Frank Miller

He married colourist Lynn Varley who coloured several of his famous works which include “Ronin”, “300” and so on. After their divorce in 2005, he has developed a romantic relationship with Kimberly Halliburton Cox.

Belonging to an Irish Catholic family, Frank Miller is the fifth of seven children of his carpenter father and nurse mother. Born in Olney, Maryland, USA, he grew up in Montpelier, Vermont.

He was fond of comic books during his childhood days. Later, he developed an interest towards graphic entertainment, detective fictions and films. He was much influenced by the works of Jack Kirby, Wallace Wood and Alfred Hitchcock.

‘The Twilight Zone’, an American television anthology series comic book featured his comical artwork and this series is considered as his first published work. But he did not receive any credit for this work.

After working for Western Publishing for a brief period, he joined DC Comics. There he created drawing stories for titles like “Weird War Tales” and also worked on a piece for an anthology collection of Christmas stories. In this piece, for the first time, he presented the character of Batman.

He also worked for the six-page “The Greatest Story Never Told”, written by Paul Kupperberg. In September 1978 issue of “Unknown Soldier”, his work “The Edge of History” appeared.

After joining Marvel Comics, he created comics work on the 17-page story “The Master Assassin of Mars, Part 3” in “John Carter, Warlord of Mars” for November 1978 issue. He also worked there as a regular fill-in and cover artist; his job was to create comic works on a variety of titles.

At that time, he made drawing for “Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man” for February-March 1979 issue. He included the character of Daredevil in this issue. This issue of Daredevil earned him recognition as a comic artist. At that time, Denny O’Neil joined Marvel Comics as its editor.

Along with writer Chris Claremont, he created the miniseries “Wolverine” for September-December 1982 issue. This series of “Wolverine”, a fictional superhero got instant success and secured his place as a popular artist of comic stories.

In 1986, his portrayal of Batman in his groundbreaking series “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” reflects his modern approach towards this fictional character. The rising popularity of this superhero brought him critical acclaim.

In 1987, along with artist David Mazzuccelli, he published the four -part storyline “Batman : Year One” that earned him wide recognition.

In 1990, together with artist Dave Gibbons, he published “Give Me Liberty”, sci-fi parable.

In 1991, he worked on his “Sin City” story .He drew the entire story in black and white to highlight its film noir style. In 1995, his first story of “Sin City” appeared under the name “The Hard Goodbye”.