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 resumé and introduced his characters to an entirely new legion of fans worldwide. Frank Millers Big Damn Sin City brings together Miller and Lynn Varleys seven hardboiled tales - The Hard Goodbye, A Dame to Kill For, The Big Fat Kill, The Yellow Bastard, Family Values, Booze, Broads & Bullets and Hell and Back- in one 1,344-page volume that Dark Horse contends is 'suitable for home defense. 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. Most excitingly for Sin City fans may be Frank Miller’s Big Damn Sin City a 1,344-page oversized hardcover, collecting all seven of Miller’s original Sin City stories to date.

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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