EXCLUSIVE: Legendary comic writer Frank Miller talks career, life, and “Dark Knight Returns” cover

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2 жыл бұрын

Legendary comic writer and artist Frank Miller sat down with Heritage Auctions Communications Director Robert Wilonsky to discuss his career and his original cover art for "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1" -- which is up for sale in the upcoming Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction #7274 happening June 16-19, 2022.
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@Hydrus96 Жыл бұрын

Frank Miller changed comics forever with Dark Knight Returns and Daredevil. He is a living LEGEND

@SebastianTinajero 11 ай бұрын

“When I’m working on it this stuff is real to me, it’s real as it can be” this is why Franks work is powerful and at times transcends this medium.

@6Atomic6Rooster6 23 күн бұрын

This man is an absolute genius.

@GeorgeSearsSolidusSnake 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to see him looking way healthier than recent years. Great in depth interview.

@txmoney Ай бұрын

So many fond memories of that period. What a great time for comic books. Between Frank Miller and Alan Moore, my world was blown. It started with DKR #1. I bought a copy. Treasured it. Never sold it. And the other day, I got back that exact issue after submitting it to CGC. I got it signed by both Klaus Janson and Frank Miller. After thirty eight years, I now have that original copy, bought when I was 18 years old, in an autographed 9.8.

@briannorman952 Жыл бұрын

This guy is a comic writer icon. I’ve always loved his artwork on the Daredevil series.

@castrojr.971 Жыл бұрын

Love hearing this man talk

@chazkhaira6621 11 ай бұрын

The Dark Knight Returns is for me the best Batman story. Frank Milller is a comic book legend

@jakebutler3744 2 жыл бұрын

I salute you, Frank.

@uglyewok6715 Жыл бұрын

Dark Knight Returns was groundbreaking and changed the possibilities of the medium.

@djo-dji6018 5 ай бұрын

No, it only greatly influenced superhero comics. The comic medium itself had already shown its endless possibilities all around the world.

@mrdigit3353 Жыл бұрын

w/ frank miller, you can count on getting great pacing, good stories, and "pushing the envelope" type approach to layout, use of blacks, and just creating the comic in general. i appreciate his hard work making all these books, ive enjoyed most of them,.....

@Dudemania3000 2 жыл бұрын

The Iconic Dark Knight Returns Artwork ended up selling for $2,400,000 (with Buyers Premium)!!!!

@MrSophistication 2 жыл бұрын

Love that police/ambulance sirens are making an appearance in the interview...hey, this is Miller what did you expect

@HeritageAuctions 2 жыл бұрын

We thought so, too!

@gettinglostincomics 2 жыл бұрын

Yeaaah, new FM interview 💪

@christianoverfield6956 2 жыл бұрын

FM remains the man yesterday, today, foe-evah.

@charliebronson1274 Жыл бұрын

Legend. I salute you.

@StoicMadman Жыл бұрын

Awesome interview! thanks

@blakemcnamara9105 Жыл бұрын

There are so many more interesting questions this guy could've asked him. He gave him too much praise and asked him too many of the same questions. I would've asked him more about his inspiration for certain details and just about political satire and whatnot.

@joshuamcchristian5365 6 ай бұрын

I love Frank’s work and I’m always down to hear him talk about his work, but I’m honestly over the DKR talk. His catalogue is pretty deep, especially as a comic writer. I would have loved to hear about his time working with Geoff Darrow, or his thought process while he was developing Sin City. The interviews almost never touch on his independent work. The interviewers have only read his Batman work and it shows.

@JorgeVelezMusic 9 ай бұрын

Excellent interview. Say what you will about his politics, recent work, etc his '80s work from Daredevil to Batman:Year One is the stuff of legend. No hyperbole. i was buying these comics as they appeared and each one was thrilling, fresh and inspiring.

@LED3333 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment!

@loboblast1 2 жыл бұрын

When the DK books 1st came out. I actually could not afford the $2.95 price. Mom was only able to give me a $5-10 budget. Unfortunatley for me, I chose the .75 cent comics back then. It wasn't until the 4th book came out that I decided to pull the trigger. Today it's still the only one I have from the original series.

@DelightLovesMovies 2 жыл бұрын

He's going to get so much money for that cover art.

@AlanSmitheeman 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I could see it going for a million. There are three other covers as well, but this one is the best known because it was the first of four issues.

