Introduction Frank Miller is one of the most influential people in American comics. His work, while still quite young, on Marvel's Daredevil in the early 1980s gained him celebrity and helped to generate the revisionist movement in American super-heroics. His 1983-1984 mini-series for DC Comics, entitled Ronin, was a trailblazer for creator control and better printing processes. In 1986, Miller unleashed a series of works that were revolutionary and that still remain widely influential: his seminal The Dark Knight Returns; his collaborations with David Mazzucchelli on Daredevil's Born Again storyline and then on Batman's Year One; and his collaborations with Bill Sienkiewicz on the Daredevil graphic novel, Love and War, and on the highly experimental Elektra: Assassin. Following this, Miller moved to Hollywood and worked on the clever Robocop 2, released in 1990; Miller also worked on Robocop 3, released in 1993. 1990 saw his delayed masterpiece, Elektra Lives Again; 1993 saw Miller return to Daredevil with The Man Without Fear, illustrated by John Romita, Jr. Miller also collaborated with Geof Darrow on Hard Boiled and The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. He collaborated with Dave Gibbons on the Martha Washington series, beginning with Give Me Liberty. 1991 saw the debut of Miller's long-running independent series, the stylistic black-and-white series Sin City; several mini-series, one-shots, and graphic novels would follow. In 1993 and 1994, Miller wrote an issue of Spawn for Image Comics, returning to write Spawn / Batman, his first work with Batman since the mid-1980s. In 1997, his Bad Boy one-shot was published. And in 1998, he took a break from his continuing Sin City work to create 300, a beautiful historical work about Spartans during the Persian Wars. 2001 saw Miller's much-celebrated return to Batman with the very successful The Dark Knight Strikes Again. He remains a vital voice in American comics, and even his more obscure work is very much worth following. Miller's miscellaneous projects are as follows: Ronin Martha Washington Short Works 300 On Frank Miller Following these is a list of other sites of interest.

Ronin Ronin was a six-issue mini-series, published in the prestige format by DC in 1983. The series is remembered as historically important for creative freedom: Miller was given unprecedented creative freedom for a mainstream publisher. Ronin is also remembered for its format: it was the first series published in the prestige format, books of 48 pages on thicker, slicker paper -- in a time when most comics were still newsprint.
Moreover, the series is remembered for Miller experimenting with panel constructions, pacing, and artistic style. Unburdened by the restraints of work-for-hire on company-owned super-heroes, as well as the limitations of newsprint, Miller formulated a new artistic style, distinct from his earlier

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The story of Martha Washington, always written by Frank Miller and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, began in Give Me Liberty, a four-issue prestige-format mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics in 1992. Begun in conversations between Miller and Gibbons in the mid-to-late 1980s, in the wake of their stellar successes on

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	Martha Washington Saves the World	collects Martha Washington Saves the World #1-3; published in 1999	1

Tales to Offend was a delightful little book, a single issue with two tales of the delightfully horrible space adventurer Lance Blastoff -- as well as a

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	Tales to Offend #1	contains two stories featuring the delightfully horrible space adventurer Lance Blastoff, plus the 8-page Sin City tale "Daddy's Little Girl"; features a cover in the EC style; cover-dated July 1997	0
	Bad Boy	larger than magazine size; published by Oni Press	0

300 was published by Dark Horse Comics as a five-issue mini-series in 1998. Featuring an artistic style closest to Miller's

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Larger Version Available	300	collects 300 #1-5; twice the width as normal comics, allowing Miller's double-page spreads to breathe beautifully on a single, wide page; hardcover [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1

Books on American comics and scholarly study of the same, once quite rare, were steadily on the rise when The Comics Journal, the longest-running sophisticated magazine on American comics, announced with little fanfare that it would begin a series of books entitled The Comics Journal Library that would collect the interviews from the journal's history, organized by creator with some new material. Though the first volume was on Jack Kirby, the second was devoted to Frank Miller and represents a significant source for studying Miller's body of work.

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	The Comics Journal Library, Volume Two: Frank Miller	collects interviews from The Comics Journal #70 (from 1981), #101 (from 1985), #118 (from 1987), and two separate interviews from #209 (from 1998), along with a new interview for this volume; the 1987 interview, which concerns censorship, has three similarly-themed sidebars, (1) excerpts of Miller's statements from a panel conversation published in The Comics Journal #77, (2) a letter by Miller from #97, and (3) a short interview of Miller from #113; Elvis Mitchell introduction; includes a career overview by Larry Rodman; uses much art from Miller's work, including covers and a few obscure pieces (including pages of movie scripts) available nowhere else; published by Fantagraphics Books in 2003	1

On Frank Miller Chronology An annotated, hyperlinked chronology of Frank Miller's work. The Continuity Pages: Sin City The continuity page for Frank Miller's Sin City. The Continuity Pages: Daredevil The continuity page for Marvel's Daredevil, also incorporating Elektra, including Miller's seminal work on those characters. The Continuity Pages: Batman The continuity page for DC's Batman, including Miller's revolutionary work with the character. "The Cult of the Writer" An essay by Julian Darius on the role of the writer in comic book history.	Off-Site Please be aware that the continued quality, and even existence, of these sites cannot be guaranteed. The Frank Miller Resource Limited but useful information. The Complete Works of Dark Knight Returns artist Frank Miller An index.
PersianCaesar The website of author Julian Darius, creator of The Continuity Pages.
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