Frank Miller
Frank Miller
Graphic novel artist whose best known works include Ronin, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth27 January 1957
CityOlney, MD
CountryUnited States of America
spin wild
The world, she do spin mad. These are wild times.
comic crime excellent favorite grew mickey raymond reading
I've always wanted to do crime stories. That's my favorite thing to read, ... I grew up reading Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. I always thought they would make excellent comic books.
care five graphic material novels second
Five would take care of all the graphic novels ? but there's new material that I'm writing for the second one.
allowing art education emphasis practice single teachers teaching whether
There's a lot of controversy about whether we should put so much emphasis on a single set of tests. Are we allowing teachers to practice the art of education or are we teaching to the test?
bad calm city moscow russian
In Russian literature, Moscow is a calm city - but St. Petersburg is the place where all the bad things happen.
writing home lions
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.
jobs book writing
I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.
real book character
When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.
real character home
It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.
eye boys thinking
Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."
people complaining attention
I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.
running book library
I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.
book mean people
Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.
cartoon modern holy
It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.