This article is about Frank Miller, the comic book writer and artist. There is a separate article about Frank Miller, the Premier of Ontario.

Frank Miller (born 1957 in Olney, Maryland) is an American writer and artist best known for his film noir-style comic book stories.

Raised in Montpelier, Vermont, Miller became a professional comic artist and worked for a number of major publishers including Gold Key, DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He gained attention from a two issue story for Marvel's The Spectacular Spider-Man. He was soon made the regular penciller on Daredevil and quickly took on the writing chores on the title as well. In collaboration with inker Klaus Janson, Miller attracted a growing number of fans, critical acclaim and the respect of industry peers. During this run on Daredevil, Miller created the female ninja assassin character Elektra, one of the characters with which he is most strongly associated. Since then, his take on Daredevil has remained the dominant one extending to the 2003 film adaptation which uses many elements of Miller's stories.

Miller is also known for producing his own idiosyncratic creator-owned works. Ronin , a science fiction samurai, action story was his first of many collaborations with his wife Lynn Varley . Miller has alternated between handling (and redefining) well-known company icons such as Batman and Daredevil and creating his own works such as Give Me Liberty with Dave Gibbons and Hard Boiled with Geoff Darrow . Sin City is his first completely solo venture, a series of stark black-and-white crime stories published by Dark Horse Comics. Colorist Lynn Varley has joined him for much of his work, including The Dark Knight Returns and 1998's 300.

Miller's most well-known work, both inside and outside of the comic book industry, is The Dark Knight Returns, a dark tale of Batman set in the near future. It depicted Batman as a violent, somewhat unhinged vigilante, poles apart from the camp clown of the 1960s TV series. Miller's interpretation has dominated the character for nearly two decades since, informing Tim Burton's 1989 film version, and graphic novels such as Alan Moore's The Killing Joke and Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum.

Miller has also written a number of screenplays, most notably those for RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3. After RoboCop 3, Miller stated that he would never again allow Hollywood to make movie adaptations of his comics, being disgusted with how almost none of his ideas made it into the final versions of the movies although his name was prominently displayed in the credits. Later Miller worked with Dark Horse Comics, who own the rights to create comics based on RoboCop, to create a comic version of Robocop 3 based on Miller's own script. Miller's stance to movie adaptations changed after Robert Rodriguez made a short film from one of Miller's Sin City short stories without Miller's knowledge and then showed it to him. Miller was so pleased with the result that he greenlighted a full-length Sin City movie. The movie is currently being filmed, using Miller's original comics in place of scripts and storyboards.

Quote

"I figured Daredevil must be Catholic because only a Catholic could be both an attorney and a vigilante."

External links

• "The Complete Frank Miller Website" http://www.moebiusgraphics.com