In 2009 the first three trades were also repackaged in a 432 page "Deluxe Edition" hardcover (ISBN 9780785142294). Included in this edition are a number of extras, including three of the original backpages "essays" with all 13 original accompanying pieces of art, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

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 short story No One Rides For Free, the original Coward "trailer" announcing the series, and a covers gallery, and a number of pages describing the "process" of making the book.

Reception

The series has been generally well received in the media. In 2007 it won the Eisner Award

Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

 for Best New Series.

External links

• Ed Brubaker's web site
• A Criminal Blog
• Criminal - An Appreciation, Comic Book Resources
  Comic Book Resources
  Comic Book Resources, also known as CBR is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.-History:Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1996 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland had created to discuss DC...
  
  , March 20, 2007

Interviews

• Breaking the Law(less): Brubaker Talks "Criminal", Comic Book Resources
  Comic Book Resources
  Comic Book Resources, also known as CBR is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.-History:Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1996 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland had created to discuss DC...
  
  , May 8, 2007
• August 2006 interview with Sean Philips about Criminal

Reviews

• Review of Criminal: Coward and Lawless, Comics Bulletin
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• Review of Criminal (vol. 2) #5 and #6, Comics Bulletin
  Comics Bulletin
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