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

[@SebastianTinajero]

“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.

[@GeorgeSearsSolidusSnake]

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

[@Hydrus96]

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

[@michaelwynne622]

DaMn SkippY.

[@txmoney]

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]

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

[@WA5ON1]

writer aand drawer

[@castrojr.971]

Love hearing this man talk

[@uglyewok6715]

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

[@djo-dji6018]

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

[@Iamthegtard]

Incredible interview ❤ Uncle Frank

[@6Atomic6Rooster6]

This man is an absolute genius.

[@StoicMadman]

Awesome interview! thanks

[@jakebutler3744]

I salute you, Frank.

[@MrSophistication]

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

[@HeritageAuctions]

We thought so, too!

[@JorgeVelezMusic]

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]

Thank you for your comment!

[@joshuamcchristian5365]

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.

[@chazkhaira6621]

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

[@michaelwynne622]

Year One and DKR are the fucking apex of the Character. Rest is tinsel .

[@chethasgb1962]

The G.O.A.T

[@gettinglostincomics]

Yeaaah, new FM interview 💪

[@mrdigit3353]

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,.....

[@charliebronson1274]

Legend. I salute you.

[@Dudemania3000]

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

[@michaelwynne622]

Worth Every Penny.

[@rasheedknox2140]

Ok good interviewing sir 🍻

[@anthonynegron]

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

[@antoinerossignol9355]

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

[@AceLM92]

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.

[@christianoverfield6956]

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

[@DelightLovesMovies]

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

[@AlanSmitheeman]

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]

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

[@LuisDiazArtist]

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.

[@barriolimbas]

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.

[@loboblast1]

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.

[@col403]

This is fantastic

[@tobydelk2922]

The Dark Knight Returns is the greatest. If not, the one of the greatest comic books of all time. I absolutely love Frank's work. I know any more people think Frank Miller is some fascist but really he is and he's really nice guy. I think they just kind of like to hate on him because he wrote a really great dark gritty realistic Batman comic and for that fact, I love that it influenced and he brought back The Dark Knight to where he should be exactly where he should have been from the get-go a dark realistic character and everything from Tim Burton movies to the Christopher Nolan films to the Zack Snyder films are all influenced by The Dark Knight Returns.

[@blakemcnamara9105]

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.

[@BigggHead]

Hell yes

[@AsgersWeb]

20:09 Great response ngl

[@AsgersWeb]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@stonecold3697]

Didn't know Bill Goldberg was into comics

[@NickGuy0320]

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]

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

[@nathannathan44]

Just shows that it's timeless

[@TheArkman360]

Wow, Frank Miller sounds nothing like I expected.

[@natwolf687]

Good job not showing the cover you questioned him about.

[@jozefserf2024]

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

[@outlawtupac]

+ Alan Moore of course :-)

[@djo-dji6018]

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

[@outlawtupac]

@@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]

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

[@BigSmiley0TV]

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

[@FirstLast-qb9iq]

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

[@mancavetheater1240]

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!

[@michaelwynne622]

The boy hostage lol

[@johnhorchler667]

Is he okay you guys writing makes it sound like something has happened 🤔

[@PhysGraffiti]

John Byrne inspired Carrie Kelly - very deep!

[@lotsalube]

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

[@michaelwynne622]

Should finish it with Art Adams and John Byrne .

[@miamimagicians]

Todd M and miller greatest ever

[@djo-dji6018]

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

[@PhysGraffiti]

John Byrne inspired Carrie Kelly - very deep!

[@PhysGraffiti]

John Byrne inspired Carrie Kelly - very deep!