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Frank Miller
Frank Miller is an American comic book creator, screenwriter, and director known for his comic book stories and graphic novels. He wrote Daredevil from 1979 to 1983, and again in 1986, with the Daredevil: Born Again arc. For Daredevil, he created the femme fatale Elektra and the ninja villains the Hand. Subsequently, he wrote influential Batman stories: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Batman: Y…
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entertainment · American writer, artist, and film director (born 1957) · film director · writer · screenwriter · novelist · actor · executive producer · film actor · comics artist · comics writer · artist · also Frank Miller, Miller
Born 27 January 1957 · Q207676
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2026· 3 entries
“People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don”
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Public attention spiked: 3,285 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 1,052, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 1 entry
At the Angelika Film Center in New York City
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2022· 1 entry
It was reported that Miller was launching an American comic book publishing company titled Frank Miller Presents (FMP), of which Miller would serve as president and editor-in-chief, andDan DiDio as publisher and chief op
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2017· 1 entry
Miller announced he was writing a Superman: Year One project with artwork by John Romita Jr
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2016· 1 entry
Miller and Azzarello also co-wrote the graphic novel, The Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade with art by John Romita Jr
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2015· 3 entries
At San Diego Comic-Con, Miller was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame
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Awarded Will Eisner Hall of Fame (2015).
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Was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
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2007· 2 entries
Miller stated that "There was a lot of interference in the writing process
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“There was a lot of interference in the writing process. It wasn”
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2005· 1 entry
Taking on the writing duties of All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder, a series set inside of what Miller describes as the "Dark Knight Universe," and drawn by Jim Lee
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2003· 1 entry
Miller's screenplay for RoboCop 2 was adapted by Steven Grant for Avatar Press's Pulsaar imprint
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Best foreign work published in Spain for 300 (2000).
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist (1999).
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Retelling the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta
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It became an animated series on Fox Kids
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1995· 1 entry
Miller and Darrow collaborated again on Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, published as a two-part miniseries by Dark Horse
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1994· 1 entry
Miller became one of the founding members of the comic imprint Legend, under which many of his Sin City works were released via Dark Horse Comics
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Eisner Award for Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team (1993).
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Awarded Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist (1993).
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist (1991).
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Miller started work on his first Sin City story
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1988· 1 entry
Remains in print, and is one of DC's best selling books
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Kirby Award for Best Art Team (1987).
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Kirby Award for Best Writer/Artist (single or team) (1986).
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DC Comics released the writer–penciller Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, a four-issue miniseries printed in what the publisher called "prestige format"—squarebound, rather than stapled; on heavy-stock paper rath
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1985· 1 entry
DC Comics named Miller as one of the honorees in the company's 50th-anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great
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1984· 1 entry
Through 300 in 1998) and the backgrounds to the 2006 movie 300
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Inkpot Award (1981).
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1957· 2 entries
Born 1957-01-27.
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And raised in Montpelier, Vermont, the fifth of seven children of a nurse mother and a carpenter/electrician father
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