Frank Miller
Frank Miller
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It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential force that knows exactly what it wants ... and we're behaving like a collapsing empire.For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we're up against, and the sixth-century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people's heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters, they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I’m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I'm living in a city where 3000 of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built.Nobody questions why we, after Pearl Harbor, attacked Nazi Germany. It was because we were taking on a form of global fascism, we're doing the same thing now.
Initially, Miller's work was met with positive reception. The Dark Knight Returns was a great critical success and Batman: Year One was met with even greater critical praise for its gritty realism and style. However, in recent years Miller's later work has been met with criticism. Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again met with less positive reviews than its highly acclaimed predecessor. All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder in particular has been met with harsh criticism. William Gatevackes of PopMatters said that "All Star Batman and Robin should be avoided at all costs". Comics journalist Cliff Biggers of Comic Shop News called the series "one of the biggest train wrecks in comics history." Iann Robinson called All Star Batman and Robin "a comic series that just spirals deeper and deeper into the abyss of unreadable", and that, "Miller has erased all the good he did for Batman with The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One". When All Star Batman and Robin was reprinted in the UK by Panini Comics under the Batman Legends banner, there was much criticism for how the anthology comic was marketed to children on the Irish radio talkshow Liveline with a member of the Irish Rape Crisis Centre speaking on-air, criticising the explicit content of the comic book.
Some of Miller's works have been accused of lacking humanity, particularly in regard to the overabundance of prostitutes portrayed in Sin City. When it was released in 2008, Miller's film adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit met with largely negative reviews, earning a metascore of only 30/100 at the review aggregation site Metacritic.com.
His cartoonist influence includes Will Eisner, Jerry Robinson, Dick Sprang, Neal Adams, Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Alex Toth, Frank Frazetta, Joe Kubert, Jordi Bernet, Johnny Craig, Milton Caniff, Wally Wood, Hugo Pratt, Frank Robbins, William Gaines, José Antonio Muñoz and James Kochalka.
Miller has stated that his influence includes the writing of Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.
Outside of the comic and political circuit, his influence includes art historian Kenneth Clark, and the animation by Fleischer Studios.
Frank Miller has appeared in five films in small roles, dying in each.
Frank Miller also appeared in an episode of the television series Moonlighting as a customer at a box office.[citation needed]
Initially, Miller's work was met with positive reception. The Dark Knight Returns was a great critical success and Batman: Year One was met with even greater critical praise for its gritty realism and style. However, in recent years Miller's later work has been met with criticism. Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again met with less positive reviews than its highly acclaimed predecessor. All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder in particular has been met with harsh criticism. William Gatevackes of PopMatters said that "All Star Batman and Robin should be avoided at all costs". Comics journalist Cliff Biggers of Comic Shop News called the series "one of the biggest train wrecks in comics history." Iann Robinson called All Star Batman and Robin "a comic series that just spirals deeper and deeper into the abyss of unreadable", and that, "Miller has erased all the good he did for Batman with The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One". When All Star Batman and Robin was reprinted in the UK by Panini Comics under the Batman Legends banner, there was much criticism for how the anthology comic was marketed to children on the Irish radio talkshow Liveline with a member of the Irish Rape Crisis Centre speaking on-air, criticising the explicit content of the comic book.
Some of Miller's works have been accused of lacking humanity, particularly in regard to the overabundance of prostitutes portrayed in Sin City. When it was released in 2008, Miller's film adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit met with largely negative reviews, earning a metascore of only 30/100 at the review aggregation site Metacritic.com.
His cartoonist influence includes Will Eisner, Jerry Robinson, Dick Sprang, Neal Adams, Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Alex Toth, Frank Frazetta, Joe Kubert, Jordi Bernet, Johnny Craig, Milton Caniff, Wally Wood, Hugo Pratt, Frank Robbins, William Gaines, José Antonio Muñoz and James Kochalka.
Miller has stated that his influence includes the writing of Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.
Outside of the comic and political circuit, his influence includes art historian Kenneth Clark, and the animation by Fleischer Studios.
Frank Miller has appeared in five films in small roles, dying in each.
Frank Miller also appeared in an episode of the television series Moonlighting as a customer at a box office.[citation needed]
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