@TheZooropaBaby 2 жыл бұрын

I dont think he's making anything considering he's not the one selling it

@anthonynegron 11 ай бұрын

This is my first time ever hearing Frank Miller wow. I always pictured him to have a deep ass voice like Alan Moore

@antoinerossignol9355 10 ай бұрын

He had a deeper voice a few years back ... his health seems to affect it ... watch sin city movie extras, he's very interesting

@col403 2 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic

@barriolimbas Жыл бұрын

I'll be honest, thought it was Alan Moore posing with a DKR picture. Remembered Miller's intro way back in DKR 10th Anniv, wonder if Frank Miller still thinks of Batman as this older hero figure, unlike say Spidey. A question us older fans also ask ourselves when we're approaching Batman's DKR age.

@rasheedknox2140 11 ай бұрын

Ok good interviewing sir 🍻

@AceLM92 8 ай бұрын

I wish I had seen this one it first came out. I noticed that Frank briefly mentioned the work of Hugo Pratt, but it never really seems to come up in any other interviews that I am aware of. That's a topic I wish I could hear more of him discussing.

@BigggHead Жыл бұрын

Hell yes

@LuisDiazArtist 5 ай бұрын

The DKR silhouette I think is inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger's Atlas pose which is based off the greek statue. A classic powerful pose. FM is a master of the silhouette.

@AsgersWeb Жыл бұрын

20:09 Great response ngl

@TheArkman360 Ай бұрын

Wow, Frank Miller sounds nothing like I expected.

@stonecold3697 11 ай бұрын

Didn't know Bill Goldberg was into comics

@PhysGraffiti 11 ай бұрын

John Byrne inspired Carrie Kelly - very deep!

@mancavetheater1240 2 жыл бұрын

All star batman and ROBIN the boy wonder, my #2 favorite depiction of such a troubled and violent character, who should have been a VILLIAN!

@AsgersWeb Жыл бұрын

24:35 Did the guy teach his kid to read with The Dark Knight Returns. I'm gonna show my future kid Se7en as their first movie.

@LuisDiazArtist 5 ай бұрын

I mean Seven is way more engrosing and potentially traumatizing than lines printed on paper. That said kids have a way of dealing with the things they see. Sometimes ignoring somethings only to understand them much later. I was more disturbed by The Killing Joke around the time when I read both of them in junior high.

@AsgersWeb 5 ай бұрын

@@LuisDiazArtistIt's true that seeing something on the screen is more visceral, but It's more so that if you read it to the kid. DKReturns isn't very violent by modern comics standards, it's just the amount of dark stuff in it like Swasticas on a woman's tits, Bruce being a psychologically disturbed individual etc.

@FirstLast-qb9iq 2 ай бұрын

I never understood what happened with frank millers health. Cancer? Alcoholism?

@lotsalube 9 ай бұрын

A great writer/artist-shame about the all-star batman & robin series, as it wasn't finished.

@miamimagicians Жыл бұрын

Todd M and miller greatest ever

@djo-dji6018 5 ай бұрын

Miller is a much better artist and writer. McFarlane is a very good business man.

@josefserf1926 Жыл бұрын

There are no geniuses writing comics, but if there are, Frank Miller is one.

@outlawtupac 8 ай бұрын

+ Alan Moore of course :-)

@djo-dji6018 5 ай бұрын

@@outlawtupac The word genius may apply to Miller but not to Moore.

@outlawtupac 5 ай бұрын

@@djo-dji6018 Alan Moore is more of a writer than Miller (who is often too pulpy/prose/on the nose). Are you at all familiar with Alan‘s work? Have you ever read From Hell, his Swamp Thing run or Watchmen? If you did you wouldn’t reply the way you have. I love Miller, but from a writers point of view Alan is clearly more advanced…

@joncarroll2040 5 ай бұрын

@@outlawtupacand Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, and Will Eisner (who Miller would be the first to tell you was his superior).

@BigSmiley0TV 4 ай бұрын

Amazing writer and visual artist as well. Learned so much about drawing by studying his work

@NickGuy0320 2 жыл бұрын

Interviews like this are so BORING oh look ANOTHER interview where they ask him the same questions about DKR and he gives the same answers hes been giving for decades. Why does no one ever ask him these in depth questions about his intent and purpose with his more controversial works like DKSA and ASBAR? We already know all his thoughts abt DKR. Time to move on

@Rebecca1 Жыл бұрын

I agree, I more want to hear him talk about Sin City

@nathannathan44 Жыл бұрын

Just shows that it's timeless