Frank Miller is another artist/ writer I love.
After blowing up in the 80's writing and drawing Daredevil and Batman classics, Miller took an unexpected turn in his comic career: He started to make creator owned work. Stuff like "Hard Boiled" and "Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot", as well as his more popular series "Sin City", really helped make independent comics publishers like Dark Horse some serious credibility.
His dark and gritty noir series had all kinds of gorgeous pictures in it, but his prose could rival even the best pulp ficrion from the 30's.
In the 00's he made (semi) successful transition into film, co-directing the film adaption of Sin City, as well as lending a helping hand in the production of the hit move "300" based off another of his own comics, which was in turn inspired by a movie he saw as a child. But recently, he started making products of questionable quality, ("All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder", the film adaptation of Will Eisner's "The Spirit") and becoming a lightning rod for controversy (his yet-to-be-published propaganda piece "Holly Terror Batman", which has been re-appropriated for a new, totally non-Batman related story, as well as the aforementioned "All-Star" series).
As a die-hard fan of Miller from as far back as I can remember, I can't wait for this guy's next porject. I just hope it is a return to the noir Miller of old and not the "edgy" and "radical" new and strange direction he seems to have taken as of late. I would hate for a legend like this to end his career on a sour note.
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