efa9bca7ba75c50b269b7/tumblr_mmhpxlPWAI1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0ccf5742b9436946efcda9a9c70dcc89/tumblr_mmhpxlPWAI1qz6f9yo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/49943394426/r-i-p-dan-adkins" target="_blank">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>R.I.P. <a href="http://wallywoodart.blogspot.com/2013/05/rip-dan-adkins.html" target="_blank">Dan Adkins</a></p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51240275652http://mattfraction.com/post/51240275652Fri, 24 May 2013 11:55:18 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5639377bf1bdb973e7ee8d9ca6e2839b/tumblr_mmhpt13zwr1qes700o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://skottieyoung.com/post/49943250545/horton-hears-a-who" target="_blank">skottieyoung</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Horton Hears a Who</p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51237396946http://mattfraction.com/post/51237396946Fri, 24 May 2013 11:06:03 -0700“<p>When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to death and blew his head off with a shotgun. Someone asked John Cheever, “What’d you learn from Hemingway?” and he said “I learned not to blow my head off with a shotgun.” I remember going to the Michigan poetry festival, meeting Etheridge Knight there and Robert Creeley. Creeley was so drunk—he was reading and he only had one eye, of course, and had to hold his book like two inches from his face using his one good eye. But you look at somebody like George Saunders—I think he’s the best short story writer in English alive—that’s somebody who tries very hard to live a sane, alert life.</p> <p>You’re present when you’re not drinking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s every day. It’s probably better for your writing career, you know? I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><p>In an <a href="http://www.thefix.com/content/mary-karr-liars-sober91684?page=all" target="_blank">interview with <em>The Fix</em></a>, <strong>Mary Karr</strong> debunks the toxic mythology that it is necessary to be damaged in order to be creative. My own vehement defiance to that mythology is what led me to choose Ray Bradbury – the ultimate <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/18/commencement-speeches-2/#bradbury" target="_blank">epitome of creating from joy rather than suffering</a> – as the subject of my contribution to <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/30/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-2012.html?view=Lessons_for_the_Living_From_the_Departed" target="_blank">The New York Times’ The Lives They Lived</a></em>.</p> <p>Pair with Karr on <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/31/why-we-write-mary-karr/" target="_blank">why writers write</a>.</p> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://exp.lore.com/" target="_blank">explore-blog</a>)</p></em>http://mattfraction.com/post/51235498226http://mattfraction.com/post/51235498226Fri, 24 May 2013 10:32:31 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dac284cd52493b4bf2c60c6199890c35/tumblr_mmgwlnWKvj1rk5n91o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>viva la mouthbees</p>http://mattfraction.com/post/51234630244http://mattfraction.com/post/51234630244Fri, 24 May 2013 10:17:08 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b21187063cf904eb2321c44dda51908f/tumblr_mmgwl85Zuc1rk5n91o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>GPOY</p>http://mattfraction.com/post/51231894304http://mattfraction.com/post/51231894304Fri, 24 May 2013 09:27:43 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a0696990049c2d96d6c1b7164df79752/tumblr_mnad28QgNn1r9h4cho1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fac312fafeb96a4de6fcb75c3410b327/tumblr_mnad28QgNn1r9h4cho2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4fcff1fa81af205879593a8446005a03/tumblr_mnad28QgNn1r9h4cho3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ed1bfdb510812a6b2729a8e6e4984b4d/tumblr_mnad28QgNn1r9h4cho4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mc-ballin.tumblr.com/post/51205172444/hawkeyes-arrows-heres-the-result-of-my-project" target="_blank">mc-ballin</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Hawkeye’s Arrows</p> <p>Here’s the result of my project! Because boomerangs.