Below is a link to an interview I did just before the holiday with one of my favorite bloggers, Ian Brill over at Publisher's Weekly: Fraction's Casanova Offers Cheap Thrills:

Matt Fraction has been both a comics pundit and a creator. He has worked in that area between corporate superhero comics and independent books, including quirky genre stories such as the crime caper Last of the Independents and the spy/monkey story The Annotated Mantooth. Now he will be writing his first ongoing monthly series, Casanova, due from Image Comics in May, with art by Gabriel Ba (Rock and Roll). Casanova follows in the format of Warren Ellis's Fell: fewer pages than the average superhero comic but more story content, to make a satisfying monthly reading experience

To get the obvious out of the way: What is the book about?
The shortest, write-it-on-the-back-of-a-business-card pitch for Casanova is "the world's greatest thief gets blackmailed into being a pawn and double agent in a global game of super-espionage." There are more keywords and PowerPoint topics, like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Diabolik, Jim Steranko, Jerry Cornelius, Nick Fury and Our Man Flint.

Then I do a little interpretive dance.

(more in link)