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
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.
dark views opposites
The Dark Knight series is all from Batman’s point of view. But if you look at Dark Knight 2, you’ll see a Superman who’s much calmer than the one in the first Dark Knight. Batman and Superman are dead opposites. I love Superman. Do I love Batman more? They’re not people. They’re only lines on paper.
hero dirty blood
My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.
als needs hell
I can tell you squat about Islamism. But I know a lot about Al Quaeda, and they need to burn in hell.
book mean world
In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.
real hero dark
The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.
turns i-realized ifs
I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.
pain bullets sometimes
You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.
sin-city knowing waking
Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.
hero feelings phrases
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.
hero play ugly
What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.
horse thinking church
Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.
rain moving men
This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again ...
book thinking world
In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.