With a vocation that includes specified legendary works arsenic The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil: Born Again, 300, and Sin City, Frank Miller could easy remainder connected his laurels by now. But if anything, Miller has been busier than ever successful caller years, including spearheading a caller publishing task called Frank Miller Presents. And present Miller fans person an wholly antithetic caller task to look guardant to - a memoir called Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling.
IGN tin exclusively uncover the screen creation for Push the Wall, which, of course, is illustrated by Miller himself. Check it retired below:
Push the Wall is simply a memoir precise overmuch successful the vein of Stephen King's On Writing successful that it's portion autobiography and portion reflection connected the creation of making comics. Even arsenic Miller recounts his aboriginal beingness and vocation struggles, helium besides presents readers with a bid of lessons connected the originative process. The publication besides incldues 12 full-color illustrations from Miller's extended backmost catalog.
Here's the authoritative logline for the book:
Frank Miller is our top surviving comic publication writer and artist.
Frank Miller shares his life, and through, his creator process. Miller’s creator power is evident successful truthful precise overmuch of our fashionable culture, possibly astir notably with Batman—every movie adaptation from the past forty years has been influenced by Miller’s enactment with the acheronian knight.
Simply, Frank Miller has transformed the mode comics are told.
Here, Frank’s premix of autobiographical lessons evokes Patti Smith’s Just Kids arsenic it weaves his struggles arsenic a seventeen-year-old kid caller from Vermont into a seedy 1970’s New York City with his eventual occurrence connected reimagining Daredevil and Wolverine. From determination to Miller’s rescue and revitalization of Batman, to his clip successful Hollywood, the Sin City comics and movie adaptations helium would codirect, and the retelling of the Spartans’ past basal successful 300. Miller, by perpetually challenging himself arsenic an creator and writer, connected his terms, built an iconoclastic career.
With implicit a twelve illustrations of Miller’s art, Push the Wall is the enactment of his career—It is simply a masterclass arsenic it encapsulates his beingness successful sixteen lessons for the aspiring originative reader.
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Push the Wall volition beryllium released successful bookstores connected July 14, 2026. You tin preorder the publication connected Amazon.
For much connected Miller's legacy, find retired wherefore fans are inactive debating his iconic The Dark Knight Returns #1 cover.
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