home biography comics movies contributions Design language quotes My work References home biography comics movies contributions Design language quotes My work References biography Frank Miller is an Irish American comic book writer, artist and film director. He was born in Olney, Maryland on January 27, 1957. Miller was the fifth child out of seven to his mother a nurse and his father an electrician. He grew up in Montpelier, Vermont where he first discovered the comic book culture. He immensely enjoyed movies, thriller books and Eastern art and literature, all major influences in his future work. He moved to New York when he was nineteen and within a week got a job as a comic book artist. The beginning of his career involved sporadic work. His first work was as an artist for The Twilight Zone for Gold Key Comics, which presented Miller with other job opportunities. He was offered several jobs with DC Comics and Marvel Comics. With Marvel, he became a regular fill-in and cover artist. At the time, character Daredevil was a poorly selling title. Miller asks to work on Daredevil and becomes the penciller for the character. He worked alongside writer Roger McKenzie on Daredevil throughout the 1980’s. Through Miller, Daredevil became so successful it was upgraded from a bi-monthly comic to a monthly. Eventually he took over full duty as writer and artist. During this time he created the character Elektra. He kills off Elektra, intending her to stay dead but eventually reviving her in his comic Elektra Lives Again. After Daredevil became one of Marvel’s best selling characters, Miller moves on to work on the miniseries Wolverine with Chris Claremont. Then he created the series Ronin, a great showcase of his evolving style in storytelling and art. One of Miller’s most influential works was his Batman miniseries The Dark Knight Returns. Overtime DKR would become one of the biggest selling trade paperbacks. It also showcases Millers great talent in revision of character, making Batman a dark more foreboding character than his previous 60’s version. Miller goes back to work on more drawings for Daredevil. In 1987 he writes Batman: Year One. He then leaves DC Comics to work for Dark Horse Comics. On the side he writes and draws Elektra’s rebirth for Epic Comics in “Elektra Lives Again.” This is the first time he uses his iconic style later seen in his Sin City stories. Frank Miller equally skilled as a writer and drawer, also became involved in script writing for movies. His first scripts were for RoboCop2 and RoboCop3. In 1991 he began work on Sin City for Dark Horse Comics. Sin City became of the most read titles. In 1998 Miller released his miniseries, 300. Since the 90’s he has been involved in movie adaptations of comics. In 2005, the comics of Sin City became adapted into a film. As an actor, author, director, producer and screenwriter of Sin City, Miller was extremely successful in portraying the grim, film noire-like world. As executive producer and book author, he also does a film version of his comic 300 in 2007. In 2008 he directed the comic movie adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. In 2014 he produced the sequel to 300, 300: Rise of an Empire. Right now he is working on the sequel to Sin City which will come out later in 2014- Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Frank Miller has received numerous Harvey and Eisner awards, which is the highest honour in the comic field. home biography comics movies contributions Design language quotes My work References comics Frank Miller is skilled in both drawing and writing comics. Much of his work was in the 80’s and 90’s. He wrote and drew several ex- tended stories and comic series in- cluding Sin City (The Big Fat Kill, The Babe Word Red, That Yellow Bastard, Silent Night, Just Another Saturday Night, Hell and Back, Family Values, A Dame to Kill For, Booze Broads and Bullets), 300, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, DK2: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Elektra Lives Again and Ronin. daredevil Sin city elektra 300 ronin batman He is known for his grim and gritty comics. His work has influ- enced the comic field. He is known for his revision of heroes such as Batman and Daredevil. He also creat- ed iconic characters like Ronin and Elektra. His distinctive style is most evident in his 1990’s comic, Sin City. More recently Miller has been involved in the adaptations of his comics into motion pictures. home biography comics movies contributions Design language quotes My work References movies Miller’s first script writing for film began with RoboCop 2 in 1990 and RoboCop 3 in 1991. Although the movies were received poorly, he sold his original movie script to be made into a graphic novel, Frank Miller’s RoboCop. Perhaps one of Miller’s greatest film work was his 2005 movie adaptation of Sin City. Miller was not only the co-director of this movie, he was the producer, screenwriter, book author and also made an appearance as an actor. Miller’s next big cinematic impression came with the movie 300 in 2007. It was based on his comic 300 and he was the executive producer. Recently Miller has been continuing his robocop 2, 3 Sin city 300 successful run of comic movie adaptations. This year he released 300: Rise of an Empire. It was the sequel to the first 300. Later this year the sequel to Sin City will come out in theatres- Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. 300: Rise of an empire Sin city: a dame to kill for home biography comics movies contributions Design language quotes My work References contributions As a talented writer and artist, Frank Miller collaborated on many works. He worked on stories with artists as a writer and also with writers as an artist. As a writer, he is best known for his work with artist David Mazzucchelli, whom he worked on Batman: Year One. Batman: Year One was released in 1987 during a time when DC was trying to streamline and modernize several of its super heroes. The comic featured Bruce Wayne embracing his will to save Gotham but just discovering the way. The comic also pays a good amount atten- tion to Lt. James Gorden who also experiences his first troubled year in Gotham. He also wrote Martha Washington alongside Dave Gibbon’s art. The series was released in 1990 and was about a 21st century freedom fighter who shares the name of a First Lady. This writing style was humorous and satirical, not what people usually associate with Miller’s style of work. Other comics he only wrote include Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, Elektra Assassin: The Last Years, Frank Miller Robocop and All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder. He also did solely the drawing for some comics. Notably he did the art- work in the 1982 release of Wolverine with writer Chris Claremont. Wolverine was originally a part of X-Men. Miller worked on the first book where Wolverine is solo. This mini series takes place in Japan. In it Wolverine is a failed samurai and deals with his rivalry with Shingen. Other comics he only drew include Daredevil, Marvel Two in One, Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider Man, The Avengers, and Amazing Spiderman. He contributed pages and did the covers for many comics. Some of his page contributions include The Spirit, Superman, Star Wars, Heroes, Mad Mag- azine, Spawn, The American and Fantastic Four. He did the covers for comics: Amazing Spiderman, The Avengers, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Lone Wolf and Cub, GI Joe, Wonder Woman, X-Men and Star Trek. He worked on a large range of comics, clearly revered for his signature style as an artist. home biography comics movies contributions Design language quotes My work References Design language Frank Miller is best identified for specific trademarks through his artistic style and charac- ters. The major influences in his drawing and writing include film noire, eastern art and story- telling and conservative politics. Growing up Miller read a lot of thriller novels and watched a lot of movies. His influ- ence by film noire can be seen greatly in his comics. The grim elements and focuses on light and shadows are key to Miller’s style. This is seen Film noire the lone wolf ayn rand especially in Sin City, Batman and Daredevil. See how Frank’s Millers influences (Film Noire, The Lone Wolf and Film noire also shows up in Miller’s version of storytelling. He is influenced by noire writers Ayn Rand) affect his trademarks in characterisation and artisitic style. such as Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. His greatest film noire influence is the work of Will Eisner. Ayn Rand’s novel “The Romantic Man- ifesto”also effects Miller. Many of the ideas in Rand’s work are evident in Miller’s themes. He is also known to be somewhat conservative politi- cally, like Rand. Goseki Kojima & Kazuo Koike’s comic “The Lone Wolf and Cub” also influence Miller’s work. He uses a similar pacing in his storytell- ing. The eastern culture, including samurai’s and ninjas show up in his work. His comic Ronin is most similar to The Lone Wolf. characters Artistic style home biography comics movies contributions Design language quotes My work References qu ot es “You can’t have virtue without sin. What I’m after is having my characters’ virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment.