In 1991, when Miller introduced Sin City in the comic book pages of Dark Horse Presents, he brought crime fiction back to an industry dominated for decades by superheroes, and his groundbreaking brand of neo-noir, complete with bad guys, badder girls, and the baddest cars, hit like a bulldozer, changing the course for generations of cartoonists, authors, and filmmakers to come - and, most importantly, for the millions of readers who braved the boundaries of Basin City and never once looked back. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.“The Night is hot as Hell.” With these six scrappy words, comics wunderkind Frank Miller ushered in a scrappy new hero in a scrappy new series with a scrappy young publishing company, breaking all the conventional rules and in the process revolutionizing the world of so-called funnybooks. In 2005, with the hugely successful Sin City movie release, co-directed with Robert Rodriguez, Miller added a director's credit to his already impressive resum� and introduced his characters to an entirely new legion of fans worldwide. In 2001, Miller returned to the superhero genre with the best-selling Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again.įrank Miller continues to push the medium into new territories, exploring subject matter previously untouched in comics, and his work consistently receives the highest praise from his industry peers and readers everywhere. His multi-award-winning 300 series from Dark Horse, a telling of history's most glorious and underreported battle, was brought to full-blooded life in 1998. Readers responded enthusiastically to Miller's tough-as-leather noir drama, creating an instant sales success. It was on Daredevil that Miller gained notoriety, honed his storytelling abilities, and took his first steps toward becoming a giant in the comics medium.Īfter Daredevil came Ronin, a science-fiction samurai drama that seamlessly melded Japanese and French comics traditions into the American mainstream and after that, the groundbreaking and acclaimed Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One, both of which not only redefined the classic character, but also revitalized the industry itself.įinally able to fulfill his dream of doing an all-out, straight-ahead crime series, Miller introduced Sin City in 1991.
Frank Miller began his career in comics in the late 1970s, first drawing then writing Daredevil for Marvel Comics, creating what was essentially a crime comic disguised as a superhero book.
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