Sex Criminals: The Complete Edition
Chip Zdarsky
(Illustrator)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
All 31 award-winning, headline-grabbing, head-spinning, genre-defying issues of SEX CRIMINALS collected in one soft unthreatening volume celebrating its tenth-ish anniversary.
Bonnie & Clyde meets The 40-Year-Old Virgin by way of When Harry Met Sally—only none of these orgasms are fake!
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…
Collects Sex Criminals issues # 1- #30 & the one-shot special issue #69.
Select praise & accolades for the Sex Criminals series:
* Eisner Award winning Best New Series *
* Harvey Award winning Best New Series *
* #1 New York Times Bestseller *
* #1 Amazon Bestseller: Literary Graphic Novels *
* Entertainment Weekly’s Must List *
* Publishers Weekly Bestseller *
“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.” —TIME
“An honest, heartfelt story about relationships that was more John Hughes than John Holmes.” —USA Today
“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.” —The New York Times
“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!” —The Miami Herald
“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.” —The A.V. Club
“I wouldn’t trust most comic creators to turn a sexual awakening into compelling pulp fiction, but Fraction and Zdarsky pull it off masterfully.” —PASTE
“Sex Criminals is just amazing. If this isn't on your pull list you have to get it.” —io9
“Sex Criminals 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
“The best debut of 2013” —RollingStone
Bonnie & Clyde meets The 40-Year-Old Virgin by way of When Harry Met Sally—only none of these orgasms are fake!
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…
Collects Sex Criminals issues # 1- #30 & the one-shot special issue #69.
Select praise & accolades for the Sex Criminals series:
* Eisner Award winning Best New Series *
* Harvey Award winning Best New Series *
* #1 New York Times Bestseller *
* #1 Amazon Bestseller: Literary Graphic Novels *
* Entertainment Weekly’s Must List *
* Publishers Weekly Bestseller *
“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.” —TIME
“An honest, heartfelt story about relationships that was more John Hughes than John Holmes.” —USA Today
“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.” —The New York Times
“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!” —The Miami Herald
“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.” —The A.V. Club
“I wouldn’t trust most comic creators to turn a sexual awakening into compelling pulp fiction, but Fraction and Zdarsky pull it off masterfully.” —PASTE
“Sex Criminals is just amazing. If this isn't on your pull list you have to get it.” —io9
“Sex Criminals 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
“The best debut of 2013” —RollingStone
Product Details
| Publisher | Image Comics |
| Publish Date | March 26, 2024 |
| Pages | 824 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781534397484 |
| Dimensions | 258.8 X 168.3 X 52.3 mm | 975.7 g |
About the Author
Matt 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.
Chip Zdarsky is the current writer of Batman for DC Comics (somehow). For Image Comics he’s the writer of Newburn and the writer/illustrator of the award-winning Public Domain.
His previous work includes an acclaimed run on Daredevil and Spider-Man: Life Story for Marvel, and he’s the illustrator of Image Comics’ Sex Criminals—an Eisner Award winning series and New York Times Bestseller (despite all the penis jokes).
His previous work includes an acclaimed run on Daredevil and Spider-Man: Life Story for Marvel, and he’s the illustrator of Image Comics’ Sex Criminals—an Eisner Award winning series and New York Times Bestseller (despite all the penis jokes).
Reviews
- “I wouldn’t trust most comic creators to turn a sexual awakening into compelling pulp fiction, but Fraction and Zdarsky pull it off masterfully.” –Paste Magazine
"On the surface, this is a hilarious story of two people, Suzanne and Jon, with the power to stop time after they orgasm, and then rob banks while (almost) everyone else is frozen in time, which is an amazingly original idea. But underneath that, this is a story of the beginning of a relationship: its exciting newness, its terrifying possibilities, its ups and downs, its secrets and understandings, and, of course, its sex." - Publishers Weekly
"On the surface, this is a hilarious story of two people, Suzanne and Jon, with the power to stop time after they orgasm, and then rob banks while (almost) everyone else is frozen in time, which is an amazingly original idea. But underneath that, this is a story of the beginning of a relationship: its exciting newness, its terrifying possibilities, its ups and downs, its secrets and understandings, and, of course, its sex." - Publishers Weekly
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