Frank Miller

Biography

Frank Miller grew with Montpellier, in the Vermont. It began its career in the cartoon as draftsman in editors of foreground like Gold Key, cd. Comics or Marvel Comics. It is a history in two parts published in the magazine of Marvel Spectacular Spider-Man which drew the attention to him. It was soon named draftsman of Daredevil , series of which it was not long in becoming also the scenario writer. The passage of Miller on Daredevil was greeted by the public and the critic. It created the character of Elektra and set up of many elements in the universe of the man without fear which one can find, inter alia, in the film of 2003. The Miller time of " Daredevil" the time of 42 episodes lasted which redefined radically not only the character but the whole of the Comics production of the years 1980. Height being reached by the cycle " Renaissance" ( Born Again ) written by Miller and drawn by David Mazzucchelli in 1985.

To date, the most known work and most completed of Frank Miller is Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , a glaucous history of Batman located in a near future. It puts at it in scene Batman violate and extremist and puts at evil the myth of the dispenser of justice detective. Miller carried out one following this work, DK2.

In addition to working on the characters of the large companies of comics, Miller created her own series: series of science fiction Ronin , Martha Washington with Dave Gibbons and Big Guy And Rusty The Servant boy Robot and Hardware Boiled with Geoff Darrow, series of the universe Romance black of Sin City or the historical series 300 .

Frank Miller also wrote some scenarios for the cinema, in particular those of Robocop 2 and 3 . It Co-carried out with Robert Rodríguez the adaptation big screen of Sin City in 2005. It currently prepares Sin City 2 for the cinema.

In 2005, it launches under the new label All-Star of cd., the series All-Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder , drawn by Jim Lee, putting in scene the formation of Robin by Batman. Although located apart from the official continuity of the character, it is integrated according to its clean dires within the framework of the adventures of Batman which he wrote, in following Batman: Year a , an arc of the series Batman (#404-407, 1987) illustrated by David Mazzucchelli treating beginnings of Batman.

The art of Frank Miller

The shock is often explained that the work of Frank Miller represented on Daredevil by the maturity of the scenario. It is true that with Miller, Daredevil changed universe. Its history with Noire widow, who was one of the culminating points of her adventures in the Seventies did not finish any more stretching herself, and the arrival of new characters was from this point of view a true breath of fresh air.

But graphic qualities of Miller also will have a considerable importance in this success. Very quickly, the feature loses the heaviness of about all the comics of the time. Framing and the setting in scene of the bodies are in rupture in way more outstanding still. This graphic revival is partly the effect of the influence that the manga exerted on Miller. The cutting, which confers on the movements an unknown legibility, or the visual angles is marked by this heritage of the manga. In an obvious way, the introduction of a great number of elements japonisants (the sect ninja " Main" , the Saï S of Electra, etc) watch attachment that Miller tests for the Japanese culture. The series Kozure okami of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima particularly marked Miller, whose Ronin can be considering partly like a homage. It will strongly contribute to its publication in the United States under the name of Lone Wolf & Cub (it drew besides the covers of the American edition, included in the French edition).

The series Sin City proves in a bright way graphic quality of the work of Miller. Entirely realized in black and white (except for the occasional use of the yellow, blue and the red, each one in a different volume), Sin City east of an extraordinary formal ambition. The series is rewarded by 4 Will Eisner Award and Frank Miller receives for the first, in 1993, the price of the " Better inking draftsman/for a publication in black and blanc" , like that of the " Better scenario writer/dessinateur".

Political standpoint

Frank Miller forever made mystery of its fascination for the firearms and its obsession of violence and safety. Many American readers saw in 300 a racist work where Persians are represented like the opportunist ones without civilization, stripped of direction of the honor and talent. The film caused same the polémiques.
March 9th, 2006, Frank Miller announced her support for the policy followed by the Néo-conservatives on American radio NPR (National Radio operator Public). One will be able to listen to it on the site néo-conservative Little Green Football or to find his retranscription on The Atlasphere . On the question of the second Iraqi war, one will thus intend it to declare: Most of the time I intend people to ask: " Why did we attack Iraq? " , for example. Well, we take an idea. Nobody asks why, after Pearl Harbor, we attacked the Nazi Germany. It was because we were confronted with a form of total Fascism: we make the same thing today . From its point of view, America misses firmness vis-a-vis an enemy whom it does not name: It seems obvious to me that our country and everyone Western are in conflict with an enemy who knows perfectly what it wants - and we behave as an empire which crumbles. The powerful cultures are almost never conquered, they exhaust interior. And frankly I think that many American behave like spoiled children (...)

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