It took Miller two years to hone his craft until, finally, in 1978, seeing how much his drawing had improved, Adams got him a job working on short story for the Twilight Zones comic.Īnd so began Frank Miller’s career, inspired by the aforementioned Neal Adams and authors like Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Will Eisner and Hugo Pratt. He kept in touch with Adams and managed to strike a deal with him: he would come to Adams’ studio every day to learn, but would not receive a commission for any work he did. So, aged 21, he moved to New York, America’s comics capital.
At this point, most people would have given up and gone home, but Miller didn’t have a plan B. Adams said Miller’s portfolio was “horrible”. In the second half of the 1970s, Miller showed his first portfolio of drawings to Neil Adams, the legendary comic book artist whose credits include Batman.
Illustrated panel by famous cartoonist Frank Miller, all rights reserved. His dream had always been to create comics, but he struggled at first because his drawings were still too immature. It was during Miller’s somewhat lonely adolescence that he developed a passion for drawing. Miller was born in 1957 in Olney, Maryland, but grew up in Montpelier, Vermont. His noir style might not fit conventional ideas of beauty, but it has always marked him out as one of the most original authors of all time. His ideas have revolutionised the world of superheroes in particular and comics in general. – DC and the Batman revolution: the Dark Knight Returnsįrank Miller is one of the best-loved and most influential comic book writers of recent times. – The early eighties at Marvel: Daredevil and Elektra The life and work of Frank Miller, the great innovator and creator of noir comics who revolutionised the Batman character and created masterpieces like Sin City and 300.
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