</p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51229451506http://mattfraction.com/post/51229451506Fri, 24 May 2013 08:42:34 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d7669ca5de46fa8207e4a4774101d9c2/tumblr_mmgofvkZyc1r3j9f2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://joequinones.tumblr.com/post/49911252769/movie-night-barbarella" target="_blank">joequinones</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Movie night: BARBARELLA</p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51229247376http://mattfraction.com/post/51229247376Fri, 24 May 2013 08:38:38 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1385836798a5cdad61ac9d83e719e3bf/tumblr_mlavg3uKTY1rur0aro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mattfraction.com/post/51226753695http://mattfraction.com/post/51226753695Fri, 24 May 2013 07:49:36 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/94cb095f886a2e259308f027f6905ca3/tumblr_mhczhhKbhc1rnw80to5_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fcdbca44618169f3f97fb2f897aebe26/tumblr_mhczhhKbhc1rnw80to1_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/65a6783a50034d0c7a0cd3b513f7b25a/tumblr_mhczhhKbhc1rnw80to2_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/be817c804deeff208303b20a1f446da4/tumblr_mhczhhKbhc1rnw80to3_r2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ladysnowblood.tumblr.com/post/51216112303/imalittleredtorvette-i-am-in-love-with-a-72" target="_blank">ladysnowblood</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://imalittleredtorvette.tumblr.com/post/51155682990/i-am-in-love-with-a-72-year-old-man" target="_blank">imalittleredtorvette</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="post_tags_wrapper" id="post_tags_wrapper_51146829390"><span class="tags" id="post_tags_51146829390"> <a class="tag" href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/I-AM-IN-LOVE-WITH-A-72-YEAR-OLD-MAN" target="_blank">#I AM IN LOVE WITH A 72 YEAR OLD MAN</a></span></span></p> </blockquote> <p>Always reblog.</p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51216159949http://mattfraction.com/post/51216159949Fri, 24 May 2013 03:06:37 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bbb64474b739ce62a7fdad513e85ff56/tumblr_mn22f90JEg1spw6tgo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://mattfraction.com/post/51214325451http://mattfraction.com/post/51214325451Fri, 24 May 2013 01:52:53 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b1989c5321858e121f1087513e611247/tumblr_mn2kyeYgDX1qbsbnoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <div><small> Jean-Pierre Léaud and François Truffaut, at Cannes Film Festival, 1959.</small></div> </blockquote> <p></p>http://mattfraction.com/post/51213465685http://mattfraction.com/post/51213465685Fri, 24 May 2013 01:19:17 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6e2f850cf1ce6e0b82749abdf9bc1ec8/tumblr_mn9rty3qUR1rvzbdgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>Creedence Clearwater Revival dining at Taco Bell in 1969</span></p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51208905292http://mattfraction.com/post/51208905292Thu, 23 May 2013 23:00:09 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cpUfImwI87s?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>well, time to close the internet, as it is now perfect.</p> <p><a href="http://kottke.org/13/05/ken-crosgrove-dancing-daft-punk" target="_blank">via</a></p>http://mattfraction.com/post/51183113605http://mattfraction.com/post/51183113605Thu, 23 May 2013 16:33:01 -0700MAD MENDaft Punk<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c39d3197940d843cd580820a1ba97d87/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3979357a3ad49c552d36037bd6af2d3c/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d686bf0f811fbb132848d63646b499bc/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3091fab6cf62a23dc2ecc7d39014d282/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/767e7766192435bba87184b601f89161/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/936963e570fa7121ff2d2b912cc1a4c1/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/866c5d55e43f31e61d0d56861e6f1c3d/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b2495cce28af00f191b19b7bc45bddd/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo9_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4b8052fd0cb3709a429973b9b81cc794/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9454cc9bbb249dd3bff91c05fa8e3fb1/tumblr_mme9leMiI41ru1sfvo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fantagraphics.tumblr.com/post/49912721292/rah-flores-my-favorite-covers-from-love-and" target="_blank">fantagraphics</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://rah-flores.tumblr.com/post/49797003280/my-favorite-covers-from-love-and-rockets-v1-by" target="_blank">rah-flores</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>My favorite covers from Love and Rockets v1 by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez.</p> </blockquote> <p>People have been wanting a whole book of these for years; it’s finally <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/lrcovers" target="_blank">coming soon</a>.</p> </blockquote>http://mattfraction.com/post/51180913342http://mattfraction.com/post/51180913342Thu, 23 May 2013 16:02:04 -0700