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Acclaimed Bestselling Comic Series 'Sex Criminals' Gets Adapted for Prime Video


Amazon’s Prime Video has picked up an eight-episode show based on the acclaimed graphic novel series Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick) and Tze Chun (Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai) are co-creators of the series, and Nanjiani is also set for an acting role.

Perhaps best described as Bonnie & Clyde meets The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Sex Criminals follows the heartfelt, yet laugh-out-loud romance of Suzie and Jon. 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…

Upon launch, Sex Criminals sold out and went back to print dozens of times, was translated around the world in a half-dozen different languages, and was banned and praised in equal measure. It went on to become TIME Magazine’s "Comic of the Year" and won prestigious Eisner and Harvey awards for "Best New Series." Sex Criminals dominated the mainstream media's “Best of” lists—including that of TIME and Entertainment Weekly, Fraction appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote the series, and the title has since maintained a top ranking amongst regularly reordered titles and remains one of the most popular and buzzy comic book series of all time.

The Sex Criminals series is available in multiple physical formats including trade paperback, hardcover, and Compendium editions at  comic book shops, independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Indigo:
  • Sex Criminals: The Complete Edition - ISBN 9781534397484, Lunar Code 0124IM225
  • Sex Criminals Vol. 1 trade paperback - ISBN 9781607069461, Lunar Code 0114IM155
  • Sex Criminals Vol. 2 trade paperback - ISBN 9781632151933, Lunar Code 0215IM157
  • Sex Criminals Vol. 3 trade paperback - ISBN 9781632155429, Lunar Code 0616IM177
  • Sex Criminals Vol. 4 trade paperback - ISBN 9781534302310, Lunar Code 0917IM205
  • Sex Criminals Vol. 5 trade paperback - ISBN 9781534306837, Lunar Code 0618IM175
  • Sex Criminals Vol. 6 trade paperback - ISBN 9781534310629, Lunar Code 1120IM099
  • Big Hard Sex Criminals Book One deluxe hardcover - ISBN 9781632152435, Lunar Code 1114IM168
  • Big Hard Sex Criminals Book Two deluxe hardcover - ISBN 9781534307063, Lunar Code 1117IM192
  • Big Hard Sex Criminals Book Three deluxe hardcover - ISBN 9781534319097, Lunar Code 0725IM997
Sex Criminals is also available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
 
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












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