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
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Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.
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'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.
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The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have done that - and I know that, because I have a Superman story I want to tell someday. In this story, Batman was the hero, so the world was built around him.
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The operational word is relax. Allow your body or your mind to settle down.
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Emotionally, it's really raw. Imagine the powerful rage when someone crosses the passion between a man and a woman or a man and his city.
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Five would take care of all the graphic novels ? but there's new material that I'm writing for the second one.
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We are very happy that they reached an agreement. Obviously, we were concerned about the outcome of the negotiations.
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The world, she do spin mad. These are wild times.
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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.
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I have been there at night working and people have come by wanting to help. As far as anybody being out of line down there, I haven't seen it.
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It spans generations. We have parents and children who play, high school students. It's a good, wholesome atmosphere.
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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?
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Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.
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In Russian literature, Moscow is a calm city - but St. Petersburg is the place where all the bad things happen.